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Security News for the Week Ending December 29, 2023

AI and the End of Privacy A couple of Stanford grad students have written an AI app that using a very small dataset (400,000 images) can detect your location. PIGEON, as the project is called, can predict the country of the image with 92 percent accuracy and provide location within 25 kilometers in 40 percent […]

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Security News for the Week Ending December 15, 2023

Joe Sullivan, Convicted Former Uber CISO, Speaks Out Sullivan spoke at Black Hat Europe. Unfortunately, he did not say much directly about the case because he is appealing it, but he did have some interesting thoughts about where CISOs are headed and what you should or should not do. I didn’t know this but he […]

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May 7th, 2025 – Let the Chaos Begin

Real ID, a misguided effort by the feds to make everyone have a less easily fakeable driver’s license (notice I did not say a secure driver’s license) came out of the 9-11 attacks. For the last 20 years the feds have been trying to get the states to implement the law, with many states resisting […]

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Security News for the Week Ending December 1, 2023

Montana and Indiana TikTok Ban Stunts Unsurprisingly Fail in Court Both Indiana and Montana passed laws completely banning TikTok – both at the app store and private citizen level. Given that these laws were political stunts designed to try and impress voters, it is not surprising that they failed in court. The courts struck down […]

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