Crypto-Gram Newsletter
Crypto-Gram is a free monthly e-mail digest of posts from Bruce Schneier’s Schneier on Security blog.
Recent Issues
May 15, 2022
In this issue:
- Undetectable Backdoors in Machine-Learning Models
- Clever Cryptocurrency Theft
- Long Article on NSO Group
- Java Cryptography Implementation Mistake Allows Digital-Signature Forgeries
- SMS Phishing Attacks are on the Rise
- Zero-Day Vulnerabilities Are on the Rise
- Microsoft Issues Report of Russian Cyberattacks against Ukraine
- Video Conferencing Apps Sometimes Ignore the Mute Button
- Using Pupil Reflection in Smartphone Camera Selfies
- New Sophisticated Malware
- 15.3 Million Request-Per-Second DDoS Attack
- Corporate Involvement in International Cybersecurity Treaties
- Apple Mail Now Blocks Email Trackers
- ICE Is a Domestic Surveillance Agency
- Surveillance by Driverless Car
- Upcoming Speaking Engagements
April 15, 2022
In this issue:
- US Critical Infrastructure Companies Will Have to Report When They Are Hacked
- Breaking RSA through Insufficiently Random Primes
- "Change Password"
- Why Vaccine Cards Are So Easily Forged
- Developer Sabotages Open-Source Software Package
- White House Warns of Possible Russian Cyberattacks
- NASA’s Insider Threat Program
- Linux Improves Its Random Number Generator
- Gus Simmons’s Memoir
- A Detailed Look at the Conti Ransomware Gang
- Stalking with an Apple Watch
- Chrome Zero-Day from North Korea
- Bypassing Two-Factor Authentication
- Wyze Camera Vulnerability
- Hackers Using Fake Police Data Requests against Tech Companies
- Cyberweapons Arms Manufacturer FinFisher Shuts Down
- US Disrupts Russian Botnet
- AirTags Are Used for Stalking Far More than Previously Reported
- De-anonymizing Bitcoin
- John Oliver on Data Brokers
- Russian Cyberattack against Ukrainian Power Grid Prevented
- Industrial Control System Malware Discovered
- Upcoming Speaking Engagements
March 15, 2022
In this issue:
- Secret CIA Data Collection Program
- Vendors are Fixing Security Flaws Faster
- Possible Government Surveillance of the Otter.ai Transcription App
- Stealing Bicycles by Swapping QR Codes
- A New Cybersecurity "Social Contract"
- Bypassing Apple’s AirTag Security
- An Elaborate Employment Con in the Internet Age
- Privacy Violating COVID Tests
- Insurance Coverage for NotPetya Losses
- Decrypting Hive Ransomware Data
- Vulnerability in Stalkerware Apps
- Details of an NSA Hacking Operation
- Samsung Encryption Flaw
- Hacking Alexa through Alexa’s Speech
- Using Radar to Read Body Language
- Fraud on Zelle
- Where’s the Russia-Ukraine Cyberwar?
- Leak of Russian Censorship Data
- Upcoming Speaking Events
Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.