[Link] Web trust dies in darkness: Hidden Certificate Authorities undermine public crypto infrastructure

Read: 22/11/2021 www.theregister.com

Security researchers have checked the web's public key infrastructure and have measured a long-known but little-analyzed security threat: hidden root Certificate Authorities. Certificate Authorities, or CAs, vouch for the digital certificates we use to establish trust online.

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[Link] Hackers are stealing data today so quantum computers can crack it in a decade

Read: 9/11/2021 www.technologyreview.com

The threat comes from quantum computers, which work very differently from the classical computers we use today. Instead of the traditional bits made of 1s and 0s, they use quantum bits that can represent different values at the same time.

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[Link] The 14-Year-Old Who Founded Girls Who Hack Is Inspiring the Next Generation of Hackers

Read: 25/10/2021 www.vice.com

Bianca Lewis, or as she is known in the hacker world: BiaSciLab, is part of the next generation of hackers. At 14 years old, she has already made a name for herself in hacker conference circles when a few years ago, she was among a group of kids that hacked into an election reporting system.

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[Link] Black-Box Attacks on Perceptual Image Hashes with GANs

Read: 7/8/2021 towardsdatascience.com

A Perceptual image hash (PIH) is a short hexadecimal string (e.g. ‘00081c3c3c181818’ ) based on an image’s appearance. Perceptual image hashes, despite being hashes, are not cryptographically secure hashes.

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[Link] Apple Introduces Parental Control Feature That Scans Messages for Nudity

Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com

Apple plans to introduce a new feature that would scan messages sent to and by child users of iPhones to determine if the images contain nudity, the company announced on Thursday. The move is a major development in the ongoing debate around privacy and the inspection of communications.

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