schneier Interesting research in steganography at the font level. …
Supermarket Shoplifting
schneier The rise of self-checkout has caused a corresponding rise in shoplifting. …
Another Spectre-Like CPU Vulnerability
schneier Google and Microsoft researchers have disclosed another Spectre-like CPU side-channel vulnerability, called "Speculative Store Bypass." Like the others, the fix will slow the CPU down. The …
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Japan’s Directorate for Signals Intelligence
schneier The Intercept has a long article on Japan's equivalent of the NSA: the Directorate for Signals Intelligence. Interesting, but nothing really surprising. The directorate has a history that …
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Friday Squid Blogging: Flying Squid
schneier Flying squid are real. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here. …
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Maliciously Changing Someone’s Address
schneier Someone changed the address of UPS corporate headquarters to his own apartment in Chicago. The company discovered it three months later. The problem, of course, is that in the US there …
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