Friday Squid Blogging: A New Explanation of Squid Camouflage
New research: An associate professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Northeastern University, Deravi’s recently published paper in the Journal…
Security
My Writings Are in the LibGen AI Training Corpus
The Atlantic has a search tool that allows you to search for specific works in the “LibGen” database of copyrighted…
NCSC Releases Post-Quantum Cryptography Timeline
The UK’s National Computer Security Center (part of GCHQ) released a timeline—also see their blog post—for migration to quantum-computer-resistant cryptography.…
Implementing Zero Trust Security in Healthcare Cloud Environments
Think about the sheer volume of data exchanged in a hospital every second — from electronic health records to real-time…
Weekly Update 444
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Critical GitHub Attack
This is serious: A sophisticated cascading supply chain attack has compromised multiple GitHub Actions, exposing critical CI/CD secrets across tens…
Top 10 dynamic application security testing (DAST) tools for 2025
What is DAST and how does it work? Dynamic application security testing (DAST) is a cybersecurity assessment method that analyzes…
Data Leaks and AI Agents: Why Your APIs Could Be Exposing Sensitive Information
Most organizations are using AI in some way today, whether they know it or not. Some are merely beginning to…
Navigating the Shared Responsibility Model in Cloud Security
The shared responsibility model is fundamental to cloud security, defining how security obligations are divided between cloud service providers and…
Is Security Human Factors Research Skewed Towards Western Ideas and Habits?
Really interesting research: “How WEIRD is Usable Privacy and Security Research?” by Ayako A. Hasegawa Daisuke Inoue, and Mitsuaki Akiyama:…