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Ukraine to secure $6.9 billion in arbitration from Russian Gazprom, Zelensky says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/20/ukraine-to-secure-billion-in.html

EVA-S2PMLP: Secure and Scalable Two-Party MLP via Spatial Transformation
Shizhao Peng, Shoumo Li, Tianle Tao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15102 https://

EVA-S2PMLP: Secure and Scalable Two-Party MLP via Spatial Transformation
Privacy-preserving neural network training in vertically partitioned scenarios is vital for secure collaborative modeling across institutions. This paper presents \textbf{EVA-S2PMLP}, an Efficient, Verifiable, and Accurate Secure Two-Party Multi-Layer Perceptron framework that introduces spatial-scale optimization for enhanced privacy and performance. To enable reliable computation under real-number domain, EVA-S2PMLP proposes a secure transformation pipeline that maps scalar inputs to vector a…

https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/stand_with_francesca_loc/

Nobel Peace Prize for Francesca Albanese and the doctors of Gaza
Netanyahu just nominated Trump for the Nobel peace prize. Let’s show that the world thinks - Francesca and Gaza doctors deserve it instead!

When Secure Aggregation Falls Short: Achieving Long-Term Privacy in Asynchronous Federated Learning for LEO Satellite Networks
Mohamed Elmahallawy, Tie Luo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13425

When Secure Aggregation Falls Short: Achieving Long-Term Privacy in Asynchronous Federated Learning for LEO Satellite Networks
Secure aggregation is a common technique in federated learning (FL) for protecting data privacy from both curious internal entities (clients or server) and external adversaries (eavesdroppers). However, in dynamic and resource-constrained environments such as low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite networks, traditional secure aggregation methods fall short in two aspects: (1) they assume continuous client availability while LEO satellite visibility is intermittent and irregular; (2) they consider priv…

Anti-Cheat in "Battlefield 6": "Secure Boot ist kein Wundermittel"
Im Kampf gegen Cheater setzt "Battlefield 6" auf Secure Boot. Laut den Entwicklern wurden 300.000 Cheat-Versuche gestoppt. Doch perfekt ist das System nicht.

Q&A with Pavel Durov on his arrest in France, Macron, Russia, the FBI, the fight for Telegram, leaving his wealth to the 100 children he fathered, and more (Guillaume Grallet/Le Point)
https://www.

EXCLUSIVE. Pavel Durov on his arrest in France, Macron, Russia, the FBI — and the fight for Telegram
INTERVIEW. "Le Point" met with the co-founder and CEO of the secure messaging app Telegram, who was charged in August 2024. A sweeping discussion on politics, power and democracy.

Så har jeg også skrevet under på opfordringen til at give Nobels fredspris til Francesca Albanese
https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/stand_with_francesca_loc/?copy&u…

Nobel Peace Prize for Francesca Albanese and the doctors of Gaza
Netanyahu just nominated Trump for the Nobel peace prize. Let’s show that the world thinks - Francesca and Gaza doctors deserve it instead!

Secure Time-Modulated Intelligent Reflecting Surface via Generative Flow Networks
Zhihao Tao, Athina P. Petropulu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14992 https://…

Secure Time-Modulated Intelligent Reflecting Surface via Generative Flow Networks
We propose a novel directional modulation (DM) design for OFDM transmitters aided by a time-modulated intelligent reflecting surface (TM-IRS). The TM-IRS is configured to preserve the integrity of transmitted signals toward multiple legitimate users while scrambling the signal in all other directions. Existing TM-IRS design methods typically target a single user direction and follow predefined rule-based procedures, making them unsuitable for multi-user scenarios. Here, we propose a generative …

Password compromise is no joke;
it leads to account compromise and that leads to, well, the compromise of most everything you hold dear in this technological-centric world.
It’s why Google is telling billions of users to replace their passwords with more secure passkeys.
It’s why the FBI is warning people not to click on links in SMS messages.
It’s why stolen passwords are up for sale, in their millions, on the dark web to anyone with the very little amount of cas…

16 Billion Apple, Facebook, Google And Other Passwords Leaked — Act Now
Change all your account passwords now — don’t wait: 16 billion credentials are confirmed as having been leaked.

Watching the second to last season of SVU (wifey loves it) and the cops just got info from being in a Discord server. Realistic. The FBI are all over Discord too. Always keep that in mind. Say nothing sensitive there. Discord servers are NOT secure, the authorities can always easily get in, and they often do.
#Discord #privacy

Hmm. I got thinking. I know, I really shouldn’t…
HTTPS “creates a secure channel over an insecure network” - and this is pretty much the definition of a VPN.
So, now we look at the Ofcom website and it redirects all visitors to use https (a temporary vpn, essentially) instead of accessing the site directly.
Are they breaking the very rule they demand?
#osa

Interestingly, “having been briefed” does not entail “understood the matter presented”
https://journa.host/@w7voa/114710877076030406

Can we start a #ResignNOW #ThankYouForYourAttention campaign across platforms citing his misdeeds?
https://masto.ai/@Non…

Can we start a #ResignNOW #ThankYouForYourAttention campaign across platforms citing his misdeeds?
https://masto.ai/@Non…

"Libxml2’s solo maintainer drops embargoed security fixes, highlighting the burden on unpaid volunteers who keep critical open source software secure."
https://socket.dev/blog/libxml2-maintainer-ends-embargoed-vulnerability-reports

Secure Pinching Antenna-aided ISAC
Elmehdi Illi, Marwa Qaraqe, Ali Ghrayeb
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13131 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

Secure Pinching Antenna-aided ISAC
In this letter, a pinching antenna (PA)-aided scheme for establishing a secure integrated sensing and communication system (ISAC) is investigated. The underlying system comprises a dual-functional radar communication (DFRC) base station (BS) linked to multiple waveguides to serve several downlink users while sensing a set of malicious targets in a given area. The PA-aided BS aims at preserving communication confidentiality with the legitimate users while being able to detect malicious targets. …

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/operation-secure-disrupts-global-infostealer-malware-operations/
Operation Secure disrupts global infostealer malware operations

Operation Secure disrupts global infostealer malware operations
An international law enforcement action codenamed "Operation Secure" targeted infostealer malware infrastructure in a massive crackdown across 26 countries, resulting in 32 arrests, data seizures, and server takedowns.

There's a scarily good fake Cloudflare page that asks you to run commands on your computer - I saw it myself earlier this week. Don't copy and run commands from strange sites! https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/…

Fake Cloudflare CAPTCHA page laden with malware uncovered in the wild - here's how to stay secure and safe
ClickFix launches with keyboard shortcuts and is scarily effective

Toward a Lightweight, Scalable, and Parallel Secure Encryption Engine
Rasha Karakchi, Rye Stahle-Smith, Nishant Chinnasami, Tiffany Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15070

Toward a Lightweight, Scalable, and Parallel Secure Encryption Engine
The exponential growth of Internet of Things (IoT) applications has intensified the demand for efficient, high-throughput, and energy-efficient data processing at the edge. Conventional CPU-centric encryption methods suffer from performance bottlenecks and excessive data movement, especially in latency-sensitive and resource-constrained environments. In this paper, we present SPiME, a lightweight, scalable, and FPGA-compatible Secure Processor-in-Memory Encryption architecture that integrates t…

As long as error messages like this can happen, I refuse consider the possibility that matrix could be a secure messaging solution for the masses. I mean... you can't be serious?
If your goal is average users, your No 1 design principle must be that you never bother users with the details of your technical design, which they don't understand anyway. That's a main reason why PGP failed, and people still don't get it. (I mean... I don't understand what that means, and …

May 2025 recap | The latest edition of the GÉANT School of Software Engineering, hosted by PCSS, brought together developers and experts from across Europe to explore generative #AI tools, risks, secure coding practices.
Highlights:
🔹#GenAI Buzz-Free Programming with LLMs – training by Maciej Łabędzki…

Responsible AI in Practice: Shaping a Safer Future for AI-Powered Software Development | GÉANT CONNECT Online
Poznań, 20–22 May 2025 — The latest edition of the GÉANT School of Software Engineering, held at the Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC), brought together top-tier developers and experts from across Europe for a deep-dive into generative AI tools, risks, and secure coding practices. At the core of the event was the acclaimed training

Call For a Ban on Horse-Drawn Carriages in Mallorca #AnimalRights

Call for a Ban on Horse-Drawn Carriages in Mallorca
Dozens of horses on the Spanish island are forced to pull tourist carriages until they collapse from exhaustion. Join us in calling for a ban on this cruel practice.

The Domination and Secure Domination Numbers of Direct Product of Cliques with Paths and Cycles
Deepak M. Bakal, S. A. Mane
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11865

The Domination and Secure Domination Numbers of Direct Product of Cliques with Paths and Cycles
In this paper, we obtain the exact values of several domination parameters for the direct product of a complete graph with a path or a cycle. Specifically, we determine the domination number, independent domination number, $[1,2]$-domination number, secure domination number, and 2-domination number for this family of graphs. We show that, in these graphs, the independent domination number and the $[1,2]$-domination number coincide with the domination number, while the secure domination number c…

SHIELD: A Secure and Highly Enhanced Integrated Learning for Robust Deepfake Detection against Adversarial Attacks
Kutub Uddin, Awais Khan, Muhammad Umar Farooq, Khalid Malik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13170

SHIELD: A Secure and Highly Enhanced Integrated Learning for Robust Deepfake Detection against Adversarial Attacks
Audio plays a crucial role in applications like speaker verification, voice-enabled smart devices, and audio conferencing. However, audio manipulations, such as deepfakes, pose significant risks by enabling the spread of misinformation. Our empirical analysis reveals that existing methods for detecting deepfake audio are often vulnerable to anti-forensic (AF) attacks, particularly those attacked using generative adversarial networks. In this article, we propose a novel collaborative learning me…

A Fast, Reliable, and Secure Programming Language for LLM Agents with Code Actions
Stephen Mell, Botong Zhang, David Mell, Shuo Li, Ramya Ramalingam, Nathan Yu, Steve Zdancewic, Osbert Bastani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12202

A Fast, Reliable, and Secure Programming Language for LLM Agents with Code Actions
Modern large language models (LLMs) are often deployed as agents, calling external tools adaptively to solve tasks. Rather than directly calling tools, it can be more effective for LLMs to write code to perform the tool calls, enabling them to automatically generate complex control flow such as conditionals and loops. Such code actions are typically provided as Python code, since LLMs are quite proficient at it; however, Python may not be the ideal language due to limited built-in support for p…

Skriv ubder för att stödja att israel släpper in mjölk till spädbarn https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/let_milk_into_gaza_loc/?copy&utm_source=copy&utm_medium=social_s…

Secure API-Driven Research Automation to Accelerate Scientific Discovery
Tyler J. Skluzacek, Paul Bryant, A. J. Ruckman, Daniel Rosendo, Suzanne Prentice, Michael J. Brim, Ryan Adamson, Sarp Oral, Mallikarjun Shankar, Rafael Ferreira da Silva
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11950

Secure API-Driven Research Automation to Accelerate Scientific Discovery
The Secure Scientific Service Mesh (S3M) provides API-driven infrastructure to accelerate scientific discovery through automated research workflows. By integrating near real-time streaming capabilities, intelligent workflow orchestration, and fine-grained authorization within a service mesh architecture, S3M revolutionizes programmatic access to high performance computing (HPC) while maintaining uncompromising security. This framework allows intelligent agents and experimental facilities to dyn…

This is what I always say: "It doesn't actually matter how cryptographically secure your end-to-end encryption is when 1 entity controls all ends and can instantly update them whenever they want." https://www.moparisthebest.com/against-silos-signal/

so.... did Trump leave early so he could get onto a secure/safe space - ie. Air Force One - before Israel did something brash?
this is pure speculation on my part. All I have seen is what most others have, that he is leaving because of #IsraelIranWat

Robust Beamforming Design for Secure Near-Field ISAC Systems
Ziqiang CHen, Feng Wang, Guojun Han, Xin Wang, Vincent K. N. Lau
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12881

Robust Beamforming Design for Secure Near-Field ISAC Systems
This letter investigates the robust beamforming design for a near-field secure integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system with multiple communication users (CUs) and targets, as well as multiple eavesdroppers. Taking into account the channel uncertainty constraints, we maximize the minimum sensing beampattern gain for targets, subject to the minimum signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) constraint for each CU and the maximum SINR constraint for each eavesdropper, as well as the…

I would like to see an initiative that evaluates messaging services that promise encryption and document the findings. For example, a service may claim that emails are encrypted and secure. However, if the secret keys are managed on infrastructure controlled by the service without further protection, there are limitations, and I wouldn't call it end-to-end encryption. I think it would be useful to have a neutral web page where users could lookup the security levels of services (or apps).…

Google’s insists data it holds is secure and it won’t create lock-in for the UK government, but do the answers match the ambition?
https://www.computing.co.uk/interview/2025/exclusive-google-defends-uk-deal-data-sovereignty-concerns

Exclusive: Google defends UK deal amid data sovereignty concerns
Google’s insists data it holds is secure and it won’t create lock-in for the UK government, but do the answers match the ambition?

De hŸjreradikale partier i Europaparlamentet er ved at fjerne EU’s tiltag på klimaområdet. Avaaz kŸrer en kampagne for at vise dem hvor upopulær en beslutning det er. Overvej at skrive under her: https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/eu_save_the_green_deal_1_1/

The far right are trying to destroy the Green Deal
We need to do everything we can to stop them - here’s how.

Protect your privacy – Start now with Signal
 
Autocracies always implement broad surveillance methods in order to identify and punish resistance. Surveillance can take many forms including the capture of your social media posts and email, monitoring your connections to web sites, and preventing the use of private communications through encryption back-doors and other means.
 
Take action now to create ways to communicate privately with your family, friends and colleague…

Anti-Cheat: "Battlefield 6" und "Call of Duty Black Ops 7" brauchen Secure Boot
Um vor Cheatern zu schützen, setzten sowohl "Battlefield 6" als auch "Call of Duty Black Ops 7" UEFI Secure Boot voraus. Fans müssen es aktivieren.

Secure quantum key distribution against correlated leakage source
Jia-Xuan Li, Yang-Guang Shan, Rong Wang, Feng-Yu Lu, Zhen-Qiang Yin, Shuang Wang, Wei Chen, De-Yong He, Guang-Can Guo, Zheng-Fu Han
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11251

Secure quantum key distribution against correlated leakage source
Quantum key distribution (QKD) provides information theoretic security based on quantum mechanics, however, its practical deployment is challenged by imperfections of source devices. Among various source loopholes, correlations between transmitted pulses pose a significant yet underexplored security risk, potentially compromising QKD's theoretical guarantees. In this work, we propose a security analysis framework for QKD under correlations, enabling finite-key analysis for the first time by ext…

Marco Rubio Repeatedly Put on the Spot for Trump's Failure to Secure Ukraine Cease-Fire Deal | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/marco-rubio-trump-russia

President Trump signs the GENIUS Act, and says the first federal bill to regulate stablecoins will "secure the dollar's status as the world's reserve currency" (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

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SecFSM: Knowledge Graph-Guided Verilog Code Generation for Secure Finite State Machines in Systems-on-Chip
Ziteng Hu, Yingjie Xia, Xiyuan Chen, Li Kuang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12910

SecFSM: Knowledge Graph-Guided Verilog Code Generation for Secure Finite State Machines in Systems-on-Chip
Finite State Machines (FSMs) play a critical role in implementing control logic for Systems-on-Chip (SoC). Traditionally, FSMs are implemented by hardware engineers through Verilog coding, which is often tedious and time-consuming. Recently, with the remarkable progress of Large Language Models (LLMs) in code generation, LLMs have been increasingly explored for automating Verilog code generation. However, LLM-generated Verilog code often suffers from security vulnerabilities, which is particula…

Watched the remake of The Amateur, wherein a team of people analyse devices, cctv, etc in order to determine how someone might have snuck a couple of sensitive pdf files out of a secure building.

Retrieval-augmented reasoning with lean language models
Ryan Sze-Yin Chan, Federico Nanni, Tomas Lazauskas, Rosie Wood, Penelope Yong, Lionel Tarassenko, Mark Girolami, James Geddes, Andrew Duncan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11386

Retrieval-augmented reasoning with lean language models
This technical report details a novel approach to combining reasoning and retrieval augmented generation (RAG) within a single, lean language model architecture. While existing RAG systems typically rely on large-scale models and external APIs, our work addresses the increasing demand for performant and privacy-preserving solutions deployable in resource-constrained or secure environments. Building on recent developments in test-time scaling and small-scale reasoning models, we develop a retrie…

Haptic-Based User Authentication for Tele-robotic System
Rongyu Yu, Kan Chen, Zeyu Deng, Chen Wang, Burak Kizilkaya, Liying Emma Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14116

Haptic-Based User Authentication for Tele-robotic System
Tele-operated robots rely on real-time user behavior mapping for remote tasks, but ensuring secure authentication remains a challenge. Traditional methods, such as passwords and static biometrics, are vulnerable to spoofing and replay attacks, particularly in high-stakes, continuous interactions. This paper presents a novel anti-spoofing and anti-replay authentication approach that leverages distinctive user behavioral features extracted from haptic feedback during human-robot interactions. To …

Cowboys Urged to Fill QB2 Role With Former No. 2 Overall Pick https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/sign-free-agent-quarterback-carson-wentz/?adt_ei=[email]

Help Bulls Tormented in Spain’s Seaside Festivals #AnimalRights

Help Stop Bull Abuse in Spain’s Seaside Festivals
Tormented and forced into the sea, urge Spanish officials to stop abusing bulls in the Bous a la Mar festivals.

Thanks to @… for showing me how it's possible to add CA certs to tvOS which got the Infuse client working with custom certs. Everything looks great, put Jellyfin's `8096` port on localhost, and `nginx` is doing what it's supposed to: service secure content. Both Apple TVs have the certs installed and both are able to pull content from Jellyfin …

Ethereum Crypto Wallets under Address Poisoning: How Usable and Secure Are They?
Shixuan Guan, Kai Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12107 https://arxiv.org/pd…

Ethereum Crypto Wallets under Address Poisoning: How Usable and Secure Are They?
Blockchain address poisoning is an emerging phishing attack that crafts "similar-looking" transfer records in the victim's transaction history, which aims to deceive victims and lure them into mistakenly transferring funds to the attacker. Recent works have shown that millions of Ethereum users were targeted and lost over 100 million US dollars. Ethereum crypto wallets, serving users in browsing transaction history and initiating transactions to transfer funds, play a central role in deployin…

Israel is counting on Trump to join the operation against Iran, now that the risks of failure and downed planes have been minimised.
“The whole operation is premised on the fact that the US will join at some point,” an Israeli official told CNN.
“We are waiting for the decision of the president,” another senior official told the network.
Israel has yet to attack Iran’s most secure enrichment facility, at Fordow, which is built into a mountain with up to 100 metres of rock abo…

Interference-Asymmetric UAV Remote Control Links: Measurements and Performance Evaluation
Donggu Lee, Sung Joon Maeng, Ozgur Ozdemir, Mani Bharathi Pandian, Ismail Guvenc
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12941

Interference-Asymmetric UAV Remote Control Links: Measurements and Performance Evaluation
Reliable and secure connectivity is crucial for remote control (RC) and uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) links. A major problem for UAV RC links is that interference sources within the coverage may degrade the link quality. Such interference problems are a higher concern for the UAV than the RC unit on the ground due to the UAV being in line of sight (LoS) with a larger number of interference sources. As a result, lost hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) indicators (ACK/NACK) feedback in the …

A Framework of Distributed Source Encryption using Mutual Information Security Criterion and the Strong Converse Theorem
Yasutada Oohama, Bagus Santoso
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13294

A Framework of Distributed Source Encryption using Mutual Information Security Criterion and the Strong Converse Theorem
We reinvestigate the general distributed secure source coding based on the common key cryptosystem proposed by Oohama and Santoso (ITW 2021). They proposed a framework of distributed source encryption and derived the necessary and sufficient conditions to have reliable and secure transmission. However, the bounds of the rate region, which specifies both necessary and sufficient conditions to have reliable and secure transmission under the proposed cryptosystem, were derived based on a self-tail…

Check out today's Metacurity to stay on top of the never-ending overload of infosec developments, including
--Operation Secure disrupts infostealer malware groups worldwide
--Microsoft 365 Copilot harbored critical 'EchoLeak' security flaw,
--FIN6 targets LinkedIn recruiters,
--Smart watches can steal data from air-gapped systems,
--Cybercrims stole NHS Active Directory database,
--Two journalists hacked using Paragon spyware,
--Ransomware…

Operation Secure disrupts infostealer malware groups worldwide
Microsoft 365 Copilot harbored critical 'EchoLeak' security flaw, FIN6 targets LinkedIn recruiters. Smart watches can steal data in air-gapped systems, Cybercrims stole NHS Active Directory database, Two journalists hacked using Paragon spyware, Ransomware hits large hospitals in Maine, much more

Civil Servants as Builders: Enabling Non-IT Staff to Develop Secure Python and R Tools
Prashant Sharma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07203 https://arxiv.org/p…

Civil Servants as Builders: Enabling Non-IT Staff to Develop Secure Python and R Tools
Current digital government literature focuses on professional in-house IT teams, specialized digital service teams, vendor-developed systems, or proprietary low-code/no-code tools. Almost no scholarship addresses a growing middle ground: technically skilled civil servants outside formal IT roles who can write real code but lack a sanctioned, secure path to deploy their work. This paper introduces a limits-aware, open-source and replicable platform that enables such public servants to develop, p…

Model Predictive Black Start for Dynamic Formation of DER-Led Microgrids with Inrush Current Impacts
Cong Bai, Salish Maharjan, Zhaoyu Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12569

Model Predictive Black Start for Dynamic Formation of DER-Led Microgrids with Inrush Current Impacts
Black start (BS) of the distribution system (DS) with high penetration of distributed energy resources (DERs) requires advanced control frameworks to ensure secure and efficient restoration. This paper proposes a model predictive black start (MPBS) framework incorporating an inrush current feasibility module to dynamically generate real-time feasible and optimal restoration sequences. Short-term forecasts of DER output and transmission grid (TG) availability are utilized to construct adaptive c…

Curious how many folks here are running secureblue and GrapheneOS?
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secureblue is a security-focused desktop and server Linux operating system, developed as an open-source project.
https://secureblue.dev
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The private and secure mobile operating system …

Silentflow: Leveraging Trusted Execution for Resource-Limited MPC via Hardware-Algorithm Co-design
Zhuoran Li, Hanieh Totonchi Asl, Ebrahim Nouri, Yifei Cai, Danella Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13357

Silentflow: Leveraging Trusted Execution for Resource-Limited MPC via Hardware-Algorithm Co-design
Secure Multi-Party Computation (MPC) offers a practical foundation for privacy-preserving machine learning at the edge, with MPC commonly employed to support nonlinear operations. These MPC protocols fundamentally rely on Oblivious Transfer (OT), particularly Correlated OT (COT), to generate correlated randomness essential for secure computation. Although COT generation is efficient in conventional two-party settings with resource-rich participants, it becomes a critical bottleneck in real-worl…

Finite-correlation-secure quantum key distribution
Yang-Guang Shan, Jia-Xuan Li, Zhen-Qiang Yin, Shuang Wang, Wei Chen, De-Yong He, Guang-Can Guo, Zheng-Fu Han
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11243

Finite-correlation-secure quantum key distribution
Correlation between different pulses is a nettlesome problem in quantum key distribution (QKD). All existing solutions for this problem need to characterize the strength of the correlation, which may reduce the security of QKD to an accurate characterization. In this article, we propose a new protocol immune to all correlations of all dimensions, with the only requirements of non-entangled and finite-ranged correlation, and bounded vacuum probability. Additionally, the new protocol is side-chan…

A look at OpenAI's campaign over the past year to secure its transition from a nonprofit, led by a team of Democratic insiders in California (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/17/sam-altman-chatgpt-california-00449492

Cowboys, second-round pick finally agree to terms on eve of training camp https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/07/18/cowboys-reach-agreement-with-2025-second-round-pick/85267479007/

Ask TUI to Stop Supporting Orca Abuse #AnimalRights

Please ask TUI UK to stop supporting orca abuse
TUI UK continues to sell tickets to SeaWorld, despite being fully aware of the company's cruel treatment of animals for profit.

I don't get it. Don't these fools realize that San Francisco Bay lacks sharks and killer whales, and there are even swimming competitions from Alcatraz. It's just not secure.
Now on the other hand, building a jail on the Farallons, 26 miles into the Pacific, great white shark territory, killer whales now and then. Much more challenging to escape from than Alcatraz...

I don't get it. Don't these fools realize that San Francisco Bay lacks sharks and killer whales, and there are even swimming competitions from Alcatraz. It's just not secure.
Now on the other hand, building a jail on the Farallons, 26 miles into the Pacific, great white shark territory, killer whales now and then. Much more challenging to escape from than Alcatraz...

On secure UAV-aided ISCC systems
Hongjiang Lei, Congke Jiang, Ki-Hong Park, Mohamed A. Aboulhassan, Sen Zhou, Gaofeng Pan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13137 …

On secure UAV-aided ISCC systems
Integrated communication and sensing, which can make full use of the limited spectrum resources to perform communication and sensing tasks simultaneously, is an up-and-coming technology in wireless communication networks. In this work, we investigate the secrecy performance of an uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted secure integrated communication, sensing, and computing system, where the UAV sends radar signals to locate and disrupt potential eavesdroppers while providing offload services to…

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Microsofts Secure Future Initiative: "Bullshit!"
https://www.heise.de/en/opinion/Microsofts-Secure-Future-Initiative-Bullshit-10506153.html

Microsofts Secure Future Initiative: "Bullshit!"
With the Secure Future Initiative, Microsoft's bosses promised to make security a top priority. "It's all just security theater," says Jürgen Schmidt.

Fairness-Aware Secure Integrated Sensing and Communications with Fractional Programming
Ali Khandan Boroujeni, Kuranage Roche Rayan Ranasinghe, Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu, Stefan K\"opsell, Ghazal Bagheri, Rafael F. Schaefer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11224

Fairness-Aware Secure Integrated Sensing and Communications with Fractional Programming
We propose a novel secure integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) system designed to serve multiple communication users (CUs) and targets. To that end, we formulate an optimization problem that maximizes the secrecy rate under constraints balancing both communication and sensing requirements. To enhance fairness among users, an entropy-regularized fairness metric is introduced within the problem framework. We then propose a solution employing an accelerated quadratic transform (QT) with a …

Privacy-Preserving Fusion for Multi-Sensor Systems Under Multiple Packet Dropouts
Jie Huang, Jason J. R. Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13286 https://

Privacy-Preserving Fusion for Multi-Sensor Systems Under Multiple Packet Dropouts
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are critical components in modern cyber-physical systems, enabling efficient data collection and fusion through spatially distributed sensors. However, the inherent risks of eavesdropping and packet dropouts in such networks pose significant challenges to secure state estimation. In this paper, we address the privacy-preserving fusion estimation (PPFE) problem for multi-sensor systems under multiple packet dropouts and eavesdropping attacks. To mitigate these iss…

Certified randomness from quantum speed limits
Caroline L. Jones, Albert Aloy, Gerard Higgins, Markus P. Mueller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14526 https://

Certified randomness from quantum speed limits
Quantum speed limits are usually regarded as fundamental restrictions, constraining the amount of computation that can be achieved within some given time and energy. Complementary to this intuition, here we show that these limitations are also of operational value: they enable the secure generation of certified randomness. We consider a prepare-and-measure scenario with some (experimentally determined or promised) upper bound on the energy uncertainty of the average prepared quantum state, but …

‘I do not have confidence’ that US infrastructure is cyber-secure, former NSC official says
https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2025/06/i-do-not-have-confidence-us-infrastructure-cyber-secure-former-nsc-o…

‘I do not have confidence’ that US infrastructure is cyber-secure, former NSC official says
At the AI Expo for National Competitiveness, Anne Neuberger told audiences that artificial intelligence tools are an enhancement opportunity for U.S. cyber defenses and intelligence collection.

Linear and Numerical SDoF Bounds of Active RIS-Assisted MIMO Wiretap Interference Channel
Su Linfan, Miao Yuhang, Song Yuxuan, Zheng Shuo, Zhang Tong, Xu Yinfei, Wang Shuai, Li Na
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15073

Linear and Numerical SDoF Bounds of Active RIS-Assisted MIMO Wiretap Interference Channel
The multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wiretap interference channel (IC) serves as a canonical model for information-theoretic security, where a multiple-antenna eavesdropper attempts to intercept communications in a two-user MIMO IC system. The secure degrees-of-freedom (SDoF) of an active reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted MIMO wiretap IC is with practical interests but remains unexplored. In this paper, we establish both sum-SDoF lower and upper bounds through linear beamfo…

EBS-CFL: Efficient and Byzantine-robust Secure Clustered Federated Learning
Zhiqiang Li, Haiyong Bao, Menghong Guan, Hao Pan, Cheng Huang, Hong-Ning Dai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13612

EBS-CFL: Efficient and Byzantine-robust Secure Clustered Federated Learning
Despite federated learning (FL)'s potential in collaborative learning, its performance has deteriorated due to the data heterogeneity of distributed users. Recently, clustered federated learning (CFL) has emerged to address this challenge by partitioning users into clusters according to their similarity. However, CFL faces difficulties in training when users are unwilling to share their cluster identities due to privacy concerns. To address these issues, we present an innovative Efficient and R…

Intel's former CEO backs President Trump's proposed sovereign wealth fund to secure US leadership in quantum, AI, and chips and combat China's tech advances (Pat Gelsinger/Wall Street Journal)
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Help Sheep: Tell IKEA to Drop Wool #AnimalRights #wool

Tell IKEA to Drop Wool
Footage shows workers on New Zealand farms slicing lambs’ tails off without any pain relief, punching sheep in the face, and slamming them to the floor.

SecONNds: Secure Outsourced Neural Network Inference on ImageNet
Shashank Balla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11586 https://arxiv.org/pd…

SecONNds: Secure Outsourced Neural Network Inference on ImageNet
The widespread adoption of outsourced neural network inference presents significant privacy challenges, as sensitive user data is processed on untrusted remote servers. Secure inference offers a privacy-preserving solution, but existing frameworks suffer from high computational overhead and communication costs, rendering them impractical for real-world deployment. We introduce SecONNds, a non-intrusive secure inference framework optimized for large ImageNet-scale Convolutional Neural Networks. …

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Know Me by My Pulse: Toward Practical Continuous Authentication on Wearable Devices via Wrist-Worn PPG
Wei Shao, Zequan Liang, Ruoyu Zhang, Ruijie Fang, Ning Miao, Ehsan Kourkchi, Setareh Rafatirad, Houman Homayoun, Chongzhou Fang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13690

Know Me by My Pulse: Toward Practical Continuous Authentication on Wearable Devices via Wrist-Worn PPG
Biometric authentication using physiological signals offers a promising path toward secure and user-friendly access control in wearable devices. While electrocardiogram (ECG) signals have shown high discriminability, their intrusive sensing requirements and discontinuous acquisition limit practicality. Photoplethysmography (PPG), on the other hand, enables continuous, non-intrusive authentication with seamless integration into wrist-worn wearable devices. However, most prior work relies on high…

System design and realisation towards optimising secure key bits in free space QKD
Pooja Chandravanshi, Jayanth Ramakrishnan, Tanya Sharma, Ayan Biswas, Ravindra P. Singh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10458

System design and realisation towards optimising secure key bits in free space QKD
Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) is rapidly transitioning from cutting-edge laboratory research to real-world deployment in established communication networks. Although QKD promises future-proof security, practical challenges stil exist due to imperfections in physical devices. Many protocols offer strong security guarantees, but their implementation can be complex and difficult. To bridge this gap, we present a practical and systematic framework for implementing QKD, focused on the BB84 protocol…

Multi-service messaging app Beeper relaunches, introducing premium offerings and the option to switch to an on-device model; Automattic acquired Beeper in 2024 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/16/beep

Beeper's all-in-one messaging app relaunches with an on-device model and premium upgrades | TechCrunch
Multi-service messaging app Beeper, which allows people to connect to all their chat apps from one interface, is relaunching its app on Wednesday to offer a more secure version that no longer requires use of its own cloud services.

Optimizing Scalar Selection in Elliptic Curve Cryptography Using Differential Evolution for Enhanced Security
Takreem Haider
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13520 https://

Optimizing Scalar Selection in Elliptic Curve Cryptography Using Differential Evolution for Enhanced Security
Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) is a fundamental component of modern public-key cryptosystems that enable efficient and secure digital signatures, key exchanges, and encryption. Its core operation, scalar multiplication, denoted as $k \cdot P$, where $P$ is a base point and $k$ is a private scalar, relies heavily on the secrecy and unpredictability of $k$. Conventionally, $k$ is selected using user input or pseudorandom number generators. However, in resource-constrained environments with wea…

A Compact Dynamic Omnidirectional Antenna
Sheng Huang, Jacob R. Randall, Cory Hilton, Jeffrey A. Nanzer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11351 https://

A Compact Dynamic Omnidirectional Antenna
We propose a novel omnidirectional antenna design incorporating directional modulation for secure narrow planar information transmission. The proposed antenna features a compact size and stable omnidirectional radiation performance by employing two tightly spaced, printed meander line monopole antennas, acting as a single radiating element. To achieve a narrow information secure region, the proposed antenna is fed by differential power excitation of two ports with real-time dynamic switching. T…

Evaluation Pipeline for systematically searching for Anomaly Detection Systems
Florian Rokohl, Alexander Lehnert, Marc Reichenbach
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15388

Evaluation Pipeline for systematically searching for Anomaly Detection Systems
Digitalization in the medical world provides major benefits while making it a target for attackers and thus hard to secure. To deal with network intruders we propose an anomaly detection system on hardware to detect malicious clients in real-time. We meet real-time and power restrictions using FPGAs. Overall system performance is achieved via the presented holistic system evaluation.

Cyber Risks to Next-Gen Brain-Computer Interfaces: Analysis and Recommendations
Tyler Schroder, Renee Sirbu, Sohee Park, Jessica Morley, Sam Street, Luciano Floridi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12571

Cyber Risks to Next-Gen Brain-Computer Interfaces: Analysis and Recommendations
Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) show enormous potential for advancing personalized medicine. However, BCIs also introduce new avenues for cyber-attacks or security compromises. In this article, we analyze the problem and make recommendations for device manufacturers to better secure devices and to help regulators understand where more guidance is needed to protect patient safety and data confidentiality. Device manufacturers should implement the prior suggestions in their BCI products. These r…

Pactum, which helps companies automate supplier negotiations with AI and secure more favorable contractual terms, raised a $54M Series C led by Insight Partners (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/09/pactum-raises-…

Pactum raises $54M for its procurement automation platform - SiliconANGLE
Pactum raises $54M for its procurement automation platform - SiliconANGLE

Tell Urban Outfitters to Drop Wool Now! #AnimalRights

Tell Urban Outfitters to Drop Wool Now!
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Design and analysis of a set of discrete variable protocols for secure quantum communication
Arindam Dutta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06380 https://arxiv.o…

Design and analysis of a set of discrete variable protocols for secure quantum communication
The advent of quantum key distribution (QKD) has revolutionized secure communication by providing unconditional security, unlike classical cryptographic methods. However, its effectiveness relies on robust identity authentication, as vulnerabilities in the authentication process can cause a compromise with the security of the entire communication system. Over the past three decades, numerous quantum identity authentication (QIA) protocols have been proposed. This thesis first presents a chronol…

CAN Networks Security in Smart Grids Communication Technologies
Ayman W. Baharia, Khaled T. Naga, Hesham S. Abdelfattah, Shady A. Maged, Sherif A. Hammad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12181

CAN Networks Security in Smart Grids Communication Technologies
The rapid evolution of smart grids requires effective communication protocols to transfer data reliably and securely. Controller Area Network (CAN) is one of the most recognized protocols that offer reliable data transmission in smart grids due to its robustness, real-time capabilities, and relatively low initial cost of its required hardware. However, as a smart city becomes more interconnected, it also becomes more vulnerable to cyber-attacks. As there are many mechanisms to secure the CAN no…

Secure Cooperative Gradient Coding: Optimality, Reliability, and Global Privacy
Shudi Weng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07565 https://a…

Secure Cooperative Gradient Coding: Optimality, Reliability, and Global Privacy
This paper studies privacy-sensitive federated learning (FL) with unreliable communication, focusing on secure aggregation and straggler mitigation. While secure aggregation cryptographically reconstructs the global model without exposing client updates, random link failures disrupt its key coordination, degrading model accuracy. Moreover, unreliable communication can lead to objective inconsistency, causing the global model to converge to arbitrary, sub-optimal points far from the intended opt…

Help Stop New Zealand’s Sheep Abuse! #AnimalRights #sheep

Help Stop New Zealand’s Sheep Abuse
PETA exposed New Zealand shearers beating, stomping on, and throwing sheep – urge brands like Helly Hansen and Fjällräven to drop wool now.

Secure and practical Quantum Digital Signatures
Federico Grasselli, Gaetano Russo, Massimiliano Proietti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05355 https://arxiv.org…

Secure and practical Quantum Digital Signatures
Digital signatures represent a crucial cryptographic asset that must be protected against quantum adversaries. Quantum Digital Signatures (QDS) can offer solutions that are information-theoretically (IT) secure and thus immune to quantum attacks. In this work, we analyze three existing practical QDS protocols based on preshared secure keys (e.g., established with quantum key distribution) and universal hashing families. For each protocol, we make amendments to close potential loopholes and prov…

The Guardian partners with Cambridge University to launch Secure Messaging in its app, protecting sources by making messages indistinguishable from other data (Katharine Viner/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/membership/20…

Access Control for Information-Theoretically Secure Key-Document Stores
Yin Li, Sharad Mehrota, Shantanu Sharma, Komal Kumari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10730

Access Control for Information-Theoretically Secure Key-Document Stores
This paper presents a novel key-based access control technique for secure outsourcing key-value stores where values correspond to documents that are indexed and accessed using keys. The proposed approach adopts Shamir's secret-sharing that offers unconditional or information-theoretic security. It supports keyword-based document retrieval while preventing leakage of the data, access rights of users, or the size (\textit{i}.\textit{e}., volume of the output that satisfies a query). The proposed …

Demo: Secure Edge Server for Network Slicing and Resource Allocation in Open RAN
Adhwaa Alchaab, Ayman Younis, Dario Pompili
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11499

Demo: Secure Edge Server for Network Slicing and Resource Allocation in Open RAN
Next-Generation Radio Access Networks (NGRAN) aim to support diverse vertical applications with strict security, latency, and Service-Level Agreement (SLA) requirements. These demands introduce challenges in securing the infrastructure, allocating resources dynamically, and enabling real-time reconfiguration. This demo presents SnSRIC, a secure and intelligent network slicing framework that mitigates a range of Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks in Open RAN environments. SnSRIC incorp…

Ducks Stabbed and Legs Hacked Off – Urge These Companies to Ditch Down #AnimalRights

Urge These Companies to Ditch Down
Ducks are stabbed in the neck so their feathers can be used by suppliers of Marks & Spencer, Gap Inc, Lacoste, and Guess – urge them to drop down now.

IDFace: Face Template Protection for Efficient and Secure Identification
Sunpill Kim, Seunghun Paik, Chanwoo Hwang, Dongsoo Kim, Junbum Shin, Jae Hong Seo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12050

IDFace: Face Template Protection for Efficient and Secure Identification
As face recognition systems (FRS) become more widely used, user privacy becomes more important. A key privacy issue in FRS is protecting the user's face template, as the characteristics of the user's face image can be recovered from the template. Although recent advances in cryptographic tools such as homomorphic encryption (HE) have provided opportunities for securing the FRS, HE cannot be used directly with FRS in an efficient plug-and-play manner. In particular, although HE is functionally c…

Help End Cruel Sepsis Experiments on Animals #AnimalRights

Help End Cruel Sepsis Experiments on Animals
Mice and rats are cut open, their intestines punctured so that faeces leak into their bodies in ineffective experiments – urge the government to put an end to this.

EBS-CFL: Efficient and Byzantine-robust Secure Clustered Federated Learning
Zhiqiang Li, Haiyong Bao, Menghong Guan, Hao Pan, Cheng Huang, Hong-Ning Dai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13612

EBS-CFL: Efficient and Byzantine-robust Secure Clustered Federated Learning
Despite federated learning (FL)'s potential in collaborative learning, its performance has deteriorated due to the data heterogeneity of distributed users. Recently, clustered federated learning (CFL) has emerged to address this challenge by partitioning users into clusters according to their similarity. However, CFL faces difficulties in training when users are unwilling to share their cluster identities due to privacy concerns. To address these issues, we present an innovative Efficient and R…

Secure Data Access in Cloud Environments Using Quantum Cryptography
S. Vasavi Venkata Lakshmi, Ziaul Haque Choudhury
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10028 https…

Secure Data Access in Cloud Environments Using Quantum Cryptography
Cloud computing has made storing and accessing data easier but keeping it secure is a big challenge nowadays. Traditional methods of ensuring data may not be strong enough in the future when powerful quantum computers become available. To solve this problem, this study uses quantum cryptography to protect data in the cloud environment. Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) creates secure keys by sending information using quantum particles like photons. Specifically, we use the BB84 protocol, a simple …

Cut Tracing with E-Graphs for Boolean FHE Circuit Synthesis
Julien de Castelnau, Mingfei Yu, Giovanni De Micheli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12883 https://

Cut Tracing with E-Graphs for Boolean FHE Circuit Synthesis
Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) is a promising privacy-preserving technology enabling secure computation over encrypted data. A major limitation of current FHE schemes is their high runtime overhead. As a result, automatic optimization of circuits describing FHE computation has garnered significant attention in the logic synthesis community. Existing works primarily target the multiplicative depth (MD) and multiplicative complexity (MC) of FHE circuits, corresponding to the total number of m…

Bidirectional Biometric Authentication Using Transciphering and (T)FHE
Joon Soo Yoo, Tae Min Ahn, Ji Won Yoon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12802 https://

Bidirectional Biometric Authentication Using Transciphering and (T)FHE
Biometric authentication systems pose privacy risks, as leaked templates such as iris or fingerprints can lead to security breaches. Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) enables secure encrypted evaluation, but its deployment is hindered by large ciphertexts, high key overhead, and limited trust models. We propose the Bidirectional Transciphering Framework (BTF), combining FHE, transciphering, and a non-colluding trusted party to enable efficient and privacy-preserving biometric authentication. T…

Succinct Oblivious Tensor Evaluation and Applications: Adaptively-Secure Laconic Function Evaluation and Trapdoor Hashing for All Circuits
Damiano Abram, Giulio Malavolta, Lawrence Roy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09673

Succinct Oblivious Tensor Evaluation and Applications: Adaptively-Secure Laconic Function Evaluation and Trapdoor Hashing for All Circuits
We propose the notion of succinct oblivious tensor evaluation (OTE), where two parties compute an additive secret sharing of a tensor product of two vectors $\mathbf{x} \otimes \mathbf{y}$, exchanging two simultaneous messages. Crucially, the size of both messages and of the CRS is independent of the dimension of $\mathbf{x}$. We present a construction of OTE with optimal complexity from the standard learning with errors (LWE) problem. Then we show how this new technical tool enables a host o…