Crypto-Gram Newsletter

Crypto-Gram is a free monthly e-mail digest of posts from Bruce Schneier’s Schneier on Security blog.

Recent Issues

July 15, 2026

In this issue:

  1. The FCC Wants to Eliminate Burner Phones
  2. Flock Cameras Are Being Used for Stalking
  3. AI Use by the US Government
  4. Embedding Forbidden Text in Spyware to Discourage AI Analysis
  5. Anthropic’s Fable and the State of AI
  6. Professional Athletes and Wearables
  7. Anthropic’s Fable 5 Model Jailbroken Within Days
  8. Interesting Paper Exploring Prompt Injection
  9. AI and Liability
  10. One Million Passports Leaked Online
  11. Meta Is Testing Facial Recognition for Police and Military
  12. Robot Police Officers
  13. Factoring RSA Keys with Many Zeros
  14. The Realities of AI Video Surveillance
  15. Papa Johns Surveillance-Based Advertising
  16. Cybersecurity Mission Creep in the US
  17. Flock Cameras Can Surveil Cars Without License Plates
  18. France to Stop Certifying Non-Quantum-Safe Encryption
  19. Google Is Suing Chinese Scammers Who Are Using Gemini
  20. Cybersecurity and the Gap Between Skill and Ability
  21. The Language of AI Could Change How Humans Speak
  22. AI Surveillance and Social Progress
  23. AI Data Centers and the Concentration of Wealth
  24. Vulnerability in FIFA’s Network
  25. Upcoming Speaking Engagements

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June 15, 2026

In this issue:

  1. Bypassing On-Camera Age-Verification Checks
  2. Zero-Day Exploit Against Windows BitLocker
  3. Laurie Anderson Is Quoting Me
  4. On AI Security
  5. macOS Kernel Memory Corruption Exploit
  6. CISA Security Leak
  7. Identifying People Using Wi-Fi Routers
  8. FBI’s 2025 Internet Crime Report
  9. Chilling Effects
  10. Vulnerability Disclosure in the Age of AI
  11. Microsoft Threatening Security Researcher
  12. The Intersection of Encryption and AI
  13. AI Used to Decrypt Medieval Ciphers
  14. Hacking Meta’s AI Chatbot
  15. AI Worm
  16. Anthropic’s Project Glasswing Update
  17. Critical Zcash Vulnerability Found and Fixed
  18. GPS As a Key Distribution Platform
  19. NSO Group Hacking WhatsApp Despite Court Order
  20. Enhanced License Plate Tracking
  21. Bernie Sanders’ AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Plan
  22. Upcoming Speaking Engagements

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May 15, 2026

In this issue:

  1. Defense in Depth, Medieval Style
  2. Human Trust of AI Agents
  3. Mythos and Cybersecurity
  4. Is "Satoshi Nakamoto" Really Adam Back?
  5. Mexican Surveillance Company
  6. ICE Uses Graphite Spyware
  7. FBI Extracts Deleted Signal Messages from iPhone Notification Database
  8. Hiding Bluetooth Trackers in Mail
  9. Medieval Encrypted Letter Decoded
  10. What Anthropic’s Mythos Means for the Future of Cybersecurity
  11. Claude Mythos Has Found 271 Zero-Days in Firefox
  12. Fast16 Malware
  13. A Ransomware Negotiator Was Working for a Ransomware Gang
  14. Hacking Polymarket
  15. DarkSword Malware
  16. Rowhammer Attack Against NVIDIA Chips
  17. Smart Glasses for the Authorities
  18. Insider Betting on Polymarket
  19. LLMs and Text-in-Text Steganography
  20. Copy.Fail Linux Vulnerability
  21. OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 is as Good as Mythos at Finding Security Vulnerabilities
  22. How Dangerous Is Anthropic’s Mythos AI?
  23. Upcoming Speaking Engagements

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