The Last Watchdog
FEBRUARY 25, 2025
Related: Weaponizing Microsoft’s co-pilot Until now, lackluster enterprise search capabilities kept many security risks in checkemployees simply couldnt find much of the data they were authorized to access. Over-provisioned access The risks of excessive access are nothing new.
Schneier on Security
OCTOBER 5, 2020
A Study on Usability and Security Perceptions of Risk-based Authentication “: Abstract : Risk-based Authentication (RBA) is an adaptive security measure to strengthen password-based authentication. I’ve blogged about risk-based authentication before. Paper’s website.
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Schneier on Security
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
” Their blog post lists “three takeaways,” but the eight lessons in the report itself are more useful: Understand what the system can do and where it is applied. Automation can help cover more of the risk landscape. LLMs amplify existing security risks and introduce new ones.
Schneier on Security
OCTOBER 9, 2023
Reading the headlines, one would hope that the rapid gains in AI technology have also brought forth a unifying realization of the risks—and the steps we need to take to mitigate them. Some are concerned about far-future risks that sound like science fiction. AI could destroy humanity or pose a risk on par with nukes.
Schneier on Security
MAY 2, 2025
However, there are a number of factors to consider before deploying a solution based on Advanced Cryptography, including the relative immaturity of the techniques and their implementations, significant computational burdens and slow response times, and the risk of opening up additional cyber attack vectors. NCSC blog entry.
Schneier on Security
APRIL 27, 2023
Stanford and Georgetown have a new report on the security risks of AI—particularly adversarial machine learning—based on a workshop they held on the topic. Many AI products are deployed without institutions fully understanding the security risks they pose.
Schneier on Security
OCTOBER 15, 2021
I’m part of a group of cryptographers that has just published a paper discussing the security risks of such a system. (It’s Ross Anderson wrote a great blog post on the paper. (It’s It’s not a cryptographic backdoor, but it’s still a backdoor — and brings with it all the insecurities of a backdoor.
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