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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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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February 15, 2020

In this issue:

  1. Critical Windows Vulnerability Discovered by NSA
  2. Securing Tiffany's Move
  3. Clearview AI and Facial Recognition
  4. SIM Hijacking
  5. Brazil Charges Glenn Greenwald with Cybercrimes
  6. Half a Million IoT Device Passwords Published
  7. Apple Abandoned Plans for Encrypted iCloud Backup after FBI Complained
  8. Technical Report of the Bezos Phone Hack
  9. Smartphone Election in Washington State
  10. Modern Mass Surveillance: Identify, Correlate, Discriminate
  11. Google Receives Geofence Warrants
  12. Customer Tracking at Ralphs Grocery Store
  13. Collating Hacked Data Sets
  14. US Department of Interior Grounding All Drones
  15. NSA Security Awareness Posters
  16. Attacking Driverless Cars with Projected Images
  17. New Research on the Adtech Industry
  18. Tree Code
  19. A New Clue for the Kryptos Sculpture
  20. New Ransomware Targets Industrial Control Systems
  21. Security in 2020: Revisited
  22. Apple's Tracking-Prevention Feature in Safari has a Privacy Bug
  23. Crypto AG Was Owned by the CIA
  24. Companies that Scrape Your Email
  25. A US Data Protection Agency
  26. DNSSEC Keysigning Ceremony Postponed Because of Locked Safe
  27. Upcoming Speaking Engagements

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January 15, 2020

In this issue:

  1. Security Vulnerabilities in the RCS Texting Protocol
  2. Iranian Attacks on Industrial Control Systems
  3. Attacker Causes Epileptic Seizure over the Internet
  4. Lousy IoT Security
  5. ToTok Is an Emirati Spying Tool
  6. Chinese Hackers Bypassing Two-Factor Authentication
  7. Hacking School Surveillance Systems
  8. Mysterious Drones Are Flying over Colorado
  9. Chrome Extension Stealing Cryptocurrency Keys and Passwords
  10. Mailbox Master Keys
  11. USB Cable Kill Switch for Laptops
  12. New SHA-1 Attack
  13. Police Surveillance Tools from Special Services Group
  14. Artificial Personas and Public Discourse
  15. 5G Security
  16. Upcoming Speaking Engagements

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