Crypto-Gram Newsletter

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October 15, 2019

In this issue:

  1. Another Side Channel in Intel Chips
  2. Cracking Forgotten Passwords
  3. I'm Looking to Hire a Strategist to Help Figure Out Public-Interest Tech
  4. Revisiting Software Vulnerabilities in the Boeing 787
  5. New Biometrics
  6. A Feminist Take on Information Privacy
  7. Crown Sterling Claims to Factor RSA Keylengths First Factored Twenty Years Ago
  8. France Outlines Its Approach to Cyberwar
  9. Russians Hack FBI Comms System
  10. Ineffective Package Tracking Facilitates Fraud
  11. On Chinese "Spy Trains"
  12. Superhero Movies and Security Lessons
  13. Supply-Chain Security and Trust
  14. NSA on the Future of National Cybersecurity
  15. New Research into Russian Malware
  16. Measuring the Security of IoT Devices
  17. Tracking by Smart TVs
  18. More Cryptanalysis of Solitaire
  19. Edward Snowden's Memoirs
  20. New Unpatchable iPhone Exploit Allows Jailbreaking
  21. Speakers Censored at AISA Conference in Melbourne
  22. Illegal Data Center Hidden in Former NATO Bunker
  23. Cheating at Professional Poker
  24. Wi-Fi Hotspot Tracking
  25. New Reductor Nation-State Malware Compromises TLS
  26. Details on Uzbekistan Government Malware: SandCat
  27. I Have a New Book: We Have Root
  28. Factoring 2048-bit Numbers Using 20 Million Qubits

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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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