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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November 15, 2019

In this issue:

  1. Cracking the Passwords of Early Internet Pioneers
  2. Using Machine Learning to Detect IP Hijacking
  3. Adding a Hardware Backdoor to a Networked Computer
  4. Why Technologists Need to Get Involved in Public Policy
  5. Details of the Olympic Destroyer APT
  6. Calculating the Benefits of the Advanced Encryption Standard
  7. Public Voice Launches Petition for an International Moratorium on Using Facial Recognition for Mass Surveillance
  8. NordVPN Breached
  9. Mapping Security and Privacy Research across the Decades
  10. Dark Web Site Taken Down without Breaking Encryption
  11. Former FBI General Counsel Jim Baker Chooses Encryption Over Backdoors
  12. ICT Supply-Chain Security
  13. WhatsApp Sues NSO Group
  14. A Broken Random Number Generator in AMD Microcode
  15. Resources for Measuring Cybersecurity
  16. Homemade TEMPEST Receiver
  17. Obfuscation as a Privacy Tool
  18. Details of an Airbnb Fraud
  19. Eavesdropping on SMS Messages inside Telco Networks
  20. xHelper Malware for Android
  21. Fooling Voice Assistants with Lasers
  22. Identifying and Arresting Ransomware Criminals
  23. NTSB Investigation of Fatal Driverless Car Accident
  24. Technology and Policymakers
  25. Upcoming Speaking Engagements

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October 15, 2019

In this issue:

  1. Another Side Channel in Intel Chips
  2. Cracking Forgotten Passwords
  3. I'm Looking to Hire a Strategist to Help Figure Out Public-Interest Tech
  4. Revisiting Software Vulnerabilities in the Boeing 787
  5. New Biometrics
  6. A Feminist Take on Information Privacy
  7. Crown Sterling Claims to Factor RSA Keylengths First Factored Twenty Years Ago
  8. France Outlines Its Approach to Cyberwar
  9. Russians Hack FBI Comms System
  10. Ineffective Package Tracking Facilitates Fraud
  11. On Chinese "Spy Trains"
  12. Superhero Movies and Security Lessons
  13. Supply-Chain Security and Trust
  14. NSA on the Future of National Cybersecurity
  15. New Research into Russian Malware
  16. Measuring the Security of IoT Devices
  17. Tracking by Smart TVs
  18. More Cryptanalysis of Solitaire
  19. Edward Snowden's Memoirs
  20. New Unpatchable iPhone Exploit Allows Jailbreaking
  21. Speakers Censored at AISA Conference in Melbourne
  22. Illegal Data Center Hidden in Former NATO Bunker
  23. Cheating at Professional Poker
  24. Wi-Fi Hotspot Tracking
  25. New Reductor Nation-State Malware Compromises TLS
  26. Details on Uzbekistan Government Malware: SandCat
  27. I Have a New Book: We Have Root
  28. Factoring 2048-bit Numbers Using 20 Million Qubits

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September 15, 2019

In this issue:

  1. Bypassing Apple FaceID's Liveness Detection Feature
  2. Software Vulnerabilities in the Boeing 787
  3. Influence Operations Kill Chain
  4. Surveillance as a Condition for Humanitarian Aid
  5. Google Finds 20-Year-Old Microsoft Windows Vulnerability
  6. Modifying a Tesla to Become a Surveillance Platform
  7. License Plate "NULL"
  8. Detecting Credit Card Skimmers
  9. The Threat of Fake Academic Research
  10. The Myth of Consumer-Grade Security
  11. AI Emotion-Detection Arms Race
  12. Attacking the Intel Secure Enclave
  13. Massive iPhone Hack Targets Uyghurs
  14. Credit Card Privacy
  15. The Doghouse: Crown Sterling
  16. Default Password for GPS Trackers
  17. NotPetya
  18. On Cybersecurity Insurance
  19. More on Law Enforcement Backdoor Demands
  20. Fabricated Voice Used in Financial Fraud
  21. Smart Watches and Cheating on Tests
  22. When Biology Becomes Software
  23. Upcoming Speaking Engagements

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