There’s another leak of NSA hacking tools and data from the Shadow Brokers. This one includes a list of hacked sites. According to analyses from researchers here and here, Monday’s dump contains 352...

Interesting.

A useful guide.

An impressive Chinese device that automatically reads marked cards in order to cheat at poker and other card games.

Beautiful. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.

Interesting research: “Don’t Skype & Type! Acoustic Eavesdropping in Voice-Over-IP“: Abstract: Acoustic emanations of computer keyboards represent a serious privacy issue. As demonstrated in prior...

A year and a half ago, I wrote about hardware bit-flipping attacks, which were then largely theoretical. Now, they can be used to root Android phones: The breakthrough has the potential to make...

It was a phishing attack.

Good long article on the 2015 attack against the US Office of Personnel Management.

It’s not hard to imagine the criminal possibilities of automation, autonomy, and artificial intelligence. But the imaginings are becoming mainstream—and the future isn’t too far off. Along similar...

Josephine Wolff examines different Internet governance stakeholders and how they frame security debates. Her conclusion: The tensions that arise around issues of security among different groups of...