Crypto-Gram Newsletter
Crypto-Gram is a free monthly e-mail digest of posts from Bruce Schneier’s Schneier on Security blog.
Recent Issues
January 15, 2023
In this issue:
- A Security Vulnerability in the KmsdBot Botnet
- Apple Patches iPhone Zero-Day
- As Long as We’re on the Subject of CAPTCHAs
- How to Surrender to a Drone
- Trojaned Windows Installer Targets Ukraine
- Ukraine Intercepting Russian Soldiers' Cell Phone Calls
- Critical Microsoft Code-Execution Vulnerability
- Hacking the JFK Airport Taxi Dispatch System
- LastPass Breach
- Arresting IT Administrators
- QR Code Scam
- Recovering Smartphone Voice from the Accelerometer
- Breaking RSA with a Quantum Computer
- Decarbonizing Cryptocurrencies through Taxation
- Remote Vulnerabilities in Automobiles
- Schneier on Security Audiobook Sale
- Identifying People Using Cell Phone Location Data
- ChatGPT-Written Malware
- Experian Privacy Vulnerability
- Threats of Machine-Generated Text
- Booklist Review of A Hacker’s Mind
- Upcoming Speaking Engagements
December 15, 2022
In this issue:
- Another Event-Related Spyware App
- Russian Software Company Pretending to Be American
- Failures in Twitter’s Two-Factor Authentication System
- Successful Hack of Time-Triggered Ethernet
- First Review of A Hacker’s Mind
- Breaking the Zeppelin Ransomware Encryption Scheme
- Apple’s Device Analytics Can Identify iCloud Users
- The US Has a Shortage of Bomb-Sniffing Dogs
- Computer Repair Technicians Are Stealing Your Data
- Charles V of Spain Secret Code Cracked
- Facebook Fined $276M under GDPR
- Sirius XM Software Vulnerability
- LastPass Security Breach
- Existential Risk and the Fermi Paradox
- CAPTCHA
- CryWiper Data Wiper Targeting Russian Sites
- The Decoupling Principle
- Leaked Signing Keys Are Being Used to Sign Malware
- Security Vulnerabilities in Eufy Cameras
- Hacking Trespass Law
- Apple Is Finally Encrypting iCloud Backups
- Obligatory ChatGPT Post
- Hacking Boston’s CharlieCard
- Reimagining Democracy
November 15, 2022
In this issue:
- New Book: A Hacker’s Mind
- Hacking Automobile Keyless Entry Systems
- Qatar Spyware
- Museum Security
- Interview with Signal’s New President
- Adversarial ML Attack that Secretly Gives a Language Model a Point of View
- On the Randomness of Automatic Card Shufflers
- Australia Increases Fines for Massive Data Breaches
- Critical Vulnerability in Open SSL
- Apple Only Commits to Patching Latest OS Version
- Iran’s Digital Surveillance Tools Leaked
- NSA on Supply Chain Security
- The Conviction of Uber’s Chief Security Officer
- Using Wi-FI to See through Walls
- Defeating Phishing-Resistant Multifactor Authentication
- An Untrustworthy TLS Certificate in Browsers
- NSA Over-surveillance
- A Digital Red Cross
- Upcoming Speaking Engagements
Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.