Bluetooth Flaw Allows Remote Unlocking of Digital Locks
Locks that use Bluetooth Low Energy to authenticate keys are vulnerable to remote unlocking. The research focused on Teslas, but the exploit is generalizable. In a video shared with Reuters, NCC Group...
View ArticleThe Onion on Google Map Surveillance
“Google Maps Adds Shortcuts through Houses of People Google Knows Aren’t Home Right Now.” Excellent satire.
View ArticleFriday Squid Blogging: Squid Street Art
Pretty. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here.
View ArticleForging Australian Driver’s Licenses
The New South Wales digital driver’s license has multiple implementation flaws that allow for easy forgeries. This file is encrypted using AES-256-CBC encryption combined with Base64 encoding. A...
View ArticleThe Justice Department Will No Longer Charge Security Researchers with...
Following a recent Supreme Court ruling, the Justice Department will no longer prosecute “good faith” security researchers with cybercrimes: The policy for the first time directs that good-faith...
View ArticleManipulating Machine-Learning Systems through the Order of the Training Data
Yet another adversarial ML attack: Most deep neural networks are trained by stochastic gradient descent. Now “stochastic” is a fancy Greek word for “random”; it means that the training data are fed...
View ArticleMalware-Infested Smart Card Reader
Brian Krebs has an interesting story of a smart ID card reader with a malware-infested Windows driver, and US government employees who inadvertently buy and use them. But by all accounts, the potential...
View ArticleFriday Squid Blogging: Squid Bites Diver
I agree; the diver deserved it. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here.
View ArticleSecurity and Human Behavior (SHB) 2022
Today is the second day of the fifteenth Workshop on Security and Human Behavior, hosted by Ross Anderson and Alice Hutchings at the University of Cambridge. After two years of having this conference...
View ArticleThe Limits of Cyber Operations in Wartime
Interesting paper by Lennart Maschmeyer: “The Subversive Trilemma: Why Cyber Operations Fall Short of Expectations“: Abstract: Although cyber conflict has existed for thirty years, the strategic...
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