Crypto-Gram Newsletter
Crypto-Gram is a free monthly e-mail digest of posts from Bruce Schneier’s Schneier on Security blog.
Recent Issues
January 15, 2022
In this issue:
- More Log4j News
- More on NSO Group and Cytrox: Two Cyberweapons Arms Manufacturers
- Stolen Bitcoins Returned
- Apple AirTags Are Being Used to Track People and Cars
- More Russian Cyber Operations against Ukraine
- People Are Increasingly Choosing Private Web Search
- Norton’s Antivirus Product Now Includes an Ethereum Miner
- Fake QR Codes on Parking Meters
- Apple’s Private Relay Is Being Blocked
- Faking an iPhone Reboot
- Using Foreign Nationals to Bypass US Surveillance Restrictions
- Using EM Waves to Detect Malware
- Upcoming Speaking Engagements
December 15, 2021
In this issue:
- Securing Your Smartphone
- Why I Hate Password Rules
- Wire Fraud Scam Upgraded with Bitcoin
- Is Microsoft Stealing People’s Bookmarks?
- New Rowhammer Technique
- “Crypto” Means “Cryptography,” Not “Cryptocurrency”
- Apple Sues NSO Group
- Proposed UK Law Bans Default Passwords
- Intel Is Maintaining Legacy Technology for Security Research
- Smart Contract Bug Results in $31 Million Loss
- Testing Faraday Cages
- Thieves Using AirTags to “Follow” Cars
- Someone Is Running Lots of Tor Relays
- New German Government is Pro-Encryption and Anti-Backdoors
- Google Shuts Down Glupteba Botnet, Sues Operators
- Law Enforcement Access to Chat Data and Metadata
- NSO Group’s Pegasus Spyware Used Against US State Department Officials
- On the Log4j Vulnerability
- Upcoming Speaking Engagements
November 15, 2021
In this issue:
- Book Sale: Click Here to Kill Everybody and Data and Goliath
- Security Risks of Client-Side Scanning
- Missouri Governor Doesn't Understand Responsible Disclosure
- Ransomware Attacks against Water Treatment Plants
- Using Machine Learning to Guess PINs from Video
- Textbook Rental Scam
- Problems with Multifactor Authentication
- Nation-State Attacker of Telecommunications Networks
- New York Times Journalist Hacked with NSO Spyware
- How the FBI Gets Location Information
- More Russian SVR Supply-Chain Attacks
- Squid Game Has a Cryptocurrency
- Hiding Vulnerabilities in Source Code
- On Cell Phone Metadata
- Using Fake Student Accounts to Shill Brands
- US Blacklists NSO Group
- Squid Game Cryptocurrency Was a Scam
- Drones Carrying Explosives
- Hacking the Sony Playstation 5
- Advice for Personal Digital Security
- MacOS Zero-Day Used against Hong Kong Activists
- Upcoming Speaking Engagements
Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.