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In the first week of January, the pharmaceutical giant Merck quietly settled its years-long lawsuit over whether or not its property and casualty insurers would cover a $700 million claim…

[[{"value":"Always be wary of opening unsolicited attachments - they might harbour malware. That's a message that is being strongly underlined once again, following the discovery of a cybercrime campaign that…

[[{"value":"Surprise! The LockBit ransomware group has re-emerged, just days after a high-profile law enforcement operation seized control of its infrastructure and disrupted its operations. Read more in my article on…

[[{"value":"Apple announced PQ3, its post-quantum encryption standard based on the Kyber secure key-encapsulation protocol, one of the post-quantum algorithms selected by NIST in 2022. There’s a lot of detail in…

[[{"value":"There are correlations between the populations of the Illex Argentines squid and water temperatures. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in…

[[{"value":"Prescription orders across the United States are reportedly being delayed after a cyber attack impacted a healthcare technology firm that supplies services to pharmacies, including CVS Health. Read more in…

Check out my "live reaction" (isn't that what all the kids post on social media these days?) to the much-hyped revelation of the identity of the LockBit ransomware's administrator. Read More  

[[{"value":"Simon Willison has been playing with the video processing capabilities of the new Gemini Pro 1.5 model from Google, and it’s really impressive. Which means a lot of scary new…

[[{"value":"A huge reward is being offered for information leading to the identification or location of any of the leaders of the LockBit ransomware gang. Read more in my article on…

[[{"value":"First-person account of someone who fell for a scam, that started as a fake Amazon service rep and ended with a fake CIA agent, and lost $50,000 cash. And this…

[[{"value":"The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that breaking end-to-end encryption by adding backdoors violates human rights: Seemingly most critically, the [Russian] government told the ECHR that any intrusion…

[[{"value":"It uses black beans for color and seaweed for flavor. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I…