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Crypto-Gram is a free monthly e-mail digest of posts from Bruce Schneier’s Schneier on Security blog.

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March 15, 2023

In this issue:

  1. Camera the Size of a Grain of Salt
  2. ChatGPT Is Ingesting Corporate Secrets
  3. Defending against AI Lobbyists
  4. Fines as a Security System
  5. The Insecurity of Photo Cropping
  6. A Device to Turn Traffic Lights Green
  7. Cyberwar Lessons from the War in Ukraine
  8. Putting Undetectable Backdoors in Machine Learning Models
  9. Banning TikTok
  10. Side-Channel Attack against CRYSTALS-Kyber
  11. Fooling a Voice Authentication System with an AI-Generated Voice
  12. Dumb Password Rules
  13. Nick Weaver on Regulating Cryptocurrency
  14. New National Cybersecurity Strategy
  15. Prompt Injection Attacks on Large Language Models
  16. BlackLotus Malware Hijacks Windows Secure Boot Process
  17. Another Malware with Persistence
  18. Elephant Hackers
  19. NetWire Remote Access Trojan Maker Arrested
  20. How AI Could Write Our Laws
  21. Upcoming Speaking Engagements

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February 15, 2023

In this issue:

  1. Hacked Cellebrite and MSAB Software Released
  2. The FBI Identified a Tor User
  3. AI and Political Lobbying
  4. Security Analysis of Threema
  5. Real-World Steganography
  6. Publisher’s Weekly Review of A Hacker’s Mind
  7. No-Fly List Exposed
  8. Bulk Surveillance of Money Transfers
  9. US Cyber Command Operations During the 2022 Midterm Elections
  10. On Alec Baldwin’s Shooting
  11. A Guide to Phishing Attacks
  12. Kevin Mitnick Hacked California Law in 1983
  13. NIST Is Updating Its Cybersecurity Framework
  14. Ransomware Payments Are Down
  15. Passwords Are Terrible (Surprising No One)
  16. AIs as Computer Hackers
  17. Manipulating Weights in Face-Recognition AI Systems
  18. A Hacker’s Mind News
  19. Attacking Machine Learning Systems
  20. Malware Delivered through Google Search
  21. SolarWinds and Market Incentives
  22. Mary Queen of Scots Letters Decrypted
  23. Hacking the Tax Code
  24. A Hacker’s Mind Is Now Published
  25. On Pig Butchering Scams
  26. What Will It Take?
  27. Upcoming Speaking Engagements

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January 15, 2023

In this issue:

  1. A Security Vulnerability in the KmsdBot Botnet
  2. Apple Patches iPhone Zero-Day
  3. As Long as We’re on the Subject of CAPTCHAs
  4. How to Surrender to a Drone
  5. Trojaned Windows Installer Targets Ukraine
  6. Ukraine Intercepting Russian Soldiers' Cell Phone Calls
  7. Critical Microsoft Code-Execution Vulnerability
  8. Hacking the JFK Airport Taxi Dispatch System
  9. LastPass Breach
  10. Arresting IT Administrators
  11. QR Code Scam
  12. Recovering Smartphone Voice from the Accelerometer
  13. Breaking RSA with a Quantum Computer
  14. Decarbonizing Cryptocurrencies through Taxation
  15. Remote Vulnerabilities in Automobiles
  16. Schneier on Security Audiobook Sale
  17. Identifying People Using Cell Phone Location Data
  18. ChatGPT-Written Malware
  19. Experian Privacy Vulnerability
  20. Threats of Machine-Generated Text
  21. Booklist Review of A Hacker’s Mind
  22. Upcoming Speaking Engagements

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