Crypto-Gram Newsletter

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

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August 15, 2020

In this issue:

  1. NSA on Securing VPNs
  2. Twitter Hackers May Have Bribed an Insider
  3. On the Twitter Hack
  4. Hacking a Power Supply
  5. Fawkes: Digital Image Cloaking
  6. Adversarial Machine Learning and the CFAA
  7. Update on NIST's Post-Quantum Cryptography Program
  8. Images in Eye Reflections
  9. Survey of Supply Chain Attacks
  10. Fake Stories in Real News Sites
  11. Data and Goliath Book Placement
  12. Twitter Hacker Arrested
  13. BlackBerry Phone Cracked
  14. Cybercrime in the Age of COVID-19
  15. The NSA on the Risks of Exposing Location Data
  16. Smart Lock Vulnerability
  17. Collecting and Selling Mobile Phone Location Data
  18. Cryptanalysis of an Old Zip Encryption Algorithm
  19. UAE Hack and Leak Operations
  20. Drovorub Malware
  21. Upcoming Speaking Engagements

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July 15, 2020

In this issue:

  1. Examining the US Cyber Budget
  2. Eavesdropping on Sound Using Variations in Light Bulbs
  3. Bank Card "Master Key" Stolen
  4. Zoom Will Be End-to-End Encrypted for All Users
  5. Theft of CIA's "Vault Seven" Hacking Tools Due to Its Own Lousy Security
  6. New Hacking-for-Hire Company in India
  7. Security and Human Behavior (SHB) 2020
  8. Identifying a Person Based on a Photo, LinkedIn and Etsy Profiles, and Other Internet Bread Crumbs
  9. Nation-State Espionage Campaigns against Middle East Defense Contractors
  10. Cryptocurrency Pump and Dump Scams
  11. COVID-19 Risks of Flying
  12. Analyzing IoT Security Best Practices
  13. The Unintended Harms of Cybersecurity
  14. iPhone Apps Stealing Clipboard Data
  15. Android Apps Stealing Facebook Credentials
  16. Securing the International IoT Supply Chain
  17. The Security Value of Inefficiency
  18. EncroChat Hacked by Police
  19. ThiefQuest Ransomware for the Mac
  20. IoT Security Principles
  21. Traffic Analysis of Home Security Cameras
  22. Business Email Compromise (BEC) Criminal Ring
  23. EFF's 30th Anniversary Livestream
  24. A Peek into the Fake Review Marketplace
  25. Enigma Machine for Sale

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June 15, 2020

In this issue:

  1. On Marcus Hutchins
  2. Ramsay Malware
  3. AI and Cybersecurity
  4. Criminals and the Normalization of Masks
  5. Bart Gellman on Snowden
  6. Ann Mitchell, Bletchley Park Cryptanalyst, Dies
  7. Bluetooth Vulnerability: BIAS
  8. Websites Conducting Port Scans
  9. Thermal Imaging as Security Theater
  10. Facebook Announces Messenger Security Features that Don't Compromise Privacy
  11. Bogus Security Technology: An Anti-5G USB Stick
  12. Password Changing After a Breach
  13. "Sign in with Apple" Vulnerability
  14. Wallpaper that Crashes Android Phones
  15. Zoom's Commitment to User Security Depends on Whether you Pay It or Not
  16. New Research: "Privacy Threats in Intimate Relationships"
  17. Phishing Attacks against Trump and Biden Campaigns
  18. Gene Spafford on Internet Voting
  19. Security Analysis of the Democracy Live Online Voting System
  20. Availability Attacks against Neural Networks
  21. Another Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability
  22. Facebook Helped Develop a Tails Exploit

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