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Telegram Hosting World’s Largest Darknet Market
Wired is reporting on Chinese darknet markets on Telegram. The ecosystem of marketplaces for Chinese-speaking crypto scammers hosted on the messaging service Te...
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Schneier on Security
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Found in Light Fixture
Probably a college prank. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blog moderation poli...
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Flock Exposes Its AI-Enabled Surveillance Cameras
404 Media has the story: Unlike many of Flock’s cameras, which are designed to capture license plates as people drive by, Flock’s Condor cameras are pan-tilt-zo...
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LinkedIn Job Scams
Interesting article on the variety of LinkedIn job scams around the world: In India, tech jobs are used as bait because the industry employs millions of people...
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Using AI-Generated Images to Get Refunds
Scammers are generating images of broken merchandise in order to apply for refunds....
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Are We Ready to Be Governed by Artificial Intelligence?
Artificial Intelligence AI overlords are a common trope in science-fiction dystopias, but the reality looks much more prosaic. The technologies of artificial in...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Camouflage
New research: Abstract: Coleoid cephalopods have the most elaborate camouflage system in the animal kingdom. This enables them to hide from or deceive both pred...
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Urban VPN Proxy Surreptitiously Intercepts AI Chats
This is pretty scary: Urban VPN Proxy targets conversations across ten AI platforms: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Grok xAI,...
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Denmark Accuses Russia of Conducting Two Cyberattacks
News: The Danish Defence Intelligence Service DDIS announced on Thursday that Moscow was behind a cyber-attack on a Danish water utility in 2024 and a series of...
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Microsoft Is Finally Killing RC4
After twenty-six years, Microsoft is finally upgrading the last remaining instance of the encryption algorithm RC4 in Windows. of the most visible holdouts in s...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Petting a Squid
Video from Reddit shows what could go wrong when you try to pet a—looks like a Humboldt—squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the secu...