Ecuador’s Attempt to Resettle Edward Snowden
Someone hacked the Ecuadorian embassy in Moscow and found a document related to Ecuador’s 2013 efforts to bring Edward Snowden...
Schneier on Security
Schneier on Security
When Security Locks You Out of Everything
Thought experiment story of someone of someone who lost everything in a house fire, and now can’t log into anything:...
2022 Workshop on Economics and Information Security (WEIS)
I did not attend WEIS this year, but Ross Anderson was there and liveblogged all the talks.
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Cubes
Researchers thaw squid frozen into a cube and often make interesting discoveries. (Okay, this is a weird story.) As usual,...
On the Dangers of Cryptocurrencies and the Uselessness of Blockchain
Earlier this month, I and others wrote a letter to Congress, basically saying that cryptocurrencies are an complete and total...
On the Subversion of NIST by the NSA
Nadiya Kostyuk and Susan Landau wrote an interesting paper: “Dueling Over DUAL_EC_DRBG: The Consequences of Corrupting a Cryptographic Standardization Process“:...
Symbiote Backdoor in Linux
Interesting: What makes Symbiote different from other Linux malware that we usually come across, is that it needs to infect...
Hertzbleed: A New Side-Channel Attack
Hertzbleed is a new side-channel attack that works against a variety of microprocressors. Deducing cryptographic keys by analyzing power consumption...
Hidden Anti-Cryptography Provisions in Internet Anti-Trust Bills
Two bills attempting to reduce the power of Internet monopolies are currently being debated in Congress: S. 2992, the American...
Hartzbleed: A New Side-Channel Attack
Hartzbleed is a new side-channel attack that works against a variety of microprocressors. Deducing cryptographic keys by analyzing power consumption...
