Crypto-Gram: 2015 Archives
December 15, 2015
In this issue:
- Policy Repercussions of the Paris Terrorist Attacks
- NSA Collected Americans’ E-mails Even After it Stopped Collecting Americans’ E-mails
- News
- Reputation in the Information Age
- Schneier News
- On CISA
- Voter Surveillance
- Resilient Systems News
- Worldwide Cryptographic Products Survey: Edits and Additions Wanted
- Security vs. Business Flexibility
October 15, 2015
In this issue:
- Volkswagen and Cheating Software
- Living in a Code Yellow World
- Obama Administration Not Pursuing a Backdoor to Commercial Encryption
- News
- Stealing Fingerprints
- Automatic Face Recognition and Surveillance
- Schneier News
- Resilient Systems News
- Bringing Frozen Liquids through Airport Security
- SHA-1 Freestart Collision
September 15, 2015
In this issue:
- The Security Risks of Third-Party Data
- NSA Plans for a Post-Quantum World
- Drone Self-Defense and the Law
- News
- Hacking Team, Computer Vulnerabilities, and the NSA
- TSA Master Keys
- Oracle CSO Rant Against Security Experts
- Schneier News
- FBI and Apple’s Encryption
- Animals vs. Drones
- Glenn Greenwald Debates Keith Alexander
- Wanted: Cryptography Products for Worldwide Survey
August 15, 2015
In this issue:
- Moving Crypto-Gram: An Update
- Backdoors Won’t Solve Comey’s Going Dark Problem
- Another Salvo in the Second Crypto War (of Words)
- News
- Cosa Nostra Dead Drops
- Bizarre High-Tech Kidnapping
- Fugitive Located by Spotify
- Schneier News
- Intimidating Military Personnel by Targeting Their Families
- Stagefright Vulnerability in Android Phones
July 15, 2015
In this issue:
- Crypto-Gram Is Moving (Please Read!)
- Twitter Followers: Please Use the Correct Feed
- Organizational Doxing
- Why We Encrypt
- The Secrecy of the Snowden Documents
- News
- The Risks of Mandating Backdoors in Encryption Products
- What is the DoD’s Position on Backdoors in Security Systems?
- Office of Personnel Management Data Hack
- Schneier News
- More about the NSA’s XKEYSCORE
- Hayden Mocks NSA Reforms
- NSA French and German Intercepts
- Hacking Team Is Hacked
June 15, 2015
In this issue:
- The Logjam (and Another) Vulnerability against Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
- NSA Running a Massive IDS on the Internet Backbone
- Duqu 2.0
- Why the Recent Section 215 Reform Debate Doesn’t Matter Much
- News
- TSA Not Detecting Weapons at Security Checkpoints
- Reassessing Airport Security
- Chris Roberts and Avionics Security
- Encrypting Windows Hard Drives
- Schneier News
- Should Companies Do Most of Their Computing in the Cloud? (Part 1)
- Should Companies Do Most of Their Computing in the Cloud? (Part 2)
- Should Companies Do Most of Their Computing in the Cloud? (Part 3)
- Eighth Movie-Plot Threat Contest Winner
May 15, 2015
In this issue:
- “Admiral Rogers Speaking at the Joint Service Academy Cyber Security Summit”
- The Further Democratization of QUANTUM
- The Further Democratization of Stingray
- News
- Eighth Movie-Plot Threat Contest Semifinalists
- Hacking Airplanes
- Schneier News
- Counting the US Intelligence Community Leakers
- “Hinky” in Action
March 15, 2015
In this issue:
- “Data and Goliath”‘s Big Idea
- “Data and Goliath” News
- Everyone Wants You To Have Security, But Not from Them
- The Democratization of Cyberattack
- News
- The Equation Group’s Sophisticated Hacking and Exploitation Tools
- Ford Proud that “Mustang” Is a Common Password
- Attack Attribution and Cyber Conflict
- Co3 Systems Changes Its Name to Resilient Systems
- Schneier News
- FREAK: Security Rollback Attack Against SSL
- Can the NSA Break Microsoft’s BitLocker?
- Hardware Bit-Flipping Attack
February 15, 2015
In this issue:
- Samsung Television Spies on Viewers
- Accountability as a Security System
- When Thinking Machines Break the Law
- News
- Obama Says Terrorism Is Not an Existential Threat
- National Academies Report on Bulk Intelligence Collection
- Schneier News
- Co3 Systems News
- My Superpower
- New Book: “Data and Goliath”
- DEA Also Conducting Mass Telephone Surveillance
January 15, 2015
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Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.