Crypto-Gram: 2022 Archives
May 15, 2022
In this issue:
- Undetectable Backdoors in Machine-Learning Models
- Clever Cryptocurrency Theft
- Long Article on NSO Group
- Java Cryptography Implementation Mistake Allows Digital-Signature Forgeries
- SMS Phishing Attacks are on the Rise
- Zero-Day Vulnerabilities Are on the Rise
- Microsoft Issues Report of Russian Cyberattacks against Ukraine
- Video Conferencing Apps Sometimes Ignore the Mute Button
- Using Pupil Reflection in Smartphone Camera Selfies
- New Sophisticated Malware
- 15.3 Million Request-Per-Second DDoS Attack
- Corporate Involvement in International Cybersecurity Treaties
- Apple Mail Now Blocks Email Trackers
- ICE Is a Domestic Surveillance Agency
- Surveillance by Driverless Car
- Upcoming Speaking Engagements
April 15, 2022
In this issue:
- US Critical Infrastructure Companies Will Have to Report When They Are Hacked
- Breaking RSA through Insufficiently Random Primes
- “Change Password”
- Why Vaccine Cards Are So Easily Forged
- Developer Sabotages Open-Source Software Package
- White House Warns of Possible Russian Cyberattacks
- NASA’s Insider Threat Program
- Linux Improves Its Random Number Generator
- Gus Simmons’s Memoir
- A Detailed Look at the Conti Ransomware Gang
- Stalking with an Apple Watch
- Chrome Zero-Day from North Korea
- Bypassing Two-Factor Authentication
- Wyze Camera Vulnerability
- Hackers Using Fake Police Data Requests against Tech Companies
- Cyberweapons Arms Manufacturer FinFisher Shuts Down
- US Disrupts Russian Botnet
- AirTags Are Used for Stalking Far More than Previously Reported
- De-anonymizing Bitcoin
- John Oliver on Data Brokers
- Russian Cyberattack against Ukrainian Power Grid Prevented
- Industrial Control System Malware Discovered
- Upcoming Speaking Engagements
March 15, 2022
In this issue:
- Secret CIA Data Collection Program
- Vendors are Fixing Security Flaws Faster
- Possible Government Surveillance of the Otter.ai Transcription App
- Stealing Bicycles by Swapping QR Codes
- A New Cybersecurity “Social Contract”
- Bypassing Apple’s AirTag Security
- An Elaborate Employment Con in the Internet Age
- Privacy Violating COVID Tests
- Insurance Coverage for NotPetya Losses
- Decrypting Hive Ransomware Data
- Vulnerability in Stalkerware Apps
- Details of an NSA Hacking Operation
- Samsung Encryption Flaw
- Hacking Alexa through Alexa’s Speech
- Using Radar to Read Body Language
- Fraud on Zelle
- Where’s the Russia-Ukraine Cyberwar?
- Leak of Russian Censorship Data
- Upcoming Speaking Events
February 15, 2022
In this issue:
- An Examination of the Bug Bounty Marketplace
- UK Government to Launch PR Campaign Undermining End-to-End Encryption
- Are Fake COVID Testing Sites Harvesting Data?
- San Francisco Police Illegally Spying on Protesters
- China’s Olympics App Is Horribly Insecure
- Linux-Targeted Malware Increased by 35%
- Merck Wins Insurance Lawsuit re NotPetya Attack
- New DeadBolt Ransomware Targets NAS Devices
- Tracking Secret German Organizations with Apple AirTags
- Twelve-Year-Old Linux Vulnerability Discovered and Patched
- Me on App Store Monopolies and Security
- Finding Vulnerabilities in Open Source Projects
- Interview with the Head of the NSA’s Research Directorate
- The EARN IT Act Is Back
- Amy Zegart on Spycraft in the Internet Age
- Breaking 256-bit Elliptic Curve Encryption with a Quantum Computer
- Bunnie Huang’s Plausibly Deniable Database
- On the Irish Health Services Executive Hack
- Upcoming Speaking Engagements
January 15, 2022
In this issue:
- More Log4j News
- More on NSO Group and Cytrox: Two Cyberweapons Arms Manufacturers
- Stolen Bitcoins Returned
- Apple AirTags Are Being Used to Track People and Cars
- More Russian Cyber Operations against Ukraine
- People Are Increasingly Choosing Private Web Search
- Norton’s Antivirus Product Now Includes an Ethereum Miner
- Fake QR Codes on Parking Meters
- Apple’s Private Relay Is Being Blocked
- Faking an iPhone Reboot
- Using Foreign Nationals to Bypass US Surveillance Restrictions
- Using EM Waves to Detect Malware
- Upcoming Speaking Engagements
Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.