Crypto-Gram Newsletter

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

Recent Issues

January 15, 2021

In this issue:

  1. Another Massive Russian Hack of US Government Networks
  2. How the SolarWinds Hackers Bypassed Duo's Multi-Factor Authentication
  3. Zodiac Killer Cipher Solved
  4. Mexican Drug Cartels with High-Tech Spyware
  5. More on the SolarWinds Breach
  6. US Schools Are Buying Cell Phone Unlocking Systems
  7. NSA on Authentication Hacks (Related to SolarWinds Breach)
  8. Eavesdropping on Phone Taps from Voice Assistants
  9. Investigating the Navalny Poisoning
  10. How China Uses Stolen US Personnel Data
  11. Russia's SolarWinds Attack
  12. On the Evolution of Ransomware
  13. Brexit Deal Mandates Old Insecure Crypto Algorithms
  14. Amazon Has Trucks Filled with Hard Drives and an Armed Guard
  15. Military Cryptanalytics, Part III
  16. Latest on the SVR's SolarWinds Hack
  17. Backdoor in Zyxel Firewalls and Gateways
  18. Extracting Personal Information from Large Language Models Like GPT-2
  19. Russia's SolarWinds Attack and Software Security
  20. APT Horoscope
  21. Changes in WhatsApp's Privacy Policy
  22. Cloning Google Titan 2FA keys
  23. On US Capitol Security -- By Someone Who Manages Arena-Rock-Concert Security
  24. Finding the Location of Telegram Users
  25. Upcoming Speaking Engagements
  26. Click Here to Kill Everybody Sale

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December 15, 2020

In this issue:

  1. On Blockchain Voting
  2. Michael Ellis as NSA General Counsel
  3. The US Military Buys Commercial Location Data
  4. Symantec Reports on Cicada APT Attacks against Japan
  5. Indistinguishability Obfuscation
  6. More on the Security of the 2020 US Election
  7. On That Dusseldorf Hospital Ransomware Attack and the Resultant Death
  8. Cyber Public Health
  9. Undermining Democracy
  10. Check Washing
  11. Manipulating Systems Using Remote Lasers
  12. Impressive iPhone Exploit
  13. Open Source Does Not Equal Secure
  14. Enigma Machine Recovered from the Baltic Sea
  15. The 2020 Workshop on Economics and Information Security (WEIS)
  16. Hiding Malware in Social Media Buttons
  17. Oblivious DNS-over-HTTPS
  18. FireEye Hacked
  19. Finnish Data Theft and Extortion
  20. A Cybersecurity Policy Agenda
  21. Authentication Failure
  22. Upcoming Speaking Engagements
  23. Should There Be Limits on Persuasive Technologies?

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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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