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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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May 15, 2019

In this issue:

  1. China Spying on Undersea Internet Cables
  2. Vulnerabilities in the WPA3 Wi-Fi Security Protocol
  3. More on the Triton Malware
  4. A "Department of Cybersecurity"
  5. New DNS Hijacking Attacks
  6. Iranian Cyberespionage Tools Leaked Online
  7. Excellent Analysis of the Boeing 737 Max Software Problems
  8. G7 Comes Out in Favor of Encryption Backdoors
  9. Vulnerability in French Government Tchap Chat App
  10. Fooling Automated Surveillance Cameras with Patchwork Color Printout
  11. Towards an Information Operations Kill Chain
  12. Interview of Me in Taiwan
  13. Stealing Ethereum by Guessing Weak Private Keys
  14. Defending Democracies Against Information Attacks
  15. On Security Tokens
  16. Why Isn't GDPR Being Enforced?
  17. Cybersecurity for the Public Interest
  18. Protecting Yourself from Identity Theft
  19. First Physical Retaliation for a Cyberattack
  20. Locked Computers
  21. Malicious MS Office Macro Creator
  22. Leaked NSA Hacking Tools
  23. Amazon Is Losing the War on Fraudulent Sellers
  24. Another NSA Leaker Identified and Charged
  25. Cryptanalyzing a Pair of Russian Encryption Algorithms
  26. Reverse Engineering a Chinese Surveillance App
  27. Cryptanalysis of SIMON-32/64
  28. Upcoming Speaking Engagements

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April 15, 2019

In this issue:

  1. Critical Flaw in Swiss Internet Voting System
  2. Upcoming Speaking Engagements
  3. I Was Cited in a Court Decision
  4. CAs Reissue Over One Million Weak Certificates
  5. Triton
  6. An Argument that Cybersecurity Is Basically Okay
  7. Zipcar Disruption
  8. First Look Media Shutting Down Access to Snowden NSA Archives
  9. Enigma, Typex, and Bombe Simulators
  10. Mail Fishing
  11. Personal Data Left on Used Laptops
  12. Programmers Who Don't Understand Security Are Poor at Security
  13. Malware Installed in Asus Computers through Hacked Update Process
  14. NSA-Inspired Vulnerability Found in Huawei Laptops
  15. Recovering Smartphone Typing from Microphone Sounds
  16. Hacking Instagram to Get Free Meals in Exchange for Positive Reviews
  17. How Political Campaigns Use Personal Data
  18. Adversarial Machine Learning against Tesla's Autopilot
  19. Former Mozilla CTO Harassed at the US Border
  20. Unhackable Cryptography?
  21. Ghidra: NSA's Reverse-Engineering Tool
  22. Hey Secret Service: Don't Plug Suspect USB Sticks into Random Computers
  23. How the Anonymous Artist Banksy Authenticates His or Her Work
  24. TajMahal Spyware
  25. New Version of Flame Malware Discovered
  26. Maliciously Tampering with Medical Imagery

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