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Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist and author. Described by The Economist as a "security guru"
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New Cryptanalysis of the Fiat-Shamir Protocol
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A couple of months ago, a new paper demonstrated some new attacks against the Fiat-Shamir transformation. Quanta published a good article that explains the results. This is a pretty exciting paper...
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Friday Squid Blogging: The Origin and Propagation of Squid
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New research (paywalled): Editor’s summary: Cephalopods are one of the most successful marine invertebrates in modern oceans, and they have a 500-million-year-old history. However, we know very...
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GPT-4o-mini Falls for Psychological Manipulation
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Interesting experiment: To design their experiment, the University of Pennsylvania researchers tested 2024’s GPT-4o-mini model on two requests that it should ideally refuse: calling the user a jerk...
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Indirect Prompt Injection Attacks Against LLM Assistants
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Really good research on practical attacks against LLM agents. “Invitation Is All You Need! Promptware Attacks Against LLM-Powered Assistants in Production Are Practical and Dangerous” Abstract: The...
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1965 Cryptanalysis Training Workbook Released by the NSA
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In the early 1960s, National Security Agency cryptanalyst and cryptanalysis instructor Lambros D. Callimahos coined the term “Stethoscope” to describe a diagnostic computer program used to unravel...
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We Are Still Unable to Secure LLMs from Malicious Inputs
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Nice indirect prompt injection attack: Bargury’s attack starts with a poisoned document, which is shared to a potential victim’s Google Drive. (Bargury says a victim could have also uploaded a...
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Encryption Backdoor in Military/Police Radios
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I wrote about this in 2023. Here’s the story: Three Dutch security analysts discovered the vulnerabilities—five in total—in a European radio standard called TETRA (Terrestrial Trunked Radio), which...
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Poor Password Choices
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Look at this: McDonald’s chose the password “123456” for a major corporate system.
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