Friday Squid Blogging: “Squidbleed” Vulnerability

Collection of Schneier blog posts highlighting multiple security and privacy issues: a newly public “Squidbleed” bug in the Squid proxy that can leak HTTP requests (information disclosure of proxied traffic); expanding AI risks including AI-enabled surveillance (video analytics with natural-language queries), AI-assisted autonomous hacking warnings from Five Eyes, and LLMs being used to automate large-scale scams (Google suing groups using Gemini for phishing templates); commercial surveillance advances such as Flock’s vehicle-fingerprinting (tracking without plates) and adtech/retail tracking