Crypto-Gram Newsletter
Crypto-Gram is a free monthly e-mail digest of posts from Bruce Schneier’s Schneier on Security blog.
Recent Issues
November 15, 2021
In this issue:
- Book Sale: Click Here to Kill Everybody and Data and Goliath
- Security Risks of Client-Side Scanning
- Missouri Governor Doesn't Understand Responsible Disclosure
- Ransomware Attacks against Water Treatment Plants
- Using Machine Learning to Guess PINs from Video
- Textbook Rental Scam
- Problems with Multifactor Authentication
- Nation-State Attacker of Telecommunications Networks
- New York Times Journalist Hacked with NSO Spyware
- How the FBI Gets Location Information
- More Russian SVR Supply-Chain Attacks
- Squid Game Has a Cryptocurrency
- Hiding Vulnerabilities in Source Code
- On Cell Phone Metadata
- Using Fake Student Accounts to Shill Brands
- US Blacklists NSO Group
- Squid Game Cryptocurrency Was a Scam
- Drones Carrying Explosives
- Hacking the Sony Playstation 5
- Advice for Personal Digital Security
- MacOS Zero-Day Used against Hong Kong Activists
- Upcoming Speaking Engagements
October 15, 2021
In this issue:
- Identifying Computer-Generated Faces
- Zero-Click iMessage Exploit
- Alaska's Department of Health and Social Services Hack
- FBI Had the REvil Decryption Key
- ROT8000
- The Proliferation of Zero-days
- I Am Not Satoshi Nakamoto
- Tracking Stolen Cryptocurrencies
- Check What Information Your Browser Leaks
- Hardening Your VPN
- A Death Due to Ransomware
- Cheating on Tests
- Facebook Is Down
- Syniverse Hack
- The European Parliament Voted to Ban Remote Biometric Surveillance
- Airline Passenger Mistakes Vintage Camera for a Bomb
- Suing Infrastructure Companies for Copyright Violations
- Recovering Real Faces from Face-Generation ML System
- Upcoming Speaking Engagements
September 15, 2021
In this issue:
- Tetris: Chinese Espionage Tool
- Apple's NeuralHash Algorithm Has Been Reverse-Engineered
- T-Mobile Data Breach
- More on Apple's iPhone Backdoor
- Surveillance of the Internet Backbone
- Interesting Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
- Details of the Recent T-Mobile Breach
- Excellent Write-up of the SolarWinds Security Breach
- More Military Cryptanalytics, Part III
- Zero-Click iPhone Exploits
- History of the HX-63 Rotor Machine
- Hacker-Themed Board Game
- Tracking People by their MAC Addresses
- Lightning Cable with Embedded Eavesdropping
- Security Risks of Relying on a Single Smartphone
- More Detail on the Juniper Hack and the NSA PRNG Backdoor
- ProtonMail Now Keeps IP Logs
- Designing Contact-Tracing Apps
- Upcoming Speaking Engagements
Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.