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October 2026

  1. Studying Fraudulent North Korean IT Workers
  2. Hiding Capabilities in AI Models
  3. Bias in Qwen3-Coder Model
  4. Friday Squid Blogging: Increasing Squid Populations
  5. Compromised TLS Certificates
  6. New Serious PHP Vulnerabilities Released and Patched
  7. Workshop on Economics and Information Security (WEIS) Archive
  8. Possible new Cellebrite iPhone Radio Zero-Day
  9. Training AIs to Solve CAPTCHAs
  10. Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Before the Chicxulub Meteor Impact
  11. Backdooring Open-Weight AI Models
  12. Measuring Human Cryptanalysis Effort
  13. Upcoming Speaking Engagements
  14. The Future of AI Cryptanalysis
  15. Cyberattack on Connected Fridges in France
  16. FBI Arrests Suspect in FBI-Hacking Case
  17. Friday Squid Blogging: I Caught a Squid
  18. How Technology Empowers—and Imperils—Dictators
  19. Apple’s Verified Photography System
  20. Possible Vulnerability in Apple’s Automatic Reboot
  21. Another Historic Cipher Falls to AI
  22. Friday Squid Blogging: EU is Trying to Fight Unregulated Squid Fishing
  23. Unidentified Flock Cameras in Florida
  24. How American Political Campaigns Are Using AI—and What They’re Spending on the Tools
  25. Connected Cars Are a Surveillance Platform

September 2026

  1. I Want Better Reporting on AI Genie Behavior
  2. Using Device Linking to Eavesdrop on WhatsApp and Signal
  3. New Attack Against RSA
  4. Friday Squid Blogging: Participatory Squid Dissection in October in Tennessee
  5. On Anthropic’s AI Misuse Report
  6. Malicious npm Packages That Evade Defenses
  7. Research on Models Engaging in Genie-Like Behavior
  8. GPT-6 Astra Breaks an Old Enigma Message
  9. Reverse-Engineering Flock Cameras
  10. Friday Squid Blogging: On Squid Egg Sacs
  11. Are AIs Still Struggling with CAPTCHAs?
  12. How Candidates Could Use AI for Good
  13. Fake CAPTCHA Scams
  14. 25 Years of Mass Surveillance Is Enough
  15. On the NSA’s Supercomputer from the 1960s
  16. Upcoming Speaking Engagements
  17. Using AI for Weapons Development
  18. Microsoft’s Patching
  19. Friday Squid Blogging: Rotting Squid on a Beached California Boat
  20. My Talk at DEF CON
  21. Cliff Stoll’s DEF CON Talk
  22. AIs Compress Exploit Timeline
  23. Driver’s License Data for Sale
  24. Claude Fable Solves a Historical Cipher
  25. AIs as Modern Genies
  26. Stealing AI Reasoning Traces
  27. Automobile Camouflage to Hide from Flock Cameras
  28. Friday Squid Blogging: Squid on a Stick at the New York State Fair
  29. Using a VM to Contain an AI Agent
  30. Security Vulnerability in a Voting System
  31. AI Coding Agents Are Installing Unknown/Untrusted Code on Corporate Networks
  32. Researching Employment Scams
  33. AI Agents Are Now Emailing Me with Their Security Concerns
  34. Wireless Routers as Motion Detectors
  35. What’s the Scam?
  36. Leaked Russian Cyber-Operations Training Materials
  37. Rewiring Democracy Series on The Renovator

August 2026

  1. Is Someone Hacking DoD Refrigerators?
  2. Hiding Prompt Injection in Legal Filing
  3. Friday Squid Blogging: Truckload of Squid Spills in Rhode Island
  4. AI Doesn’t Mean the End of Mathematics—at Least Not Yet
  5. LLM-Based Social Engineering Scams
  6. Spyware for Babies
  7. Black Hat State of Security Vendors
  8. Criminal Deception in Silicon Valley
  9. Friday Squid Blogging: Neon Flying Squid
  10. AI Is Learning to Write Genetic Code
  11. More Incidents of AIs Going Rogue in Cybersecurity Challenges
  12. Detailed Timeline of OpenAI’s Cyberattack on Hugging Face
  13. Police Are Hiding Their Use of Flock Surveillance Cameras
  14. ICE Collecting DNA Samples
  15. LLMs and Contextual Integrity
  16. Hacking Public Wi-Fi DNS to Steal Credentials
  17. Friday Squid Blogging: Searching for the Colossal Squid
  18. Upcoming Speaking Engagements
  19. If the Markets Reject OpenAI and Anthropic, the US Should Nationalize Them
  20. Separating AI’s Technological Problems from Its Capitalism Problems
  21. Prompt Injections for Defense
  22. AI Genie in the Wild
  23. AI for Military Support
  24. Python Now Has a Post-Quantum Encryption Library
  25. Friday Squid Blogging: Arctic Bobtail Squid Video
  26. ICE Is Buying Access to Credit Card Records
  27. Adversarial Clothing Designed to Fool Facial Recognition Systems
  28. Vulnerabilities in Car Anti-Theft Device
  29. Iran Cyberattacks Against Minnesota Water Systems
  30. Some Claude Chats Are Searchable on Google
  31. More on the OpenAI Agent’s Attack on Hugging Face
  32. The OpenAI Hack Shows the Genie Is Out of the Bottle

July 2026

  1. Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Helps Discover New Marine Species
  2. Anthropic’s Opus 5 Is Better at Resisting Prompt Injection
  3. Facial Recognition at Madison Square Garden
  4. American Being Prosecuted for Wiping His Phone Before Handing It Over to Border Officials
  5. Should You Use AI for a Task? Here’s a Simple Way to Decide
  6. Measuring the Tendency of AI Agents to Go Rogue
  7. Long-Lived Vulnerability in Microsoft Secure Boot
  8. Measuring LLMs’ Ability to Perform Cryptanalysis
  9. Axon Is Another License Plate Surveillance Company
  10. Cognyte Sells a Mobile Cell Surveillance Van
  11. Friday Squid Blogging: Illex Squid Catch in the Falklands
  12. Why AI Needs a “Genie Coefficient”
  13. End-to-End Encryption and “Going Dark”
  14. First-Person Identity Theft Story
  15. MIT to Become Hotbed of AI Video Surveillance
  16. On Flock License Plate Tracking Cameras
  17. Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Washing Up on Cape Cod Beach
  18. Details of Alan Turing’s Voice Encryption System
  19. Protecting Privacy in an AI Era
  20. A Video Screen That Is Also a Camera
  21. Upcoming Speaking Engagements
  22. Vulnerability in FIFA’s Network
  23. AI Data Centers and the Concentration of Wealth
  24. Friday Squid Blogging: “Squidbleed” Vulnerability
  25. AI Surveillance and Social Progress
  26. The Language of AI Could Change How Humans Speak
  27. Cybersecurity and the Gap Between Skill and Ability
  28. Google Is Suing Chinese Scammers Who Are Using Gemini
  29. France to Stop Certifying Non-Quantum-Safe Encryption
  30. Flock Cameras Can Surveil Cars Without License Plates
  31. Cybersecurity Mission Creep in the US
  32. Papa Johns Surveillance-Based Advertising

June 2026

  1. The Realities of AI Video Surveillance
  2. Factoring RSA Keys with Many Zeros
  3. Robot Police Officers
  4. Friday Squid Blogging: The Chinese Control the Majority of Argentina’s Squid Fleet
  5. Meta Is Testing Facial Recognition for Police and Military
  6. One Million Passports Leaked Online
  7. AI and Liability
  8. Interesting Paper Exploring Prompt Injection
  9. Embedding Forbidden Text in Spyware to Discourage AI Analysis
  10. Anthropic’s Fable 5 Model Jailbroken Within Days
  11. Professional Athletes and Wearables
  12. Friday Squid Blogging: Victims of Unregulated Squid Fishing
  13. Anthropic’s Fable and the State of AI
  14. Embedding Forbidden Text in Spyware to Discourage AI Analysis
  15. AI Use by the US Government
  16. Flock Cameras Are Being Used for Stalking
  17. The FCC Wants to Eliminate Burner Phones
  18. Upcoming Speaking Engagements
  19. Friday Squid Blogging: Squid-Inspired Fluid Pump
  20. Bernie Sanders’ AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Plan
  21. Enhanced License Plate Tracking
  22. NSO Group Hacking WhatsApp Despite Court Order
  23. GPS As a Key Distribution Platform
  24. Critical Zcash Vulnerability Found and Fixed

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