Crypto-Gram Newsletter

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

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July 15, 2020

In this issue:

  1. Examining the US Cyber Budget
  2. Eavesdropping on Sound Using Variations in Light Bulbs
  3. Bank Card "Master Key" Stolen
  4. Zoom Will Be End-to-End Encrypted for All Users
  5. Theft of CIA's "Vault Seven" Hacking Tools Due to Its Own Lousy Security
  6. New Hacking-for-Hire Company in India
  7. Security and Human Behavior (SHB) 2020
  8. Identifying a Person Based on a Photo, LinkedIn and Etsy Profiles, and Other Internet Bread Crumbs
  9. Nation-State Espionage Campaigns against Middle East Defense Contractors
  10. Cryptocurrency Pump and Dump Scams
  11. COVID-19 Risks of Flying
  12. Analyzing IoT Security Best Practices
  13. The Unintended Harms of Cybersecurity
  14. iPhone Apps Stealing Clipboard Data
  15. Android Apps Stealing Facebook Credentials
  16. Securing the International IoT Supply Chain
  17. The Security Value of Inefficiency
  18. EncroChat Hacked by Police
  19. ThiefQuest Ransomware for the Mac
  20. IoT Security Principles
  21. Traffic Analysis of Home Security Cameras
  22. Business Email Compromise (BEC) Criminal Ring
  23. EFF's 30th Anniversary Livestream
  24. A Peek into the Fake Review Marketplace
  25. Enigma Machine for Sale

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June 15, 2020

In this issue:

  1. On Marcus Hutchins
  2. Ramsay Malware
  3. AI and Cybersecurity
  4. Criminals and the Normalization of Masks
  5. Bart Gellman on Snowden
  6. Ann Mitchell, Bletchley Park Cryptanalyst, Dies
  7. Bluetooth Vulnerability: BIAS
  8. Websites Conducting Port Scans
  9. Thermal Imaging as Security Theater
  10. Facebook Announces Messenger Security Features that Don't Compromise Privacy
  11. Bogus Security Technology: An Anti-5G USB Stick
  12. Password Changing After a Breach
  13. "Sign in with Apple" Vulnerability
  14. Wallpaper that Crashes Android Phones
  15. Zoom's Commitment to User Security Depends on Whether you Pay It or Not
  16. New Research: "Privacy Threats in Intimate Relationships"
  17. Phishing Attacks against Trump and Biden Campaigns
  18. Gene Spafford on Internet Voting
  19. Security Analysis of the Democracy Live Online Voting System
  20. Availability Attacks against Neural Networks
  21. Another Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability
  22. Facebook Helped Develop a Tails Exploit

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May 15, 2020

In this issue:

  1. California Needlessly Reduces Privacy During COVID-19 Pandemic
  2. The DoD Isn't Fixing Its Security Problems
  3. Vulnerability Finding Using Machine Learning
  4. Another Story of Bad 1970s Encryption
  5. New iPhone Zero-Day Discovered
  6. Chinese COVID-19 Disinformation Campaign
  7. Global Surveillance in the Wake of COVID-19
  8. Automatic Instacart Bots
  9. Fooling NLP Systems Through Word Swapping
  10. How Did Facebook Beat a Federal Wiretap Demand?
  11. Securing Internet Videoconferencing Apps: Zoom and Others
  12. Me on COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps
  13. Denmark, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands and France SIGINT Alliance
  14. Malware in Google Apps
  15. ILOVEYOU Virus
  16. iOS XML Bug
  17. Used Tesla Components Contain Personal Information
  18. Another California Data Privacy Law
  19. Attack Against PC Thunderbolt Port
  20. New US Electronic Warfare Platform
  21. US Government Exposes North Korean Malware

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