Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Fishing in Peru
Peru has increased its squid catch limit. The article says “giant squid,” but they can’t possibly mean that. As usual,…
Security
Why Tehran’s Two-Tiered Internet Is So Dangerous
Iran is slowly emerging from the most severe communications blackout in its history and one of the longest in the…
Phishing Attacks Against People Seeking Programming Jobs
This is new. North Korean hackers are posing as company recruiters, enticing job candidates to participate in coding challenges. When…
How to Trademark Your Logo for a Verified Mark Certificate (VMC)
If you want your logo to appear next to your emails with a Verified Mark Certificate, one of the core…
LLMs Generate Predictable Passwords
LLMs are bad at generating passwords: There are strong noticeable patterns among these 50 passwords that can be seen easily:…
Serv-U Vulnerabilities Expose Systems to Root Compromise
SolarWinds has released updates to address four critical security flaws in its Serv-U file transfer software that, if successfully exploited,…
Zero-Day Unleashed: How Hackers Are Creeping Into Cisco SD-WAN Networks
Executive Summary A critical zero-day vulnerability in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, tracked as CVE-2026-20127, has been actively exploited by the…
Poisoning AI Training Data
All it takes to poison AI training data is to create a website: I spent 20 minutes writing an article…
Security Advisory: VMware Aria Operations Vulnerabilities May Lead to Remote Compromise
Broadcom has released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities in VMware Aria Operations, an IT operations management platform that monitors…
Is AI Good for Democracy?
Politicians fixate on the global race for technological supremacy between US and China. They debate geopolitical implications of chip exports,…