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Schneier on Security
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
I think this is the first documented case of a cyberattack causing a fatality. UK hospitals had to redirect patients during the 2017 WannaCry ransomware attack , but there were no documented fatalities from that event. The police are treating this as a homicide.
Schneier on Security
MARCH 30, 2023
Now this is interesting: Thousands of pages of secret documents reveal how Vulkan’s engineers have worked for Russian military and intelligence agencies to support hacking operations, train operatives before attacks on national infrastructure, spread disinformation and control sections of the internet. Lots more at the link.
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Schneier on Security
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
Jake Appelbaum’s PhD thesis contains several new revelations from the classified NSA documents provided to journalists by Edward Snowden. At this point, those documents are more historical than anything else. Nothing major, but a few more tidbits. Kind of amazing that that all happened ten years ago.
Schneier on Security
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
Via a FOIA request, we have documents from the NSA about their banning of Furby toys.
Schneier on Security
JUNE 29, 2023
Microsoft hearing , Sony supplied a document from PlayStation chief Jim Ryan that includes redacted details on the margins Sony shares with publishers, its Call of Duty revenues, and even the cost of developing some of its games. We have learned this lesson again : As part of the FTC v.
Schneier on Security
DECEMBER 19, 2023
There’s a rumor flying around the Internet that OpenAI is training foundation models on your Dropbox documents. Dropbox isn’t sharing all of your documents with OpenAI. Here’s CNBC. Here’s Boing Boing. Some articles are more nuanced , but there’s still a lot of confusion. It seems not to be true.
Schneier on Security
MAY 10, 2021
This is a newly unclassified NSA history of its reaction to academic cryptography in the 1970s: “ New Comes Out of the Closet: The Debate over Public Cryptography in the Inman Era ,” Cryptographic Quarterly , Spring 1996, author still classified.
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