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Glenn Howard

Vacation Time!!

     My wife, Kelly and I were loooong overdue for some R&R, so when we saw that things were starting to calm down with

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  • Friday Squid Blogging: Bigfin Squid Off California Coast October 30, 2026
    Neat video: The sighting, announced September 2, marks the first time anyone has spotted a live bigfin squid, which belongs to the Magnapinna genus, in the northeastern Pacific Ocean. 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 policy.
    Bruce Schneier
  • Bloatware in Aftermarket Auto Parts October 30, 2026
    This story is interesting: One Civic owner purchased a cheap aftermarket head unit off Amazon, and decided to have Claude work its magic on it, like it would a smart TV. What was reportedly discovered isn’t surprising, but is worth knowing about. Among the pre-installed bloatware—­or spyware, if you’re being less charitable­—was a voice assistant […]
    Bruce Schneier
  • Studying Fraudulent North Korean IT Workers October 28, 2026
    Researchers set up a fake start-up company to study fraudulent North Korean IT workers.
    Bruce Schneier
  • Hiding Capabilities in AI Models October 27, 2026
    Interesting research: “AI Models Can Provably Hide Arbitrary Capabilities” Abstract: Capability evaluations aim to surface dangerous model behaviors before deployment, but their reliability depends on the assumption that hidden capabilities can be elicited. We show this assumption does not hold under adversarial conditions by constructing backdoor attacks that embed encrypted neural networks within host model […]
    Bruce Schneier
  • Bias in Qwen3-Coder Model October 26, 2026
    Interesting research: TL;DR: Chinese AI models now sit inside Western products, and some carry geopolitical triggers: tell the model who the code is for, and the security of what it writes changes. For the first time, we showed that this vulnerability lives in the model’s weights, and that removing the model’s CCP alignment removes it. […]
    Bruce Schneier
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  • Widespread PHP Flaw May Cause Many Site Outages Today October 21, 2026
    Expect to see quite a few websites serving "404" or "Page Not Found" errors today: Nearly 70 percent of websites need to update their core software to fix a pair of vulnerabilities that allow an attacker to seize full control over affected servers. Experts say there are working exploits for the flaws, and that these […]
    BrianKrebs
  • Feds Suspect Ransom Negotiator Ran ShinyHunters Extortion Site October 19, 2026
    U.S. federal investigators pursuing the ShinyHunters hacking group that recently stole highly sensitive data from the FBI have identified executives at two different ransomware negotiation firms who maintained unusually close relations with the extortion group, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Sources close to the investigation say one of the executives in the United States even helped ShinyHunters […]
    BrianKrebs
  • U.K. Sanctions Cryptomus for RU Money Laundering October 14, 2026
    The United Kingdom has issued economic sanctions against Cryptomus, a chameleonic cryptocurrency platform that experts say serves as a major conduit for payments related to ransomware, narcotics, darknet markets, fraud and cybercrime services that are helping Russia circumvent existing financial restrictions.
    BrianKrebs
  • Microsoft Patches More Than 1,400 Security Flaws October 13, 2026
    Microsoft today issued updates to fix more than 1,400 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and other software. Today's epic patch batch dwarfs September's record of nearly 1,000 fixes, which was already about ten times the normal monthly patch load from Redmond.
    BrianKrebs
  • FBI Arrests Executive at Ransomware Negotiation Firm October 10, 2026
    Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Thursday arrested the co-founder of a Canadian cybersecurity firm in connection with an investigation into the ShinyHunters hacking group that recently relieved the FBI of sensitive data on thousands of agents, multiple sources tell KrebsOnSecurity.
    BrianKrebs

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