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, 2023

In this issue:

  1. Swatting as a Service
  2. Using LLMs to Create Bioweapons
  3. EFF on the UN Cybercrime Treaty
  4. New Zero-Click Exploits against iOS
  5. Using the iPhone Recovery Key to Lock Owners Out of Their iPhones
  6. Hacking Pickleball
  7. UK Threatens End-to-End Encryption
  8. Cyberweapons Manufacturer QuaDream Shuts Down
  9. AI to Aid Democracy
  10. Security Risks of AI
  11. Hacking the Layoff Process
  12. NIST Draft Document on Post-Quantum Cryptography Guidance
  13. SolarWinds Detected Six Months Earlier
  14. Large Language Models and Elections
  15. AI Hacking Village at DEF CON This Year
  16. PIPEDREAM Malware against Industrial Control Systems
  17. FBI Disables Russian Malware
  18. Building Trustworthy AI
  19. Ted Chiang on the Risks of AI
  20. Upcoming Speaking Engagements

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April 15, 2023

In this issue:

  1. NetWire Remote Access Trojan Maker Arrested
  2. How AI Could Write Our Laws
  3. Upcoming Speaking Engagements
  4. US Citizen Hacked by Spyware
  5. ChatGPT Privacy Flaw
  6. Mass Ransomware Attack
  7. Exploding USB Sticks
  8. A Hacker’s Mind News
  9. Hacks at Pwn2Own Vancouver 2023
  10. Security Vulnerabilities in Snipping Tools
  11. The Security Vulnerabilities of Message Interoperability
  12. Russian Cyberwarfare Documents Leaked
  13. UK Runs Fake DDoS-for-Hire Sites
  14. North Korea Hacking Cryptocurrency Sites with 3CX Exploit
  15. FBI (and Others) Shut Down Genesis Market
  16. Research on AI in Adversarial Settings
  17. LLMs and Phishing
  18. Car Thieves Hacking the CAN Bus
  19. FBI Advising People to Avoid Public Charging Stations
  20. Bypassing a Theft Threat Model
  21. Gaining an Advantage in Roulette
  22. Hacking Suicide
  23. Upcoming Speaking Engagements

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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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