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Reverse-Engineering Ticketmaster’s Barcode System

Schneier on Security

Interesting : By reverse-engineering how Ticketmaster and AXS actually make their electronic tickets, scalpers have essentially figured out how to regenerate specific, genuine tickets that they have legally purchased from scratch onto infrastructure that they control.

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Social Engineering to Disable iMessage Protections

Schneier on Security

I am always interested in new phishing tricks, and watching them spread across the ecosystem. A few days ago I started getting phishing SMS messages with a new twist. They were standard messages about delayed packages or somesuch, with the goal of getting me to click on a link and entering some personal information into a website.

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Clever Social Engineering Attack Using Captchas

Schneier on Security

This is really interesting. It’s a phishing attack targeting GitHub users, tricking them to solve a fake Captcha that actually runs a script that is copied to the command line.

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Can Security Experts Leverage Generative AI Without Prompt Engineering Skills?

Tech Republic Security

A study at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute presented at ISC2 Security Congress compared ChatGPT-written training prompted by security experts and prompt engineers.

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Software Engineering Radio

Adam Shostack

I enjoyed being a guest on Software Engineering Radio in this in depth interview. I enjoyed being a guest on Software Engineering Radio: Adam Shostack on Threat Modeling. It's a substantial, in depth interview, running nearly 80 minutes, and covering a wide variety of topics.

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News alert: Sweet Security’s LLM-powered detection engine reduces cloud noise to 0.04%

The Last Watchdog

15, 2025, CyberNewswire — Sweet Security , a leader in cloud runtime detection and response, today announced the launch of its groundbreaking patent-pending Large Language Model (LLM)-powered cloud detection engine. Tel Aviv, Israel, Jan. For more information, users can visit [link].

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People Are Increasingly Choosing Private Web Search

Schneier on Security

The privacy-oriented search engine netted more than 35 billion search queries in 2021 , a 46.4% It’s not as a good a search engine as Google. To solve that, I use use the feature that allows me to use Google’s search engine through DuckDuckGo: prepend “!Google” jump over 2020 (23.6 That’s big.