Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Cartoon
Squid humor. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read...
thunderbird-115.12.0-2.fc39
FEDORA-2024-25da59ef4e Packages in this update: thunderbird-115.12.0-2.fc39 Update description: Update to 115.12.0 https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2024-28/ https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/115.12.0/releasenotes/ Read More
thunderbird-115.12.0-2.fc40
FEDORA-2024-748bedc96c Packages in this update: thunderbird-115.12.0-2.fc40 Update description: Update to 115.12.0 https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2024-28/ https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/115.12.0/releasenotes/ Read More
vte-0.28.2-42.el7
FEDORA-EPEL-2024-29630d7094 Packages in this update: vte-0.28.2-42.el7 Update description: Update patches. Read More
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m appearing on a panel on Society and Democracy at ACM...
How to Avoid Being Phished by Your Phone
By now you’ve probably heard of the term “phishing”—when scammers try to fool you into revealing your personal info or sending money, usually via email...
UK General Election: Tech Policy Expert Calls for Law Overhaul to Combat Deepfakes
Governments should “police the content rather than the technology used to create it,” Matthew Feeney from the Centre for Policy Studies argued in a new...
Demo of AES GCM Misuse Problems
This is really neat demo of the security problems arising from reusing nonces with a symmetric cipher in GCM mode. Read More
Microsoft Admits Security Failings Allowed China to Access US Government Emails
Microsoft President Brad Smith told US Congress that the tech giant accepts responsibility for security failings regarding the 2023 China hack Read More
ghostscript-10.02.1-3.fc39
FEDORA-2024-029fa02f7a Packages in this update: ghostscript-10.02.1-3.fc39 Update description: Security fix for CVE-2024-33871 Read More