Here’s a scary one – certain apps that had been approved to be on the Apple and Google Play app stores were found to have malware that used OCR on the device’s photo library to look for stored crypto passwords. New allegations were made that Meta torrented 81.7 terrabytes of pirated content to train its…
Category: Security
Links for Week of January 24, 2025
This week, President Trump issued an executive order delaying enforcement against TikTok, but which raised a number of uncertainties. Among the flurry of other executive orders, the Biden Administration’s AI Safety order was rescinded. I liked the IAPP’s explanation of those issues. Finally, I liked this article describing the first password on the Internet. TikTok…
Links for Week of January 17, 2025
Today, the Supreme Court ruled to uphold the TikTok ban. Lots of commentary to be had there. In other news, the FBI forced some Chinese malware to delete itself this week from thousands of US computers. TikTok Ban – TikTok v Garland Deletion of Chinese Malware
Links for Week of December 27, 2024
Happy Holidays! Be careful out there – scammers can hack Google Forms to send official looking emails from Google.com, so merely looking at just the domain of where the phishing email is coming from is not always enough. This person lost a lot of cryptocurrency. Techdirt had a nice post on the victory by the…
Links for Week of December 13, 2024
This week, there were several articles revolving around the liability of chatbot operators for teen suicides linked thereto. Apple is facing a lawsuit saying they did not do enough to remove CSAM from their services. Chatbot Operator Liability for Teen Suicide Apple CSAM Lawsuit
Links for Week of October 4, 2024
This week, I liked the article which Bruce Schneier linked to about NIST’s updated password guidelines. I also liked the case discussion over the recent Alexander v. Take Two case, where there was infringement of the copyright, but the tattoo artist got zero damages. Finally, I should have linked to this last week, but my…
Links for Week of September 27, 2024
This week, Professor Guadamuz had another post on the Copyright Wars, this time “Copyright for Dummies.” Courtesy of BeSpacific, The Verge had a nice reminder to never give your phone to the police. As more states get Digital IDs, keep this advice in mind. Finally, I liked a summary of the forthcoming EU Cyber Resilience…
Links for Week of August 30, 2024
This week, David Colarusso posted the syllabus for his course on “Artificial Intelligence and the Law” to LLRX. Well worth reading. If art contains an NFT, is it now a security that must be regulated by the SEC? A new lawsuit is challenging that. Finally, Bruce Schneier has posted links to a long-lost lecture from…
Links for Week of July 19, 2024
As I write this, there is a huge outage affecting much of the Internet caused by a faulty software update from cloud provider CloudStrike. We also learned this week that AT&T had a massive data breach in 2022 that affected nearly every customer. Internet Outage AT&T Data Breach
Links for Week of June 21, 2024
This week, I liked Bruce Schneier’s article on Democracy and AI. I also thought it was interesting how Apple’s Private Cloud Compute, introduced during WWDC earlier this month, actually works. AI and Democracy Apple – Private Cloud Compute