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LLM Summary of My Book Beyond Fear
PRIVACY PRIVACY Claude (Anthropic’s LLM) was given this prompt: Please summarize the themes and arguments of Bruce Schneier’s book Beyond Fear. I’m particularly interested in a taxonomy of his ethical arguments—please expand on that. Then lay out the most salient criticisms of the book. Claude’s reply: Here’s a brief summary of the key themes and…
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Cloud to Blame for Almost all Security Vulnerabilities
PRIVACY PRIVACY Palo Alto Networks found that over 45% of organizations’ high-risk exposures in the cloud were due to cloud providers introducing new services Read More
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China’s Malicious Cyber Activity Informing War Preparations, Pentagon Says
PRIVACY PRIVACY The report says China is likely to launch destructive cyber-attacks against the US Homeland in the event of a military conflict Read More
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On Technologies for Automatic Facial Recognition
PRIVACY PRIVACY Interesting article on technologies that will automatically identify people: With technology like that on Mr. Leyvand’s head, Facebook could prevent users from ever forgetting a colleague’s name, give a reminder at a cocktail party that an acquaintance had kids to ask about or help find someone at a crowded conference. However, six years…
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Pirated Software Likely Cause of Airbus Breach
PRIVACY PRIVACY Incident exposed personal information at 3200 vendors Read More
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Iranian Threat Group Hits Thousands With Password Spray Campaign
PRIVACY PRIVACY APT33 activity resulted in data theft from small number of victims Read More
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Caesars Entertainment Reveals Major Ransomware Breach
PRIVACY PRIVACY Attackers compromised loyalty program data via supplier Read More
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Upcoming Speaking Engagements
PRIVACY PRIVACY This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking at swampUP 2023 in San Jose, California, on September 13, 2023 at 11:35 AM PT. The list is maintained on this page. Read More
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BLASTPASS: Government agencies told to secure iPhones against spyware attacks
PRIVACY PRIVACY CISA, the United States’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, has ordered federal agencies to patch their iPhones against vulnerabilities that can be used as part of a zero-click attack to install spyware from the notorious NSO Group. Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog. Read More
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Greater Manchester Police latest force to suffer serious data breach
PRIVACY PRIVACY Uh-oh, yet another UK police force has suffered a serious data breach. After the incidents involving Cumbria Police, Norfolk and Suffolk Police, and – perhaps worst of all – the PSNI in Northern Ireland, it’s now Greater Manchester Police finding itself in the hot seat. Read More