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Cord cutting: Cables that you didn’t know about!
The content of this post is solely the responsibility of the author. AT&T does not adopt or endorse any of the views, positions, or information provided by the author in this article. A week before my 15th birthday in September 2023, and quite coincidentally in time for my favorite phone’s 15th iteration (cough cough, parents,…
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Over $80m in Crypto Stolen in Cyber-Attack on Orbit Chain
Orbit Chain said that the stolen cryptocurrency currently remains unmoved Read More
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TikTok Editorial Analysis
TikTok seems to be skewing things in the interests of the Chinese Communist Party. (This is a serious analysis, and the methodology looks sound.) Conclusion: Substantial Differences in Hashtag Ratios Raise Concerns about TikTok’s Impartiality Given the research above, we assess a strong possibility that content on TikTok is either amplified or suppressed based on…
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Australian Court Service Hacked, Hearing Recordings at Risk
Court Services Victoria said the incident may have compromised recordings involving people whose identities are protected Read More
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Teen Found Alive After “Cyber-Kidnapping” Incident
A Chinese foreign exchange student has been found after online scammers extorted money from his parents Read More
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Black Basta Ransomware Decryptor Published
Researchers at SRLabs have revealed a new suite of decryption tools for Black Basta ransomware Read More
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Happy 14th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity!
KrebsOnSecurity celebrates its 14th year of existence today! I promised myself this post wouldn’t devolve into yet another Cybersecurity Year in Review. Nor do I wish to hold forth about whatever cyber horrors may await us in 2024. But I do want to thank you all for your continued readership, encouragement and support, without which…
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AI Is Scarily Good at Guessing the Location of Random Photos
Wow: To test PIGEON’s performance, I gave it five personal photos from a trip I took across America years ago, none of which have been published online. Some photos were snapped in cities, but a few were taken in places nowhere near roads or other easily recognizable landmarks. That didn’t seem to matter much. It…
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Friday Squid Blogging: Sqids
They’re short unique strings: Sqids (pronounced “squids”) is an open-source library that lets you generate YouTube-looking IDs from numbers. These IDs are short, can be generated from a custom alphabet and are guaranteed to be collision-free. I haven’t dug into the details enough to know how they can be guaranteed to be collision-free. As usual,…
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AI and Lossy Bottlenecks
Artificial intelligence is poised to upend much of society, removing human limitations inherent in many systems. One such limitation is information and logistical bottlenecks in decision-making. Traditionally, people have been forced to reduce complex choices to a small handful of options that don’t do justice to their true desires. Artificial intelligence has the potential to…