Crypto-Gram Newsletter
Crypto-Gram is a free monthly e-mail digest of posts from Bruce Schneier’s Schneier on Security blog.
Recent Issues
February 15, 2021
In this issue:
- Cell Phone Location Privacy
- Injecting a Backdoor into SolarWinds Orion
- Sophisticated Watering Hole Attack
- SVR Attacks on Microsoft 365
- Insider Attack on Home Surveillance Systems
- Massive Brazilian Data Breach
- Dutch Insider Attack on COVID-19 Data
- Police Have Disrupted the Emotet Botnet
- New iMessage Security Features
- Including Hackers in NATO Wargames
- Georgia's Ballot-Marking Devices
- More SolarWinds News
- Another SolarWinds Orion Hack
- Presidential Cybersecurity and Pelotons
- NoxPlayer Android Emulator Supply-Chain Attack
- SonicWall Zero-Day
- Web Credit Card Skimmer Steals Data from Another Credit Card Skimmer
- Ransomware Profitability
- Attack against Florida Water Treatment Facility
- Medieval Security Techniques
- Chinese Supply-Chain Attack on Computer Systems
January 15, 2021
In this issue:
- Another Massive Russian Hack of US Government Networks
- How the SolarWinds Hackers Bypassed Duo's Multi-Factor Authentication
- Zodiac Killer Cipher Solved
- Mexican Drug Cartels with High-Tech Spyware
- More on the SolarWinds Breach
- US Schools Are Buying Cell Phone Unlocking Systems
- NSA on Authentication Hacks (Related to SolarWinds Breach)
- Eavesdropping on Phone Taps from Voice Assistants
- Investigating the Navalny Poisoning
- How China Uses Stolen US Personnel Data
- Russia's SolarWinds Attack
- On the Evolution of Ransomware
- Brexit Deal Mandates Old Insecure Crypto Algorithms
- Amazon Has Trucks Filled with Hard Drives and an Armed Guard
- Military Cryptanalytics, Part III
- Latest on the SVR's SolarWinds Hack
- Backdoor in Zyxel Firewalls and Gateways
- Extracting Personal Information from Large Language Models Like GPT-2
- Russia's SolarWinds Attack and Software Security
- APT Horoscope
- Changes in WhatsApp's Privacy Policy
- Cloning Google Titan 2FA keys
- On US Capitol Security -- By Someone Who Manages Arena-Rock-Concert Security
- Finding the Location of Telegram Users
- Upcoming Speaking Engagements
- Click Here to Kill Everybody Sale
December 15, 2020
In this issue:
- On Blockchain Voting
- Michael Ellis as NSA General Counsel
- The US Military Buys Commercial Location Data
- Symantec Reports on Cicada APT Attacks against Japan
- Indistinguishability Obfuscation
- More on the Security of the 2020 US Election
- On That Dusseldorf Hospital Ransomware Attack and the Resultant Death
- Cyber Public Health
- Undermining Democracy
- Check Washing
- Manipulating Systems Using Remote Lasers
- Impressive iPhone Exploit
- Open Source Does Not Equal Secure
- Enigma Machine Recovered from the Baltic Sea
- The 2020 Workshop on Economics and Information Security (WEIS)
- Hiding Malware in Social Media Buttons
- Oblivious DNS-over-HTTPS
- FireEye Hacked
- Finnish Data Theft and Extortion
- A Cybersecurity Policy Agenda
- Authentication Failure
- Upcoming Speaking Engagements
- Should There Be Limits on Persuasive Technologies?
Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.