No, RSA Is Not Broken
March 5 2021I have been seeing this paper by cryptographer Peter Schnorr making the rounds: “Fast Factoring Integers by SVP Algorithms.” It describes a new factoring method, and its abstract...
Read moreFour Microsoft Exchange Zero-Days Exploited by China
March 4 2021Microsoft has issued an emergency Microsoft Exchange patch to fix four zero-day vulnerabilities currently being exploited by China.
Read moreChinese Hackers Stole an NSA Windows Exploit in 2014
March 4 2021Check Point has evidence that (probably government affiliated) Chinese hackers stole and cloned an NSA Windows hacking tool years before (probably government affiliated) Russian hackers stole and then...
Read moreNASA made an oblique reference to a coded message in the color pattern of the Perseverance Mars Lander ‘s parachute. More information.
Read moreMysterious Macintosh Malware
March 2 2021This is weird:
Once an hour, infected Macs check a control server to see if there are any new commands the malware should run or binaries to execute. So...
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National Security Risks of Late-Stage Capitalism
March 1 2021Early in 2020, cyberspace attackers apparently working for the Russian government compromised a piece of widely used network management software made by a company called SolarWinds. The hack gave...
Read moreFriday Squid Blogging: Far Side Cartoon
February 26 2021The Far Side on squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting...
Read moreThe Problem with Treating Data as a Commodity
February 26 2021Excellent Brookings paper: “Why data ownership is the wrong approach to protecting privacy.”
From the introduction:
Treating data like it is property fails to recognize either the value that varieties...
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