Ireland Proposes Giving Police New Digital Surveillance Powers
This is coming: The Irish government is planning to bolster its police’s ability to intercept communications, including encrypted messages, and…
Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid in the Star Trek Universe
Spock befriends a giant space squid in the comic Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: The Seeds of Salvation #5. As…
AIs are Getting Better at Finding and Exploiting Internet Vulnerabilities
Really interesting blog post from Anthropic: In a recent evaluation of AI models’ cyber capabilities, current Claude models can now…
Gmail Verified Blue Email Tick: What It Is & How to Get One
If you’ve ever noticed a blue checkmark next to a sender name in Gmail, you’ve seen Gmail’s verified sender signal…
Why AI Keeps Falling for Prompt Injection Attacks
Imagine you work at a drive-through restaurant. Someone drives up and says: “I’ll have a double cheeseburger, large fries, and…
Hackers Turn AWS Buckets into LastPass Phishing Lures to Steal Vault Credentials
Executive Summary An ongoing phishing campaign is impersonating LastPass and abusing Amazon S3–hosted URLs as the first redirect hop to…
Cisco Unified CM and Webex Security Alert: Active Zero-Day CVE-2026-20045 Fixed
Cisco has recently issued security updates to fix a critical vulnerability impacting several Unified Communications Manager (CM) products and Webex…
Internet Voting is Too Insecure for Use in Elections
No matter how many times we say it, the idea comes back again and again. Hopefully, this letter will hold…
Could ChatGPT Convince You to Buy Something?
Eighteen months ago, it was plausible that artificial intelligence might take a different path than social media. Back then, AI’s…
AI-Powered Surveillance in Schools
It all sounds pretty dystopian: Inside a white stucco building in Southern California, video cameras compare faces of passersby against…