Vulnerability Finding Using Machine Learning
Microsoft is training a machine-learning system to find software bugs: At Microsoft, 47,000 developers generate nearly 30 thousand bugs a month. These items get stored across over 100 AzureDevOps and...
View ArticleAnother Story of Bad 1970s Encryption
This one is from the Netherlands. It seems to be clever cryptanalysis rather than a backdoor. The Dutch intelligence service has been able to read encrypted communications from dozens of countries...
View ArticleNew iPhone Zero-Day Discovered
Last year, ZecOps discovered two iPhone zero-day exploits. They will be patched in the next iOS release: Avraham declined to disclose many details about who the targets were, and did not say whether...
View ArticleChinese COVID-19 Disinformation Campaign
The New York Times is reporting on state-sponsored disinformation campaigns coming out of China: Since that wave of panic, United States intelligence agencies have assessed that Chinese operatives...
View ArticleGlobal Surveillance in the Wake of COVID-19
OneZero is tracking thirty countries around the world who are implementing surveillance programs in the wake of COVID-19: The most common form of surveillance implemented to battle the pandemic is the...
View ArticleFriday Squid Blogging: Humboldt Squid Backlight Themselves to Communicate...
This is neat: Deep in the Pacific Ocean, six-foot-long Humboldt squid are known for being aggressive, cannibalistic and, according to new research, good communicators. Known as “red devils,” the squid...
View ArticleAutomatic Instacart Bots
Instacart is taking legal action against bots that automatically place orders: Before it closed, to use Cartdash users first selected what items they want from Instacart as normal. Once that was done,...
View ArticleFooling NLP Systems Through Word Swapping
MIT researchers have built a system that fools natural-language processing systems by swapping words with synonyms: The software, developed by a team at MIT, looks for the words in a sentence that are...
View ArticleHow Did Facebook Beat a Federal Wiretap Demand?
This is interesting: Facebook Inc. in 2018 beat back federal prosecutors seeking to wiretap its encrypted Messenger app. Now the American Civil Liberties Union is seeking to find out how. The entire...
View ArticleSecuring Internet Videoconferencing Apps: Zoom and Others
The NSA just published a survey of video conferencing apps. So did Mozilla. Zoom is on the good list, with some caveats. The company has done a lot of work addressing previous security concerns. It...
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