If you don't subscribe to Bruce Schneier's newsletter, you really should. But in case you don't, here're some highlights. This comes from the fact that I usually want to post 90%+ of the things he links, so I figured it'd be better to do it in one post rather than a bunch.
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A recent study finds that, for Americans of European descent, there is a 60% chance that you can be identified based on samples given by your relatives to a commercial genomics site. This is true even if you yourself haven't given them anything.
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As cellphone infrastructure increases in an area, so does poaching. It's apparently due to a combination of better on-site coordination by poachers and access to additional information such as geotagged images.
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Companies that make smart home stuff won't generally say whether or to what extent the data they collect may be given to law enforcement.
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China Telecom is using a routing protocol to sweep up massive amounts of U.S. and Canadian internet traffic.
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The arms race on producing versus detecting fake videos continues.
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An essay Schneier wrote about cellphone security, starting with the recent brouhaha about Trump using an insecure phone.
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Voting machine security remains abysmal.
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Research finds major vulnerabilities in hardware-based encryption of SSDs. Even more worryingly, BitLocker (the Windows full-disc encryption setup) will only use hardware-based encryption if it's available.
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The Federal Trade Commission is suing D-Link because of how insecure their routers are. Meanwhile, Consumer Reports looked at the security of some of their wireless home security cameras, and found it to be seriously lacking.
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The Pentagon has begun uploading other nation states' malware to VirusTotal.