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April 15, 2024

In this issue:

  1. Improving C++
  2. Drones and the US Air Force
  3. AI and the Evolution of Social Media
  4. Cheating Automatic Toll Booths by Obscuring License Plates
  5. Public AI as an Alternative to Corporate AI
  6. Google Pays $10M in Bug Bounties in 2023
  7. Licensing AI Engineers
  8. On Secure Voting Systems
  9. Security Vulnerability in Saflok’s RFID-Based Keycard Locks
  10. Hardware Vulnerability in Apple’s M-Series Chips
  11. Lessons from a Ransomware Attack against the British Library
  12. Ross Anderson
  13. Magic Security Dust
  14. Declassified NSA Newsletters
  15. XZ Utils Backdoor
  16. Class-Action Lawsuit against Google’s Incognito Mode
  17. Surveillance by the New Microsoft Outlook App
  18. Maybe the Phone System Surveillance Vulnerabilities Will Be Fixed
  19. Security Vulnerability of HTML Emails
  20. US Cyber Safety Review Board on the 2023 Microsoft Exchange Hack
  21. In Memoriam: Ross Anderson, 1956-2024
  22. Backdoor in XZ Utils That Almost Happened
  23. Smuggling Gold by Disguising it as Machine Parts
  24. Upcoming Speaking Engagements

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March 15, 2024

In this issue:

  1. On the Insecurity of Software Bloat
  2. European Court of Human Rights Rejects Encryption Backdoors
  3. Microsoft Is Spying on Users of Its AI Tools
  4. Details of a Phone Scam
  5. New Image/Video Prompt Injection Attacks
  6. AIs Hacking Websites
  7. Apple Announces Post-Quantum Encryption Algorithms for iMessage
  8. China Surveillance Company Hacked
  9. A Cyber Insurance Backstop
  10. How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
  11. NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0
  12. LLM Prompt Injection Worm
  13. The Insecurity of Video Doorbells
  14. Surveillance through Push Notifications
  15. How Public AI Can Strengthen Democracy
  16. A Taxonomy of Prompt Injection Attacks
  17. Essays from the Second IWORD
  18. Using LLMs to Unredact Text
  19. Jailbreaking LLMs with ASCII Art
  20. Burglars Using Wi-Fi Jammers to Disable Security Cameras
  21. Automakers Are Sharing Driver Data with Insurers without Consent

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February 15, 2024

In this issue:

  1. Voice Cloning with Very Short Samples
  2. The Story of the Mirai Botnet
  3. Code Written with AI Assistants Is Less Secure
  4. Canadian Citizen Gets Phone Back from Police
  5. Speaking to the CIA’s Creative Writing Group
  6. Zelle Is Using My Name and Voice without My Consent
  7. AI Bots on X (Twitter)
  8. Side Channels Are Common
  9. Poisoning AI Models
  10. Quantum Computing Skeptics
  11. Chatbots and Human Conversation
  12. Microsoft Executives Hacked
  13. NSA Buying Bulk Surveillance Data on Americans without a Warrant
  14. New Images of Colossus Released
  15. CFPB’s Proposed Data Rules
  16. Facebook’s Extensive Surveillance Network
  17. A Self-Enforcing Protocol to Solve Gerrymandering
  18. David Kahn
  19. Deepfake Fraud
  20. Documents about the NSA’s Banning of Furby Toys in the 1990s
  21. Teaching LLMs to Be Deceptive
  22. On Software Liabilities
  23. No, Toothbrushes Were Not Used in a Massive DDoS Attack
  24. On Passkey Usability
  25. Molly White Reviews Blockchain Book
  26. A Hacker’s Mind is Out in Paperback
  27. Improving the Cryptanalysis of Lattice-Based Public-Key Algorithms
  28. Upcoming Speaking Engagements

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