Friday Squid Blogging: Energy Converter Inspired by Squid

Engineers have invented a wave energy converter that works in the same way that squid propel themselves through the water.

Notice and Consent

New Research: Rebecca Lipman, "Online Privacy and the Invisible Market for Our Data.

Thinking about Intimate Surveillance

Law Professor Karen Levy writes about the rise of surveillance in our most intimate activities -- love, sex, romance -- and how it affects those…

Simultaneous Discovery of Vulnerabilities

In the conversation about zero-day vulnerabilities and whether "good" governments should disclose or hoard vulnerabilities, one of the critical…

The Importance of Strong Encryption to Security

Encryption keeps you safe. Encryption protects your financial details and passwords when you bank online.

Eavesdropping by the Foscam Security Camera

Brian Krebs has a really weird story about the build-in eavesdropping by the Chinese-made Foscam security camera: Imagine buying an internet-enabled…

Research on Balancing Privacy with Surveillance

Interesting research: Michael Kearns, Aaron Roth, Zhiewi Steven Wu, and Grigory Yaroslavtsev, "Private algorithms for the protected in social network…

The Ads vs. Ad Blockers Arms Race

For the past month or so, Forbes has been blocking browsers with ad blockers.

Practical TEMPEST Attack

Four researchers have demonstrated a TEMPEST attack against a laptop, recovering its keys by listening to its electrical emanations.

Security Vulnerability in gilbc DNS

Necurs.P2P - A New Hybrid Peer-to-Peer Botnet

Last week I received a tip about a sample displaying some indication that it could be peer-to-peer (a large amount of UDP traffic being sent to…

Necurs.P2P – A New Hybrid Peer-to-Peer Botnet

Last week I received a tip about a sample displaying some indication that it could be peer-to-peer (a large amount of UDP traffic being sent to…

Decrypting an iPhone for the FBI

Earlier this week, a federal magistrate ordered Apple to assist the FBI in hacking into the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters.

Friday Squid Blogging: Up Close and Personal with a Giant Squid

Fascinating story. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered....

Security Implications of Cash

I saw two related stories today. The first is about high-denomination currency.

Unleashing YARA – Part 2

In the first post of this series we uncovered YARA and demonstrated couple of use case that that can be used to justify the integration of this tool…

Underage Hacker Is behind Attacks against US Government

It's a teenager: British police have arrested a teenager who allegedly was behind a series of audacious -- and, for senior U.S.

Judge Demands that Apple Backdoor an iPhone

A judge has ordered that Apple bypass iPhone security in order for the FBI to attempt a brute-force password attack on an iPhone 5c used by one of…

Enabling Trust by Consensus

Trust is a complex social phenomenon, captured very poorly by the binary nature of Internet trust systems.

Using Eagles to Intercept Drones

Both Dutch and UK police are training eagles to attack drones....

When Scriptkiddies Attack

Usually I don't blog about the hundreds of ridiculous or down right crazy emails I receive each year, but this exchange makes all the others seem…

Fear and Anxiety

More psychological research on our reaction to terrorism and mass violence: The researchers collected posts on Twitter made in response to the 2012…

Exploit Kit Turf Wars

A rare event when two different Exploit Kits are disputing victims’ over the same territory.

Survey of the Dark Web

Interesting paper on the dark web: Daniel Moore & Thomas Rid, "Cryptopolitik and the Darknet," Survival, 2016.

Friday Squid Blogging : Pajama Squid

The Monterey Bay Aquarium has a pajama squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I…

Fitbit Data Reveals Pregnancy

A man learned his wife was pregnant from her Fitbit data. The details of the story are weird.

Determining Physical Location on the Internet

Interesting research: "CPV: Delay-based Location Verification for the Internet": Abstract: The number of location-aware services over the Internet…

Worldwide Encryption Products Survey

Today I released my worldwide survey of encryption products. The findings of this survey identified 619 entities that sell encryption products.

Make Privacy a 2016 Election Issue

EPIC has just launched "Data Protection 2016" to try to make privacy an issue in this year's elections. You can buy swag....

AT&T Does Not Care about Your Privacy

AT&T's CEO believes that the company should not offer robust security to its customers: But tech company leaders aren't all joining the fight against…

Unleashing YARA – Part 1

[Editor’s Note: In the article below, Ricardo Dias who is a SANS GCFA gold certified and a seasoned security professional demonstrates the usefulness…

10,000-Year-Old Warfare

Evidence of primitive warfare from Kenya's Rift Valley....

The 2016 National Threat Assessment

It's National Threat Assessment Day. Published annually by the Director of National Intelligence, the "Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US…

Large-Scale FBI Hacking

As part of a child pornography investigation, the FBI hacked into over 1,300 computers.

Data and Goliath Published in Paperback

Today, Data and Goliath is being published in paperback. Everyone tells me that the paperback version sells better than the hardcover, even though…

Exploiting Google Maps for Fraud

The New York Times has a long article on fraudulent locksmiths.