Crypto-Gram Newsletter

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

Recent Issues

January 15, 2026

In this issue:

  1. Against the Federal Moratorium on State-Level Regulation of AI
  2. Chinese Surveillance and AI
  3. Deliberate Internet Shutdowns
  4. Someone Boarded a Plane at Heathrow Without a Ticket or Passport
  5. AI Advertising Company Hacked
  6. Microsoft Is Finally Killing RC4
  7. Denmark Accuses Russia of Conducting Two Cyberattacks
  8. Urban VPN Proxy Surreptitiously Intercepts AI Chats
  9. IoT Hack
  10. Are We Ready to Be Governed by Artificial Intelligence?
  11. Using AI-Generated Images to Get Refunds
  12. LinkedIn Job Scams
  13. Flock Exposes Its AI-Enabled Surveillance Cameras
  14. Telegram Hosting World’s Largest Darknet Market
  15. A Cyberattack Was Part of the US Assault on Venezuela
  16. The Wegman’s Supermarket Chain Is Probably Using Facial Recognition
  17. AI & Humans: Making the Relationship Work
  18. Palo Alto Crosswalk Signals Had Default Passwords
  19. Corrupting LLMs Through Weird Generalizations
  20. 1980s Hacker Manifesto
  21. Upcoming Speaking Engagements
  22. Hacking Wheelchairs over Bluetooth

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December 15, 2025

In this issue:

  1. More Prompt||GTFO
  2. AI and Voter Engagement
  3. Legal Restrictions on Vulnerability Disclosure
  4. Scam USPS and E-Z Pass Texts and Websites
  5. AI as Cyberattacker
  6. More on Rewiring Democracy
  7. IACR Nullifies Election Because of Lost Decryption Key
  8. Four Ways AI Is Being Used to Strengthen Democracies Worldwide
  9. Huawei and Chinese Surveillance
  10. Prompt Injection Through Poetry
  11. Banning VPNs
  12. Like Social Media, AI Requires Difficult Choices
  13. New Anonymous Phone Service
  14. Substitution Cipher Based on The Voynich Manuscript
  15. AI vs. Human Drivers
  16. FBI Warns of Fake Video Scams
  17. AIs Exploiting Smart Contracts
  18. Building Trustworthy AI Agents
  19. Upcoming Speaking Engagements

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November 15, 2025

In this issue:

  1. Apple’s Bug Bounty Program
  2. Cryptocurrency ATMs
  3. A Surprising Amount of Satellite Traffic Is Unencrypted
  4. Agentic AI’s OODA Loop Problem
  5. A Cybersecurity Merit Badge
  6. Failures in Face Recognition
  7. Serious F5 Breach
  8. Part Four of The Kryptos Sculpture
  9. First Wap: A Surveillance Computer You’ve Never Heard Of
  10. Louvre Jewel Heist
  11. Social Engineering People’s Credit Card Details
  12. Signal’s Post-Quantum Cryptographic Implementation
  13. The AI-Designed Bioweapon Arms Race
  14. Will AI Strengthen or Undermine Democracy?
  15. AI Summarization Optimization
  16. Cybercriminals Targeting Payroll Sites
  17. Scientists Need a Positive Vision for AI
  18. Rigged Poker Games
  19. Faking Receipts with AI
  20. New Attacks Against Secure Enclaves
  21. Prompt Injection in AI Browsers
  22. On Hacking Back
  23. Book Review: The Business of Secrets
  24. The Role of Humans in an AI-Powered World
  25. Upcoming Speaking Engagements

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