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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May 15, 2020

In this issue:

  1. California Needlessly Reduces Privacy During COVID-19 Pandemic
  2. The DoD Isn't Fixing Its Security Problems
  3. Vulnerability Finding Using Machine Learning
  4. Another Story of Bad 1970s Encryption
  5. New iPhone Zero-Day Discovered
  6. Chinese COVID-19 Disinformation Campaign
  7. Global Surveillance in the Wake of COVID-19
  8. Automatic Instacart Bots
  9. Fooling NLP Systems Through Word Swapping
  10. How Did Facebook Beat a Federal Wiretap Demand?
  11. Securing Internet Videoconferencing Apps: Zoom and Others
  12. Me on COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps
  13. Denmark, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands and France SIGINT Alliance
  14. Malware in Google Apps
  15. ILOVEYOU Virus
  16. iOS XML Bug
  17. Used Tesla Components Contain Personal Information
  18. Another California Data Privacy Law
  19. Attack Against PC Thunderbolt Port
  20. New US Electronic Warfare Platform
  21. US Government Exposes North Korean Malware

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April 15, 2020

In this issue:

  1. TSA Admits Liquid Ban Is Security Theater
  2. The Insecurity of WordPress and Apache Struts
  3. Work-from-Home Security Advice
  4. Emergency Surveillance During COVID-19 Crisis
  5. Hacking Voice Assistants with Ultrasonic Waves
  6. Internet Voting in Puerto Rico
  7. Facial Recognition for People Wearing Masks
  8. On Cyber Warranties
  9. Story of Gus Weiss
  10. Privacy vs. Surveillance in the Age of COVID-19
  11. Clarifying the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
  12. Dark Web Hosting Provider Hacked
  13. Marriott Was Hacked -- Again
  14. Bug Bounty Programs Are Being Used to Buy Silence
  15. Security and Privacy Implications of Zoom
  16. Emotet Malware Causes Physical Damage
  17. Cybersecurity During COVID-19
  18. RSA-250 Factored
  19. Microsoft Buys Corp.com
  20. Kubernetes Security
  21. Contact Tracing COVID-19 Infections via Smartphone Apps
  22. Ransomware Now Leaking Stolen Documents
  23. Upcoming Speaking Engagements

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March 15, 2020

In this issue:

  1. Voatz Internet Voting App Is Insecure
  2. Hacking McDonald's for Free Food
  3. Internet of Things Candle
  4. Policy vs. Technology
  5. Inrupt, Tim Berners-Lee's Solid, and Me
  6. Russia Is Trying to Tap Transatlantic Cables
  7. Firefox Enables DNS over HTTPS
  8. Newly Declassified Study Demonstrates Uselessness of NSA's Phone Metadata Program
  9. Securing the Internet of Things through Class-Action Lawsuits
  10. Deep Learning to Find Malicious Email Attachments
  11. Facebook's Download-Your-Data Tool Is Incomplete
  12. Wi-Fi Chip Vulnerability
  13. Let's Encrypt Vulnerability
  14. Security of Health Information
  15. More on Crypto AG
  16. Cybersecurity Law Casebook
  17. CIA Dirty Laundry Aired
  18. LA Covers Up Bad Cybersecurity
  19. The Whisper Secret-Sharing App Exposed Locations
  20. The EARN-IT Act

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