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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February 15, 2026

In this issue:

  1. New Vulnerability in n8n
  2. AI and the Corporate Capture of Knowledge
  3. AI-Powered Surveillance in Schools
  4. Could ChatGPT Convince You to Buy Something?
  5. Internet Voting is Too Insecure for Use in Elections
  6. Why AI Keeps Falling for Prompt Injection Attacks
  7. Ireland Proposes Giving Police New Digital Surveillance Powers
  8. The Constitutionality of Geofence Warrants
  9. AIs Are Getting Better at Finding and Exploiting Security Vulnerabilities
  10. AI Coding Assistants Secretly Copying All Code to China
  11. Microsoft is Giving the FBI BitLocker Keys
  12. US Declassifies Information on JUMPSEAT Spy Satellites
  13. Backdoor in Notepad++
  14. iPhone Lockdown Mode Protects Washington Post Reporter
  15. I Am in the Epstein Files
  16. LLMs are Getting a Lot Better and Faster at Finding and Exploiting Zero-Days
  17. AI-Generated Text and the Detection Arms Race
  18. Prompt Injection Via Road Signs
  19. Rewiring Democracy Ebook is on Sale
  20. 3D Printer Surveillance
  21. Upcoming Speaking Engagements

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January 15, 2026

In this issue:

  1. Against the Federal Moratorium on State-Level Regulation of AI
  2. Chinese Surveillance and AI
  3. Deliberate Internet Shutdowns
  4. Someone Boarded a Plane at Heathrow Without a Ticket or Passport
  5. AI Advertising Company Hacked
  6. Microsoft Is Finally Killing RC4
  7. Denmark Accuses Russia of Conducting Two Cyberattacks
  8. Urban VPN Proxy Surreptitiously Intercepts AI Chats
  9. IoT Hack
  10. Are We Ready to Be Governed by Artificial Intelligence?
  11. Using AI-Generated Images to Get Refunds
  12. LinkedIn Job Scams
  13. Flock Exposes Its AI-Enabled Surveillance Cameras
  14. Telegram Hosting World’s Largest Darknet Market
  15. A Cyberattack Was Part of the US Assault on Venezuela
  16. The Wegman’s Supermarket Chain Is Probably Using Facial Recognition
  17. AI & Humans: Making the Relationship Work
  18. Palo Alto Crosswalk Signals Had Default Passwords
  19. Corrupting LLMs Through Weird Generalizations
  20. 1980s Hacker Manifesto
  21. Upcoming Speaking Engagements
  22. Hacking Wheelchairs over Bluetooth

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December 15, 2025

In this issue:

  1. More Prompt||GTFO
  2. AI and Voter Engagement
  3. Legal Restrictions on Vulnerability Disclosure
  4. Scam USPS and E-Z Pass Texts and Websites
  5. AI as Cyberattacker
  6. More on Rewiring Democracy
  7. IACR Nullifies Election Because of Lost Decryption Key
  8. Four Ways AI Is Being Used to Strengthen Democracies Worldwide
  9. Huawei and Chinese Surveillance
  10. Prompt Injection Through Poetry
  11. Banning VPNs
  12. Like Social Media, AI Requires Difficult Choices
  13. New Anonymous Phone Service
  14. Substitution Cipher Based on The Voynich Manuscript
  15. AI vs. Human Drivers
  16. FBI Warns of Fake Video Scams
  17. AIs Exploiting Smart Contracts
  18. Building Trustworthy AI Agents
  19. Upcoming Speaking Engagements

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