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, 2024

In this issue:

  1. NIST Releases First Post-Quantum Encryption Algorithms
  2. New Windows IPv6 Zero-Click Vulnerability
  3. The State of Ransomware
  4. Hacking Wireless Bicycle Shifters
  5. Story of an Undercover CIA Officer who Penetrated Al Qaeda
  6. Surveillance Watch
  7. Take a Selfie Using a NY Surveillance Camera
  8. US Federal Court Rules Against Geofence Warrants
  9. The Present and Future of TV Surveillance
  10. Matthew Green on Telegram’s Encryption
  11. Adm. Grace Hopper’s 1982 NSA Lecture Has Been Published
  12. SQL Injection Attack on Airport Security
  13. List of Old NSA Training Videos
  14. Security Researcher Sued for Disproving Government Statements
  15. Long Analysis of the M-209
  16. YubiKey Side-Channel Attack
  17. Australia Threatens to Force Companies to Break Encryption
  18. New Chrome Zero-Day
  19. Evaluating the Effectiveness of Reward Modeling of Generative AI Systems
  20. Microsoft Is Adding New Cryptography Algorithms
  21. My TedXBillings Talk
  22. Upcoming Speaking Engagements

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August 15, 2024

In this issue:

  1. Hacking Scientific Citations
  2. Cloudflare Reports that Almost 7% of All Internet Traffic Is Malicious
  3. Criminal Gang Physically Assaulting People for Their Cryptocurrency
  4. Brett Solomon on Digital Rights
  5. Snake Mimics a Spider
  6. 2017 ODNI Memo on Kaspersky Labs
  7. Robot Dog Internet Jammer
  8. Data Wallets Using the Solid Protocol
  9. The CrowdStrike Outage and Market-Driven Brittleness
  10. Compromising the Secure Boot Process
  11. New Research in Detecting AI-Generated Videos
  12. Providing Security Updates to Automobile Software
  13. Education in Secure Software Development
  14. Leaked GitHub Python Token
  15. New Patent Application for Car-to-Car Surveillance
  16. On the Cyber Safety Review Board
  17. Problems with Georgia’s Voter Registration Portal
  18. People-Search Site Removal Services Largely Ineffective
  19. Taxonomy of Generative AI Misuse
  20. On the Voynich Manuscript
  21. Texas Sues GM for Collecting Driving Data without Consent
  22. Upcoming Speaking Engagements

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July 15, 2024

In this issue:

  1. Using LLMs to Exploit Vulnerabilities
  2. Rethinking Democracy for the Age of AI
  3. The Hacking of Culture and the Creation of Socio-Technical Debt
  4. New Blog Moderation Policy
  5. Recovering Public Keys from Signatures
  6. Ross Anderson’s Memorial Service
  7. Paul Nakasone Joins OpenAI’s Board of Directors
  8. Breaking the M-209
  9. The US Is Banning Kaspersky
  10. Security Analysis of the EU’s Digital Wallet
  11. James Bamford on Section 702 Extension
  12. Model Extraction from Neural Networks
  13. Public Surveillance of Bars
  14. Upcoming Book on AI and Democracy
  15. New Open SSH Vulnerability
  16. On the CSRB’s Non-Investigation of the SolarWinds Attack
  17. Reverse-Engineering Ticketmaster’s Barcode System
  18. RADIUS Vulnerability
  19. Apple Is Alerting iPhone Users of Spyware Attacks
  20. The NSA Has a Long-Lost Lecture by Adm. Grace Hopper
  21. Upcoming Speaking Engagements

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