Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Fishing in Peru

2026-03-04T21:38:41Z2a5a89fee17528c60dc727426b1b62632c7049bc203a6f94c62fde1a773fb8d0
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What happened

The document is a collection of Bruce Schneier blog posts (Feb 2026) covering multiple security topics: Iran’s January 2026 nationwide, unusually severe internet blackout and the risks of a two‑tiered (domestic intranet vs global Internet) architecture; a novel phishing campaign where North Korean actors pose as recruiters and embed malware in developer coding challenges; research showing that some password managers (e.g., Bitwarden, Dashlane, LastPass) can be abused via account‑recovery/group‑sharing/server‑side control to access or weaken vault encryption; weaknesses in LLMs for password‑gen

Why it matters

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2026-03-04T21:38:41Z
AI-assisted enrichment
Yes

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