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, 2021
In this issue:
- Another Massive Russian Hack of US Government Networks
- How the SolarWinds Hackers Bypassed Duo's Multi-Factor Authentication
- Zodiac Killer Cipher Solved
- Mexican Drug Cartels with High-Tech Spyware
- More on the SolarWinds Breach
- US Schools Are Buying Cell Phone Unlocking Systems
- NSA on Authentication Hacks (Related to SolarWinds Breach)
- Eavesdropping on Phone Taps from Voice Assistants
- Investigating the Navalny Poisoning
- How China Uses Stolen US Personnel Data
- Russia's SolarWinds Attack
- On the Evolution of Ransomware
- Brexit Deal Mandates Old Insecure Crypto Algorithms
- Amazon Has Trucks Filled with Hard Drives and an Armed Guard
- Military Cryptanalytics, Part III
- Latest on the SVR's SolarWinds Hack
- Backdoor in Zyxel Firewalls and Gateways
- Extracting Personal Information from Large Language Models Like GPT-2
- Russia's SolarWinds Attack and Software Security
- APT Horoscope
- Changes in WhatsApp's Privacy Policy
- Cloning Google Titan 2FA keys
- On US Capitol Security -- By Someone Who Manages Arena-Rock-Concert Security
- Finding the Location of Telegram Users
- Upcoming Speaking Engagements
- Click Here to Kill Everybody Sale
December 15, 2020
In this issue:
- On Blockchain Voting
- Michael Ellis as NSA General Counsel
- The US Military Buys Commercial Location Data
- Symantec Reports on Cicada APT Attacks against Japan
- Indistinguishability Obfuscation
- More on the Security of the 2020 US Election
- On That Dusseldorf Hospital Ransomware Attack and the Resultant Death
- Cyber Public Health
- Undermining Democracy
- Check Washing
- Manipulating Systems Using Remote Lasers
- Impressive iPhone Exploit
- Open Source Does Not Equal Secure
- Enigma Machine Recovered from the Baltic Sea
- The 2020 Workshop on Economics and Information Security (WEIS)
- Hiding Malware in Social Media Buttons
- Oblivious DNS-over-HTTPS
- FireEye Hacked
- Finnish Data Theft and Extortion
- A Cybersecurity Policy Agenda
- Authentication Failure
- Upcoming Speaking Engagements
- Should There Be Limits on Persuasive Technologies?
November 15, 2020
In this issue:
- 2020 Workshop on Economics of Information Security
- US Cyber Command and Microsoft Are Both Disrupting TrickBot
- Split-Second Phantom Images Fool Autopilots
- Cybersecurity Visuals
- NSA Advisory on Chinese Government Hacking
- New Report on Police Decryption Capabilities
- IMSI-Catchers from Canada
- Reverse-Engineering the Redactions in the Ghislaine Maxwell Deposition
- The NSA is Refusing to Disclose its Policy on Backdooring Commercial Products
- Tracking Users on Waze
- The Legal Risks of Security Research
- New Windows Zero-Day
- Determining What Video Conference Participants Are Typing from Watching Shoulder Movements
- California Proposition 24 Passes
- Detecting Phishing Emails
- 2020 Was a Secure Election
- The Security Failures of Online Exam Proctoring
- "Privacy Nutrition Labels" in Apple's App Store
- New Zealand Election Fraud
- Inrupt's Solid Announcement
- Upcoming Speaking Engagements
Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.