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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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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August 15, 2019

In this issue:

  1. Palantir's Surveillance Service for Law Enforcement
  2. Zoom Vulnerability
  3. Identity Theft on the Job Market
  4. John Paul Stevens Was a Cryptographer
  5. A Harlequin Romance Novel about Hackers
  6. Hackers Expose Russian FSB Cyberattack Projects
  7. Science Fiction Writers Helping Imagine Future Threats
  8. Attorney General William Barr on Encryption Policy
  9. Software Developers and Security
  10. Insider Logic Bombs
  11. Wanted: Cybersecurity Imagery
  12. ACLU on the GCHQ Backdoor Proposal
  13. Another Attack Against Driverless Cars
  14. Facebook Plans on Backdooring WhatsApp
  15. How Privacy Laws Hurt Defendants
  16. Disabling Security Cameras with Lasers
  17. More on Backdooring (or Not) WhatsApp
  18. Regulating International Trade in Commercial Spyware
  19. Phone Pharming for Ad Fraud
  20. Brazilian Cell Phone Hack
  21. AT&T Employees Took Bribes to Unlock Smartphones
  22. Supply-Chain Attack against the Electron Development Platform
  23. Evaluating the NSA's Telephony Metadata Program
  24. Exploiting GDPR to Get Private Information
  25. Side-Channel Attack against Electronic Locks

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July 15, 2019

In this issue:

  1. Data, Surveillance, and the AI Arms Race
  2. Maciej Cegłowski on Privacy in the Information Age
  3. Risks of Password Managers
  4. Hacking Hardware Security Modules
  5. How Apple's "Find My" Feature Works
  6. Fake News and Pandemics
  7. Backdoor Built into Android Firmware
  8. Election Security
  9. iPhone Apps Surreptitiously Communicated with Unknown Servers
  10. Florida City Pays Ransomware
  11. Person in Latex Mask Impersonated French Minister
  12. MongoDB Offers Field Level Encryption
  13. Spanish Soccer League App Spies on Fans
  14. Cellebrite Claims It Can Unlock Any iPhone
  15. I'm Leaving IBM
  16. Yubico Security Keys with a Crypto Flaw
  17. Google Releases Basic Homomorphic Encryption Tool
  18. Digital License Plates
  19. US Journalist Detained When Returning to US
  20. Research on Human Honesty
  21. Applied Cryptography is Banned in Oregon Prisons
  22. Ransomware Recovery Firms Who Secretly Pay Hackers
  23. Cardiac Biometric
  24. Cell Networks Hacked by (Probable) Nation-State Attackers
  25. Details of the Cloud Hopper Attacks
  26. Resetting Your GE Smart Light Bulb
  27. Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang Has Quantum Encryption Policy
  28. Clickable Endnotes to Click Here to Kill Everybody
  29. Upcoming Speaking Engagements

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