Crypto-Gram Newsletter

Crypto-Gram is a free monthly e-mail digest of posts from Bruce Schneier’s Schneier on Security blog.

Recent Issues

August 15, 2023

In this issue:

  1. Tracking Down a Suspect through Cell Phone Records
  2. Disabling Self-Driving Cars with a Traffic Cone
  3. Practice Your Security Prompting Skills
  4. Commentary on the Implementation Plan for the 2023 US National Cybersecurity Strategy
  5. Kevin Mitnick Died
  6. AI and Microdirectives
  7. Google Reportedly Disconnecting Employees from the Internet
  8. New York Using AI to Detect Subway Fare Evasion
  9. Backdoor in TETRA Police Radios
  10. Fooling an AI Article Writer
  11. Indirect Instruction Injection in Multi-Modal LLMs
  12. Automatically Finding Prompt Injection Attacks
  13. Hacking AI Resume Screening with Text in a White Font
  14. New SEC Rules around Cybersecurity Incident Disclosures
  15. The Need for Trustworthy AI
  16. Political Milestones for AI
  17. Microsoft Signing Key Stolen by Chinese
  18. You Can’t Rush Post-Quantum-Computing Cryptography Standards
  19. Using Machine Learning to Detect Keystrokes
  20. Cryptographic Flaw in Libbitcoin Explorer Cryptocurrency Wallet
  21. The Inability to Simultaneously Verify Sentience, Location, and Identity
  22. China Hacked Japan’s Military Networks

Read This Issue →

July 15, 2023

In this issue:

  1. Security and Human Behavior (SHB) 2023
  2. Power LED Side-Channel Attack
  3. Ethical Problems in Computer Security
  4. AI as Sensemaking for Public Comments
  5. UPS Data Harvested for SMS Phishing Attacks
  6. Excel Data Forensics
  7. Typing Incriminating Evidence in the Memo Field
  8. Stalkerware Vendor Hacked
  9. Redacting Documents with a Black Sharpie Doesn’t Work
  10. The US Is Spying on the UN Secretary General
  11. Self-Driving Cars Are Surveillance Cameras on Wheels
  12. The Password Game
  13. Class-Action Lawsuit for Scraping Data without Permission
  14. Belgian Tax Hack
  15. The AI Dividend
  16. Wisconsin Governor Hacks the Veto Process
  17. Privacy of Printing Services
  18. Google Is Using Its Vast Data Stores to Train AI
  19. French Police Will Be Able to Spy on People through Their Cell Phones
  20. Buying Campaign Contributions as a Hack

Read This Issue →

June 15, 2023

In this issue:

  1. Micro-Star International Signing Key Stolen
  2. Microsoft Secure Boot Bug
  3. Security Risks of New .zip and .mov Domains
  4. Google Is Not Deleting Old YouTube Videos
  5. Credible Handwriting Machine
  6. Indiana, Iowa, and Tennessee Pass Comprehensive Privacy Laws
  7. On the Poisoning of LLMs
  8. Expeditionary Cyberspace Operations
  9. Brute-Forcing a Fingerprint Reader
  10. Chinese Hacking of US Critical Infrastructure
  11. On the Catastrophic Risk of AI
  12. Open-Source LLMs
  13. The Software-Defined Car
  14. Snowden Ten Years Later
  15. How Attorneys Are Harming Cybersecurity Incident Response
  16. Paragon Solutions Spyware: Graphite
  17. Operation Triangulation: Zero-Click iPhone Malware
  18. AI-Generated Steganography
  19. Identifying the Idaho Killer
  20. On the Need for an AI Public Option

Read This Issue →

More Issues →

Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.