Bruce Schneier

Comcast has added motion detection as a feature to its wireless routers: The feature sends push notifications to users when motion is detected near a connected device, such as a TV or printer. It has different settings for when people are home, asleep, or away. The Xfinity app also lets users see live motion activity and a feed of recent activity. Comcast acknowledges that the system has some limitations. Home size, layout, building materials, and the placement of the router and connected devic…

To subscribe to my monthly email newsletter, you have to enter your information on the webpage, and then reply to an automatically generated email. This is, of course, to prevent people from subscribing addresses other than their own. Starting last weekend, I have been receiving a lot of individual responses to those emails. Always one line: Thank you for the positive impact your emails have had on my life. Your emails are a game-changer. Your emails are a constant reminder of why I subscribed.…

This is interesting: The records describe a force-generation mechanism for several General Staff components, including the GRU, Main Operational Directorate, and 8th Directorate, which is associated with protected communications, cryptography, and information security. […] The reporting also linked a 2024 Department No. 4 graduate, Aleksei Kondrashov, to Military Unit 74455, widely known as Sandworm. That unit has been associated with destructive cyber activity against Ukraine and other targets…

Nathan E. Sanders and I are writing a series of essays on real-world examples of democratic technologies for The Renovator . I haven’t been posting the full text on the blog because they’re a bit long, but here are links. Part 1 is about the Japanese digital democracy party, Team Mirai. Part 2 is about the Swiss Public AI model, Apertus. Part 3 is about the civic technologists of Open Knowledge Brazil. And the new one, Part 4 , is about civic AI in Scotland.

It sure seems like it. The stores confirmed to be affected include Fort Irwin , Calif.; F.E. Warren Air Force Base , Wyo.; Fort Huachuca , Ariz.; Naval Station Newport , R.I.; Columbus Air Force Base , Miss.; and Travis Air Force Base , Calif., according to announcements made online by each installation. Naval Air Station Lemoore, Calif., also experienced an outage, according to M. Elizabeth, writer of the Substack newsletter Signal and Silence . Each service declined to answer questions about …

Ugh : A tractor-trailer rollover sent a truckload of squid spilling into a Rhode Island roadway, leaving a stench as they sat in the road for hours in the summer heat. Local authorities have dubbed it the “Squidpocalypse of ’26.” That would be twenty tons of squid. 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.

This essay was written with Kasra Rafi, and originally appeared in The Guardian. Earlier this month, about 40 top mathematicians gathered at OpenAI’s offices to discuss the future of their profession. The meeting was off-the-record, but if recent articles by mathematicians are any guide, it was mostly pretty glum. People fear for their jobs, their careers and the work they love. We think the contrary view is more likely, at least in the short-term. AI models are nowhere near as capable as exper…

OpenAI disrupted a social engineering group from Cambodia that used ChatGPT. Its scope is impressive: The network simultaneously conducted multiple types of scams, often blending elements from different schemes. For instance, operators used dating personas to build trust before introducing fraudulent investment opportunities involving cryptocurrencies and spot gold trading. Other users engaged in lengthy romantic conversations with targets using fictitious identities, posed as representatives o…

The New York Times has a long article ( alt link ) on surveillance systems aimed at babies. They are increasingly using AI. Nanit and its rivals want to own 24/7 health tracking for the sub-four-foot set. And their already astonishing levels of baby data collection are just the beginning. Nanit recently raised $50 million from investors to expand its use of A.I. and use its camera to track speech and language development, motor skills and more, while extending its presence in children’s bedroom…