$536 and 8 Hours: AI Learns to Attack a Different PLC
$536 and 8 Hours: AI Learns to Attack a Different PLC Pierluigi Paganini September 02, 2026 Experts got Claude to...
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Rewiring Democracy Series on The Renovator
Rewiring Democracy Series on The Renovator Nathan E. Sanders and I are writing a series of essays on real-world examples...
Hiding Prompt Injection in Legal Filing
About Bruce SchneierI am a public-interest technologist, working at the intersection of security, technology, and people. I've been writing about...
AI Governance Has a Control Problem, Not a Policy Problem
Autonomy is scaling faster than assuranceConsider a relatively simple AI agent. It might be able to:Read information from internal systems Search...
AI Doesn’t Mean the End of Mathematics—at Least Not Yet
AI Doesn’t Mean the End of Mathematics—at Least Not Yet This essay was written with Kasra Rafi, and originally appeared...
Ring’s New TAKE Encryption Deletes Video Keys Without Giving Up AI Features
Ring has a new answer to a difficult security-camera trade-off: keeping cloud-powered intelligence without retaining long-term access to the keys...
LLM-Based Social Engineering Scams
LLM-Based Social Engineering Scams OpenAI disrupted a social engineering group from Cambodia that used ChatGPT. Its scope is impressive: The...
Spyware for Babies
Spyware for Babies The New York Times has a long article (alt link) on surveillance systems aimed at babies. They...
When the Algorithm Fires You: Uber Faces €825M Fine
When the Algorithm Fires You: Uber Faces €825M Fine Pierluigi Paganini August 25, 2026 Uber faces an €825M GDPR fine...
Black Hat State of Security Vendors
Black Hat State of Security Vendors Andy Ellis has a roundup of the security vendors at Black Hat this year....
Microsoft Exchange Server SE CU1 Delayed Amid AI-Assisted Security Reviews
Microsoft’s next major Exchange Server update is still waiting for a clear runway. Exchange Server Subscription Edition Cumulative Update 1...
AI Is Learning to Write Genetic Code
AI Is Learning to Write Genetic Code This sort of research is both exciting and terrifying: The two models in...
More Incidents of AIs Going Rogue in Cybersecurity Challenges
More Incidents of AIs Going Rogue in Cybersecurity Challenges The AI Security Institute has a new report of AI systems...
NSA, CISA, FBI, DOE, and EPA Warn of Active AI-Assisted Attacks on Siemens S7 PLCs
NSA, CISA, FBI, DOE, and EPA Warn of Active AI-Assisted Attacks on Siemens S7 PLCs Pierluigi Paganini August 20, 2026...
FreeBSD Released the Most Security Advisories in Project History in June 2026
On average, the FreeBSD security team releases about 2 security advisories per month. AI has changed this. In April, the project...
