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November 15, 2024

In this issue:

  1. More Details on Israel Sabotaging Hezbollah Pagers and Walkie-Talkies
  2. Cheating at Conkers
  3. Justice Department Indicts Tech CEO for Falsifying Security Certifications
  4. AI and the SEC Whistleblower Program
  5. No, the Chinese Have Not Broken Modern Encryption Systems with a Quantum Computer
  6. Are Automatic License Plate Scanners Constitutional?
  7. Watermark for LLM-Generated Text
  8. Criminals Are Blowing up ATMs in Germany
  9. Law Enforcement Deanonymizes Tor Users
  10. Simson Garfinkel on Spooky Cryptographic Action at a Distance
  11. Tracking World Leaders Using Strava
  12. Roger Grimes on Prioritizing Cybersecurity Advice
  13. Sophos Versus the Chinese Hackers
  14. AIs Discovering Vulnerabilities
  15. IoT Devices in Password-Spraying Botnet
  16. Subverting LLM Coders
  17. Prompt Injection Defenses Against LLM Cyberattacks
  18. AI Industry is Trying to Subvert the Definition of “Open Source AI”
  19. Criminals Exploiting FBI Emergency Data Requests
  20. Mapping License Plate Scanners in the US
  21. New iOS Security Feature Makes It Harder for Police to Unlock Seized Phones

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October 15, 2024

In this issue:

  1. Legacy Ivanti Cloud Service Appliance Being Exploited
  2. Python Developers Targeted with Malware During Fake Job Interviews
  3. Remotely Exploding Pagers
  4. FBI Shuts Down Chinese Botnet
  5. Clever Social Engineering Attack Using Captchas
  6. Hacking the "Bike Angels" System for Moving Bikeshares
  7. Israel’s Pager Attacks and Supply Chain Vulnerabilities
  8. New Windows Malware Locks Computer in Kiosk Mode
  9. An Analysis of the EU’s Cyber Resilience Act
  10. NIST Recommends Some Common-Sense Password Rules
  11. AI and the 2024 US Elections
  12. Hacking ChatGPT by Planting False Memories into Its Data
  13. California AI Safety Bill Vetoed
  14. Weird Zimbra Vulnerability
  15. Largest Recorded DDoS Attack is 3.8 Tbps
  16. China Possibly Hacking US "Lawful Access" Backdoor
  17. Auto-Identification Smart Glasses
  18. Deebot Robot Vacuums Are Using Photos and Audio to Train Their AI
  19. IronNet Has Shut Down
  20. More on My AI and Democracy Book
  21. Perfectl Malware
  22. Upcoming Speaking Engagements

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September 15, 2024

In this issue:

  1. NIST Releases First Post-Quantum Encryption Algorithms
  2. New Windows IPv6 Zero-Click Vulnerability
  3. The State of Ransomware
  4. Hacking Wireless Bicycle Shifters
  5. Story of an Undercover CIA Officer who Penetrated Al Qaeda
  6. Surveillance Watch
  7. Take a Selfie Using a NY Surveillance Camera
  8. US Federal Court Rules Against Geofence Warrants
  9. The Present and Future of TV Surveillance
  10. Matthew Green on Telegram’s Encryption
  11. Adm. Grace Hopper’s 1982 NSA Lecture Has Been Published
  12. SQL Injection Attack on Airport Security
  13. List of Old NSA Training Videos
  14. Security Researcher Sued for Disproving Government Statements
  15. Long Analysis of the M-209
  16. YubiKey Side-Channel Attack
  17. Australia Threatens to Force Companies to Break Encryption
  18. New Chrome Zero-Day
  19. Evaluating the Effectiveness of Reward Modeling of Generative AI Systems
  20. Microsoft Is Adding New Cryptography Algorithms
  21. My TedXBillings Talk
  22. Upcoming Speaking Engagements

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