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, 2020

In this issue:

  1. 2020 Workshop on Economics of Information Security
  2. US Cyber Command and Microsoft Are Both Disrupting TrickBot
  3. Split-Second Phantom Images Fool Autopilots
  4. Cybersecurity Visuals
  5. NSA Advisory on Chinese Government Hacking
  6. New Report on Police Decryption Capabilities
  7. IMSI-Catchers from Canada
  8. Reverse-Engineering the Redactions in the Ghislaine Maxwell Deposition
  9. The NSA is Refusing to Disclose its Policy on Backdooring Commercial Products
  10. Tracking Users on Waze
  11. The Legal Risks of Security Research
  12. New Windows Zero-Day
  13. Determining What Video Conference Participants Are Typing from Watching Shoulder Movements
  14. California Proposition 24 Passes
  15. Detecting Phishing Emails
  16. 2020 Was a Secure Election
  17. The Security Failures of Online Exam Proctoring
  18. "Privacy Nutrition Labels" in Apple's App Store
  19. New Zealand Election Fraud
  20. Inrupt's Solid Announcement
  21. Upcoming Speaking Engagements

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October 15, 2020

In this issue:

  1. Interesting Attack on the EMV Smartcard Payment Standard
  2. Upcoming Speaking Engagements
  3. Privacy Analysis of Ambient Light Sensors
  4. How the FIN7 Cybercrime Gang Operates
  5. New Bluetooth Vulnerability
  6. Matt Blaze on OTP Radio Stations
  7. Nihilistic Password Security Questions
  8. Former NSA Director Keith Alexander Joins Amazon's Board of Directors
  9. Amazon Delivery Drivers Hacking Scheduling System
  10. Interview with the Author of the 2000 Love Bug Virus
  11. Documented Death from a Ransomware Attack
  12. Iranian Government Hacking Android
  13. CEO of NS8 Charged with Securities Fraud
  14. On Executive Order 12333
  15. Hacking a Coffee Maker
  16. Negotiating with Ransomware Gangs
  17. Detecting Deep Fakes with a Heartbeat
  18. COVID-19 and Acedia
  19. On Risk-Based Authentication
  20. Swiss-Swedish Diplomatic Row Over Crypto AG
  21. New Privacy Features in iOS 14
  22. Hacking Apple for Profit
  23. Google Responds to Warrants for "About" Searches

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September 15, 2020

In this issue:

  1. Robocall Results from a Telephony Honeypot
  2. Vaccine for Emotet Malware
  3. Using Disinformation to Cause a Blackout
  4. Copying a Key by Listening to It in Action
  5. Yet Another Biometric: Bioacoustic Signatures
  6. DiceKeys
  7. Identifying People by Their Browsing Histories
  8. Amazon Supplier Fraud
  9. Cory Doctorow on The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
  10. US Postal Service Files Blockchain Voting Patent
  11. Seny Kamara on "Crypto for the People"
  12. North Korea ATM Hack
  13. Insider Attack on the Carnegie Library
  14. 2017 Tesla Hack
  15. Hacking AI-Graded Tests
  16. More on NIST's Post-Quantum Cryptography
  17. US Space Cybersecurity Directive
  18. The Third Edition of Ross Anderson's Security Engineering
  19. Ranking National Cyber Power
  20. Interesting Attack on the EMV Smartcard Payment Standard
  21. Upcoming Speaking Engagements

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