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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August 15, 2019

In this issue:

  1. Palantir's Surveillance Service for Law Enforcement
  2. Zoom Vulnerability
  3. Identity Theft on the Job Market
  4. John Paul Stevens Was a Cryptographer
  5. A Harlequin Romance Novel about Hackers
  6. Hackers Expose Russian FSB Cyberattack Projects
  7. Science Fiction Writers Helping Imagine Future Threats
  8. Attorney General William Barr on Encryption Policy
  9. Software Developers and Security
  10. Insider Logic Bombs
  11. Wanted: Cybersecurity Imagery
  12. ACLU on the GCHQ Backdoor Proposal
  13. Another Attack Against Driverless Cars
  14. Facebook Plans on Backdooring WhatsApp
  15. How Privacy Laws Hurt Defendants
  16. Disabling Security Cameras with Lasers
  17. More on Backdooring (or Not) WhatsApp
  18. Regulating International Trade in Commercial Spyware
  19. Phone Pharming for Ad Fraud
  20. Brazilian Cell Phone Hack
  21. AT&T Employees Took Bribes to Unlock Smartphones
  22. Supply-Chain Attack against the Electron Development Platform
  23. Evaluating the NSA's Telephony Metadata Program
  24. Exploiting GDPR to Get Private Information
  25. Side-Channel Attack against Electronic Locks

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July 15, 2019

In this issue:

  1. Data, Surveillance, and the AI Arms Race
  2. Maciej Cegłowski on Privacy in the Information Age
  3. Risks of Password Managers
  4. Hacking Hardware Security Modules
  5. How Apple's "Find My" Feature Works
  6. Fake News and Pandemics
  7. Backdoor Built into Android Firmware
  8. Election Security
  9. iPhone Apps Surreptitiously Communicated with Unknown Servers
  10. Florida City Pays Ransomware
  11. Person in Latex Mask Impersonated French Minister
  12. MongoDB Offers Field Level Encryption
  13. Spanish Soccer League App Spies on Fans
  14. Cellebrite Claims It Can Unlock Any iPhone
  15. I'm Leaving IBM
  16. Yubico Security Keys with a Crypto Flaw
  17. Google Releases Basic Homomorphic Encryption Tool
  18. Digital License Plates
  19. US Journalist Detained When Returning to US
  20. Research on Human Honesty
  21. Applied Cryptography is Banned in Oregon Prisons
  22. Ransomware Recovery Firms Who Secretly Pay Hackers
  23. Cardiac Biometric
  24. Cell Networks Hacked by (Probable) Nation-State Attackers
  25. Details of the Cloud Hopper Attacks
  26. Resetting Your GE Smart Light Bulb
  27. Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang Has Quantum Encryption Policy
  28. Clickable Endnotes to Click Here to Kill Everybody
  29. Upcoming Speaking Engagements

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June 15, 2019

In this issue:

  1. International Spy Museum Reopens
  2. WhatsApp Vulnerability Fixed
  3. Another Intel Chip Flaw
  4. More Attacks against Computer Automatic Update Systems
  5. Why Are Cryptographers Being Denied Entry into the US?
  6. The Concept of "Return on Data"
  7. How Technology and Politics Are Changing Spycraft
  8. Fingerprinting iPhones
  9. Visiting the NSA
  10. Thangrycat: A Serious Cisco Vulnerability
  11. German SG-41 Encryption Machine Up for Auction
  12. Germany Talking about Banning End-to-End Encryption
  13. NSA Hawaii
  14. First American Financial Corp. Data Records Leak
  15. Alex Stamos on Content Moderation and Security
  16. Fraudulent Academic Papers
  17. The Human Cost of Cyberattacks
  18. The Importance of Protecting Cybersecurity Whistleblowers
  19. The Cost of Cybercrime
  20. Lessons Learned Trying to Secure Congressional Campaigns
  21. Chinese Military Wants to Develop Custom OS
  22. Security and Human Behavior (SHB) 2019
  23. iOS Shortcut for Recording the Police
  24. Employment Scam
  25. Workshop on the Economics of Information Security
  26. Rock-Paper-Scissors Robot
  27. Report on the Stalkerware Industry
  28. Video Surveillance by Computer
  29. Computers and Video Surveillance
  30. Upcoming Speaking Engagements

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