Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Fishing in Peru

2026-03-04T21:40:31Zbb5d9a6fd0885cfb230c46b43a88e243bec54346239657e6684a4a1b20f77b4e
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What happened

This collection of Schneier blog posts (Feb 2026) highlights several interrelated cyber and AI risks: Iran’s recent total communications blackout and the dangerous two-tiered internet (National Information Network) that enables selective connectivity and harms civilians and businesses; targeted phishing by North Korean actors posing as recruiters to deliver malware via coding-challenges; weaknesses in LLM-generated passwords (predictable patterns) and research showing password managers (Bitwarden, Dashlane, LastPass) can be abused via account-recovery or server-side compromise to exfiltrate or

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