Crypto-Gram Newsletter
Crypto-Gram is a free monthly e-mail digest of posts from Bruce Schneier’s Schneier on Security blog.
Recent Issues
September 15, 2022
In this issue:
- $23 Million YouTube Royalties Scam
- Remotely Controlling Touchscreens
- Zoom Exploit on MacOS
- USB "Rubber Ducky" Attack Tool
- Hyundai Uses Example Keys for Encryption System
- Signal Phone Numbers Exposed in Twilio Hack
- Mudge Files Whistleblower Complaint against Twitter
- Man-in-the-Middle Phishing Attack
- Security and Cheap Complexity
- Levels of Assurance for DoD Microelectronics
- FTC Sues Data Broker
- High-School Graduation Prank Hack
- Clever Phishing Scam Uses Legitimate PayPal Messages
- Montenegro Is the Victim of a Cyberattack
- The LockBit Ransomware Gang Is Surprisingly Professional
- Facebook Has No Idea What Data It Has
- Responsible Disclosure for Cryptocurrency Security
- New Linux Cryptomining Malware
- FBI Seizes Stolen Cryptocurrencies
- Weird Fallout from Peiter Zatko’s Twitter Whistleblowing
- Upcoming Speaking Engagements
August 15, 2022
In this issue:
- San Francisco Police Want Real-Time Access to Private Surveillance Cameras
- Facebook Is Now Encrypting Links to Prevent URL Stripping
- NSO Group’s Pegasus Spyware Used against Thailand Pro-Democracy Activists and Leaders
- Russia Creates Malware False-Flag App
- Critical Vulnerabilities in GPS Trackers
- Apple’s Lockdown Mode
- Securing Open-Source Software
- New UEFI Rootkit
- Microsoft Zero-Days Sold and Then Used
- Ring Gives Videos to Police without a Warrant or User Consent
- Surveillance of Your Car
- Drone Deliveries into Prisons
- SIKE Broken
- NIST’s Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards
- Hacking Starlink
- A Taxonomy of Access Control
- Twitter Exposes Personal Information for 5.4 Million Accounts
- Upcoming Speaking Engagements
July 15, 2022
In this issue:
- M1 Chip Vulnerability
- Attacking the Performance of Machine Learning Systems
- Tracking People via Bluetooth on Their Phones
- Hertzbleed: A New Side-Channel Attack
- Hidden Anti-Cryptography Provisions in Internet Anti-Trust Bills
- Symbiote Backdoor in Linux
- On the Subversion of NIST by the NSA
- On the Dangers of Cryptocurrencies and the Uselessness of Blockchain
- 2022 Workshop on Economics and Information Security (WEIS)
- When Security Locks You Out of Everything
- Ecuador’s Attempt to Resettle Edward Snowden
- ZuoRAT Malware Is Targeting Routers
- Analyzing the Swiss E-Voting System
- NIST Announces First Four Quantum-Resistant Cryptographic Algorithms
- Ubiquitous Surveillance by ICE
- Apple’s Lockdown Mode
- Nigerian Prison Break
- Security Vulnerabilities in Honda’s Keyless Entry System
- Post-Roe Privacy
- New Browser De-anonymization Technique
- Upcoming Speaking Engagements
Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.