Crypto-Gram Newsletter
Crypto-Gram is a free monthly e-mail digest of posts from Bruce Schneier’s Schneier on Security blog.
Recent Issues
September 15, 2026
In this issue:
- Hacking Public Wi-Fi DNS to Steal Credentials
- LLMs and Contextual Integrity
- ICE Collecting DNA Samples
- Police Are Hiding Their Use of Flock Surveillance Cameras
- Detailed Timeline of OpenAI’s Cyberattack on Hugging Face
- More Incidents of AIs Going Rogue in Cybersecurity Challenges
- AI Is Learning to Write Genetic Code
- Criminal Deception in Silicon Valley
- Black Hat State of Security Vendors
- Spyware for Babies
- LLM-Based Social Engineering Scams
- AI Doesn’t Mean the End of Mathematics—at Least Not Yet
- Hiding Prompt Injection in Legal Filing
- Is Someone Hacking DoD Refrigerators?
- Rewiring Democracy Series on The Renovator
- Leaked Russian Cyber-Operations Training Materials
- What’s the Scam?
- Wireless Routers as Motion Detectors
- AI Agents Are Now Emailing Me with Their Security Concerns
- Researching Employment Scams
- AI Coding Agents Are Installing Unknown/Untrusted Code on Corporate Networks
- Security Vulnerability in a Voting System
- Using a VM to Contain an AI Agent
- Automobile Camouflage to Hide from Flock Cameras
- Stealing AI Reasoning Traces
- AIs as Modern Genies
- Claude Fable Solves a Historical Cipher
- Driver’s License Data for Sale
- AIs Compress Exploit Timeline
- Cliff Stoll’s DEF CON Talk
- My Talk at DEF CON
- Microsoft’s Patching
- Using AI for Weapons Development
- Upcoming Speaking Engagements
- 25 Years of Mass Surveillance Is Enough
August 15, 2026
In this issue:
- A Video Screen That Is Also a Camera
- Protecting Privacy in an AI Era
- Details of Alan Turing’s Voice Encryption System
- On Flock License Plate Tracking Cameras
- MIT to Become Hotbed of AI Video Surveillance
- First-Person Identity Theft Story
- End-to-End Encryption and "Going Dark"
- Why AI Needs a “Genie Coefficient”
- Cognyte Sells a Mobile Cell Surveillance Van
- Axon Is Another License Plate Surveillance Company
- Measuring LLMs' Ability to Perform Cryptanalysis
- Long-Lived Vulnerability in Microsoft Secure Boot
- Measuring the Tendency of AI Agents to Go Rogue
- Should You Use AI for a Task? Here’s a Simple Way to Decide
- American Being Prosecuted for Wiping His Phone Before Handing It Over to Border Officials
- Facial Recognition at Madison Square Garden
- Anthropic’s Opus 5 Is Better at Resisting Prompt Injection
- The OpenAI Hack Shows the Genie Is Out of the Bottle
- More on the OpenAI Agent’s Attack on Hugging Face
- Some Claude Chats Are Searchable on Google
- Iran Cyberattacks Against Minnesota Water Systems
- Vulnerabilities in Car Anti-Theft Device
- Adversarial Clothing Designed to Fool Facial Recognition Systems
- ICE Is Buying Access to Credit Card Records
- Python Now Has a Post-Quantum Encryption Library
- AI for Military Support
- AI Genie in the Wild
- Prompt Injections for Defense
- Separating AI’s Technological Problems from Its Capitalism Problems
- If the Markets Reject OpenAI and Anthropic, the US Should Nationalize Them
- Upcoming Speaking Engagements
July 15, 2026
In this issue:
- The FCC Wants to Eliminate Burner Phones
- Flock Cameras Are Being Used for Stalking
- AI Use by the US Government
- Embedding Forbidden Text in Spyware to Discourage AI Analysis
- Anthropic’s Fable and the State of AI
- Professional Athletes and Wearables
- Anthropic’s Fable 5 Model Jailbroken Within Days
- Interesting Paper Exploring Prompt Injection
- AI and Liability
- One Million Passports Leaked Online
- Meta Is Testing Facial Recognition for Police and Military
- Robot Police Officers
- Factoring RSA Keys with Many Zeros
- The Realities of AI Video Surveillance
- Papa Johns Surveillance-Based Advertising
- Cybersecurity Mission Creep in the US
- Flock Cameras Can Surveil Cars Without License Plates
- France to Stop Certifying Non-Quantum-Safe Encryption
- Google Is Suing Chinese Scammers Who Are Using Gemini
- Cybersecurity and the Gap Between Skill and Ability
- The Language of AI Could Change How Humans Speak
- AI Surveillance and Social Progress
- AI Data Centers and the Concentration of Wealth
- Vulnerability in FIFA’s Network
- Upcoming Speaking Engagements
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