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No, RSA Is Not Broken

March 5 2021 By Bruce Schneier in cryptanalysis, Cryptography, Security

I 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...

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Threat Model Humor

March 5 2021 By Bruce Schneier in medicine, Security

At a hospital.

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Four Microsoft Exchange Zero-Days Exploited by China

March 4 2021 By Bruce Schneier in China, Microsoft, Security, vulnerabilities, Zero-day

Microsoft has issued an emergency Microsoft Exchange patch to fix four zero-day vulnerabilities currently being exploited by China.

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Chinese Hackers Stole an NSA Windows Exploit in 2014

March 4 2021 By Bruce Schneier in China, Exploits, Microsoft, nsa, Security, Windows

Check 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...

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Encoded Message in the Perseverance Mars Lander’s Parachute

March 3 2021 By Bruce Schneier in Security

NASA made an oblique reference to a coded message in the color pattern of the Perseverance Mars Lander ‘s parachute. More information.

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Mysterious Macintosh Malware

March 2 2021 By Bruce Schneier in Apple, Malware, Security

This 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 2021 By Bruce Schneier in China, cybersecurity, Russia, Security

Early 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...

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Friday Squid Blogging: Far Side Cartoon

February 26 2021 By Bruce Schneier in Security, squid

The 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...

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The Problem with Treating Data as a Commodity

February 26 2021 By Bruce Schneier in data protection, Privacy, reports, Security

Excellent 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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