Textbook Rental Scam
Here’s a story of someone who, with three compatriots, rented textbooks from Amazon and then sold them instead of returning…
Using Machine Learning to Guess PINs from Video
Researchers trained a machine-learning system on videos of people typing their PINs into ATMs: By using three tries, which is…
Ransomware Attacks against Water Treatment Plants
According to a report from CISA last week, there were three ransomware attacks against water treatment plants last year. WWS…
The Missouri Governor Doesn’t Understand Responsible Disclosure
The Missouri governor wants to prosecute the reporter who discovered a security vulnerability in a state’s website, and then reported…
Friday Squid Blogging: New Giant Squid Video
New video of a large squid in the Red Sea at about 2,800 feet. As usual, you can also use…
Security Risks of Client-Side Scanning
Even before Apple made their announcement, law enforcement shifted their battle for back doors to client-side scanning. The idea is…
Recovering Real Faces from Face-Generation ML System
New paper: “This Person (Probably) Exists. Identity Membership Attacks Against GAN Generated Faces. Abstract: Recently, generative adversarial networks (GANs) have…
Suing Infrastructure Companies for Copyright Violations
It’s a matter of going after those with deep pockets. From Wired: Cloudflare was sued in November 2018 by Mon…
Airline Passenger Mistakes Vintage Camera for a Bomb
I feel sorry for the accused: The “security incident” that forced a New-York bound flight to make an emergency landing…
The European Parliament Voted to Ban Remote Biometric Surveillance
It’s not actually banned in the EU yet — the legislative process is much more complicated than that — but…