Abbott probes two cyber incidents amid extortion claims
Abbott Laboratories is investigating two separate cybersecurity incidents after confirming unauthorized access to internal legacy Exact Sciences systems in its…
2026
The Future of Age Verification: Your Face Never Leaves Your Device
As age verification laws expand worldwide, organizations face growing pressure to protect users’ privacy while meeting regulatory requirements. Incode explains…
Microsoft warns of surge in ACR Stealer attacks on customers
Microsoft has observed a surge in attacks using the ACR Stealer malware to steal browser-stored passwords, authentication tokens, and sensitive…
Hackers abuse ViPNet software to target Russian govt agencies
An advanced threat actor is abusing the update mechanism for the ViPNet private networking product suite to target Russian organizations,…
The Language of AI Could Change How Humans Speak
Because of the way they are trained, large language models capture only a slice of human language. They’re trained on…
AI Surveillance and Social Progress
In the near future, AI-powered surveillance systems will be able to track everything we do in public, and much of…
Friday Squid Blogging: “Squidbleed” Vulnerability
In a rare combined cybersecurity/squid post, a twenty-nine-year-old squid proxy bug can leak HTTP requests. As usual, you can also…
AI Data Centers and the Concentration of Wealth
This essay was written with Nathan E. Sanders, and originally appeared in The Guardian. Opposition to AI data centers has…
Vulnerability in FIFA’s Network
FIFA’s network was vulnerable to anyone with even minimal access. According to Schneier on Security, fifa’s network was vulnerable to…
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking (virtually) at the Policy-Relevant…