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, 2023
In this issue:
- Zoom Can Spy on Your Calls and Use the Conversation to Train AI, But Says That It Won’t
- UK Electoral Commission Hacked
- Detecting "Violations of Social Norms" in Text with AI
- Bots Are Better than Humans at Solving CAPTCHAs
- White House Announces AI Cybersecurity Challenge
- Applying AI to License Plate Surveillance
- December’s Reimagining Democracy Workshop
- Parmesan Anti-Forgery Protection
- Hacking Food Labeling Laws
- Remotely Stopping Polish Trains
- Identity Theft from 1965 Uncovered through Face Recognition
- When Apps Go Rogue
- Own Your Own Government Surveillance Van
- Spyware Vendor Hacked
- Inconsistencies in the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS)
- Cryptocurrency Startup Loses Encryption Key for Electronic Wallet
- The Hacker Tool to Get Personal Data from Credit Bureaus
- LLMs and Tool Use
- On Robots Killing People
- Cars Have Terrible Data Privacy
- Zero-Click Exploit in iPhones
- Fake Signal and Telegram Apps in the Google Play Store
- Upcoming Speaking Engagements
August 15, 2023
In this issue:
- Tracking Down a Suspect through Cell Phone Records
- Disabling Self-Driving Cars with a Traffic Cone
- Practice Your Security Prompting Skills
- Commentary on the Implementation Plan for the 2023 US National Cybersecurity Strategy
- Kevin Mitnick Died
- AI and Microdirectives
- Google Reportedly Disconnecting Employees from the Internet
- New York Using AI to Detect Subway Fare Evasion
- Backdoor in TETRA Police Radios
- Fooling an AI Article Writer
- Indirect Instruction Injection in Multi-Modal LLMs
- Automatically Finding Prompt Injection Attacks
- Hacking AI Resume Screening with Text in a White Font
- New SEC Rules around Cybersecurity Incident Disclosures
- The Need for Trustworthy AI
- Political Milestones for AI
- Microsoft Signing Key Stolen by Chinese
- You Can’t Rush Post-Quantum-Computing Cryptography Standards
- Using Machine Learning to Detect Keystrokes
- Cryptographic Flaw in Libbitcoin Explorer Cryptocurrency Wallet
- The Inability to Simultaneously Verify Sentience, Location, and Identity
- China Hacked Japan’s Military Networks
July 15, 2023
In this issue:
- Security and Human Behavior (SHB) 2023
- Power LED Side-Channel Attack
- Ethical Problems in Computer Security
- AI as Sensemaking for Public Comments
- UPS Data Harvested for SMS Phishing Attacks
- Excel Data Forensics
- Typing Incriminating Evidence in the Memo Field
- Stalkerware Vendor Hacked
- Redacting Documents with a Black Sharpie Doesn’t Work
- The US Is Spying on the UN Secretary General
- Self-Driving Cars Are Surveillance Cameras on Wheels
- The Password Game
- Class-Action Lawsuit for Scraping Data without Permission
- Belgian Tax Hack
- The AI Dividend
- Wisconsin Governor Hacks the Veto Process
- Privacy of Printing Services
- Google Is Using Its Vast Data Stores to Train AI
- French Police Will Be Able to Spy on People through Their Cell Phones
- Buying Campaign Contributions as a Hack
Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.