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 ends with the provocative sentence: “This destroys…
Threat Model Humor
At a hospital.Read more: schneier.com
Chinese Hackers Stole an NSA Windows Exploit in…
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 published the same tool. Here’s the timeline:…
The 7-Second Test: How to Make Your Homepage…
You had your game plan. You were going to put together a homepage that turned visitors into customers. Those customers were going to become raving fans of your business. They would tell all of their…
Encoded Message in the Perseverance Mars Lander’s Parachute
NASA made an oblique reference to a coded message in the color pattern of the Perseverance Mars Lander ‘s parachute. More information.Read more: schneier.com
Mysterious Macintosh Malware
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 far, however, researchers have yet to…
How a Business Strategy Will Revolutionize the Way…
When was the last time you brought your business strategy into your website design? If the answer is never, we get it. As marketers and business owners, we don’t bring business strategy into our websites.…
National Security Risks of Late-Stage Capitalism
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 the attackers access to the computer…
List of data breaches and cyber attacks in…
The cyber security industry was rocked in February after a ransomware attack against the Cloud service provider Accellion. Dozens of organisations that used the software reported incidents in one of the worst months we’ve ever…
Friday Squid Blogging: Squids Don’t Like Pile-Driving Noises
New research: Pile driving occurs during construction of marine platforms, including offshore windfarms, producing intense sounds that can adversely affect marine animals. We quantified how a commercially and economically important squid (Doryteuthis pealeii: Lesueur 1821)…