Weekend Reads 081823


A group of academics has devised a “deep learning-based acoustic side-channel attack” that can be used to classify laptop keystrokes that are recorded using a nearby phone with 95% accuracy.


Of all vertical industries, manufacturing saw a 42% increase in total victims between Q4 2021 and Q4 2022, underscoring the potential threat to global supply chains.


In this article, we discuss the constant back and forth that has been going on for the last 5 years or so in protecting the privacy of data through FL. Just when it looks like FL is able to keep local data private, out comes a study to deflate us.


New research has revealed that threat actors are abusing Cloudflare Tunnels to establish covert communication channels from compromised hosts and retain persistent access.


Luckily there is a huge amount of research underway to look for batteries that last longer, charge faster, and are made from more readily available minerals.


Vade’s Threat Intelligence and Response Center (TIRC) researchers analyzed what they dubbed the “Eevilcorp phishing campaign” and the malware its perpetrators used in depth.


The latest quarterly report from Backblaze on hard drive reliability reveals a rise in failures among certain drives.


In 2020 a group of book publishers sued the Internet Archive over their Controlled Digital Lending program, which made PDF scans of books and lent them out from the Archive’s website.


But a recent survey has many such executives admitting exactly that: they didn’t have the data and they just went with their gut.


Email security standards are proving porous where malicious email attacks are concerned, since attackers use a deceptive link or new domains that comply with the same email security standards regular users employ to blunt threats like phishing, according to a vendor report released this week.

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