Collaborate Disseminate
Everyone is writing about the new WPA3 Wi-Fi security standard, and how it improves security over the current WPA2 standard. This summary is as good as any other: The first big new feature in WPA3 is protection against offline, password-guessing attack… Continue reading WPA3
Everyone is writing about the new WPA3 Wi-Fi security standard, and how it improves security over the current WPA2 standard. This summary is as good as any other: The first big new feature in WPA3 is protection against offline, password-guessing attacks. This is where an attacker captures data from your Wi-Fi stream, brings it back to a private computer, and… Continue reading WPA3
This is fascinating research about how the underlying training data for a machine-learning system can be inadvertently exposed. Basically, if a machine-learning system trains on a dataset that contains secret information, in some cases an attacker can … Continue reading Extracting Secrets from Machine Learning Systems
This is fascinating research about how the underlying training data for a machine-learning system can be inadvertently exposed. Basically, if a machine-learning system trains on a dataset that contains secret information, in some cases an attacker can query the system to extract that secret information. My guess is that there is a lot more research to be done here. EDITED… Continue reading Extracting Secrets from Machine Learning Systems
This story of leaked Australian government secrets is unlike any other I’ve heard: It begins at a second-hand shop in Canberra, where ex-government furniture is sold off cheaply. The deals can be even cheaper when the items in question are two heavy filing cabinets to which no-one can find the keys. They were purchased for small change and sat unopened… Continue reading Cabinet of Secret Documents from Australia
According to this story (non-paywall English version here), Israeli scientists released some information to the public they shouldn’t have. Defense establishment officials are now trying to erase any trace of the secret information from the web, but th… Continue reading Israeli Scientists Accidentally Reveal Classified Information
According to this story (non-paywall English version here), Israeli scientists released some information to the public they shouldn’t have. Defense establishment officials are now trying to erase any trace of the secret information from the web, but they have run into difficulties because the information was copied and is found on a number of platforms. Those officials have managed to… Continue reading Israeli Scientists Accidentally Reveal Classified Information
In November, the company Strava released an anonymous data-visualization map showing all the fitness activity by everyone using the app. Over this weekend, someone realized that it could be used to locate secret military bases: just look for repeated fitness activity in the middle of nowhere. News article…. Continue reading Locating Secret Military Bases via Fitness Data
In November, the company Strava released an anonymous data-visualization map showing all the fitness activity by everyone using the app. Over this weekend, someone realized that it could be used to locate secret military bases: just look for repeated f… Continue reading Locating Secret Military Bases via Fitness Data
Jim Risen writes a long and interesting article about his battles with the US government and the New York Times to report government secrets….
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