Schneier on Security

In this issue:

1. A Security Vulnerability in the KmsdBot Botnet
2. Apple Patches iPhone Zero-Day
3. As Long as We’re on the Subject of CAPTCHAs
4. How to Surrender to a Drone
5. Trojaned Windows Installer Targets Ukraine
6. Ukraine Intercepting Russian Soldiers’ Cell Phone Calls
7. Critical Microsoft Code-Execution Vulnerability
8. Hacking the JFK Airport Taxi Dispatch System
9. LastPass Breach
10. Arresting IT Administrators
11. QR Code Scam
12. Recovering Smartphone Voice from the Accelerometer
13. Breaking RSA with a Quantum Computer
14. Decarbonizing Cryptocurrencies through Taxation
15. Remote Vulnerabilities in Automobiles
16. Schneier on Security Audiobook Sale
17. Identifying People Using Cell Phone Location Data
18. ChatGPT-Written Malware
19. Experian Privacy Vulnerability
20. Threats of Machine-Generated Text
21. Booklist Review of A Hacker’s Mind
22. Upcoming Speaking Engagements

In this issue:

1. Another Event-Related Spyware App
2. Russian Software Company Pretending to Be American
3. Failures in Twitter’s Two-Factor Authentication System
4. Successful Hack of Time-Triggered Ethernet
5. First Review of A Hacker’s Mind
6. Breaking the Zeppelin Ransomware Encryption Scheme
7. Apple’s Device Analytics Can Identify iCloud Users
8. The US Has a Shortage of Bomb-Sniffing Dogs
9. Computer Repair Technicians Are Stealing Your Data
10. Charles V of Spain Secret Code Cracked
11. Facebook Fined $276M under GDPR
12. Sirius XM Software Vulnerability
13. LastPass Security Breach
14. Existential Risk and the Fermi Paradox
15. CAPTCHA
16. CryWiper Data Wiper Targeting Russian Sites
17. The Decoupling Principle
18. Leaked Signing Keys Are Being Used to Sign Malware
19. Security Vulnerabilities in Eufy Cameras
20. Hacking Trespass Law
21. Apple Is Finally Encrypting iCloud Backups
22. Obligatory ChatGPT Post
23. Hacking Boston’s CharlieCard
24. Recreating Democracy

In this issue:

1. New Book: A Hacker’s Mind
2. Hacking Automobile Keyless Entry Systems
3. Qatar Spyware
4. Museum Security
5. Interview with Signal’s New President
6. Adversarial ML Attack that Secretly Gives a Language Model a Point of View
7. On the Randomness of Automatic Card Shufflers
8. Australia Increases Fines for Massive Data Breaches
9. Critical Vulnerability in Open SSL
10. Apple Only Commits to Patching Latest OS Version
11. Iran’s Digital Surveillance Tools Leaked
12. NSA on Supply Chain Security
13. The Conviction of Uber’s Chief Security Officer
14. Using Wi-FI to See through Walls
15. Defeating Phishing-Resistant Multifactor Authentication
16. An Untrustworthy TLS Certificate in Browsers
17. NSA Over-surveillance
18. A Digital Red Cross
19. Upcoming Speaking Engagements

In this issue:

1. Relay Attack against Teslas
2. Massive Data Breach at Uber
3. Large-Scale Collection of Cell Phone Data at US Borders
4. Credit Card Fraud That Bypasses 2FA
5. Automatic Cheating Detection in Human Racing
6. Prompt Injection/Extraction Attacks against AI Systems
7. Leaking Screen Information on Zoom Calls through Reflections in Eyeglasses
8. Leaking Passwords through the Spellchecker
9. New Report on IoT Security
10. Cold War Bugging of Soviet Facilities
11. Differences in App Security/Privacy Based on Country
12. Security Vulnerabilities in Covert CIA Websites
13. Detecting Deepfake Audio by Modeling the Human Acoustic Tract
14. NSA Employee Charged with Espionage
15. October Is Cybersecurity Awareness Month
16. Spyware Maker Intellexa Sued by Journalist
17. Complex Impersonation Story
18. Inserting a Backdoor into a Machine-Learning System
19. Recovering Passwords by Measuring Residual Heat
20. Digital License Plates
21. Regulating DAOs
22. Upcoming Speaking Engagements

In this issue:

1. $23 Million YouTube Royalties Scam
2. Remotely Controlling Touchscreens
3. Zoom Exploit on MacOS
4. USB “Rubber Ducky” Attack Tool
5. Hyundai Uses Example Keys for Encryption System
6. Signal Phone Numbers Exposed in Twilio Hack
7. Mudge Files Whistleblower Complaint against Twitter
8. Man-in-the-Middle Phishing Attack
9. Security and Cheap Complexity
10. Levels of Assurance for DoD Microelectronics
11. FTC Sues Data Broker
12. High-School Graduation Prank Hack
13. Clever Phishing Scam Uses Legitimate PayPal Messages
14. Montenegro Is the Victim of a Cyberattack
15. The LockBit Ransomware Gang Is Surprisingly Professional
16. Facebook Has No Idea What Data It Has
17. Responsible Disclosure for Cryptocurrency Security
18. New Linux Cryptomining Malware
19. FBI Seizes Stolen Cryptocurrencies
20. Weird Fallout from Peiter Zatko’s Twitter Whistleblowing
21. Upcoming Speaking Engagements

In this issue:

1. San Francisco Police Want Real-Time Access to Private Surveillance Cameras
2. Facebook Is Now Encrypting Links to Prevent URL Stripping
3. NSO Group’s Pegasus Spyware Used against Thailand Pro-Democracy Activists and Leaders
4. Russia Creates Malware False-Flag App
5. Critical Vulnerabilities in GPS Trackers
6. Apple’s Lockdown Mode
7. Securing Open-Source Software
8. New UEFI Rootkit
9. Microsoft Zero-Days Sold and Then Used
10. Ring Gives Videos to Police without a Warrant or User Consent
11. Surveillance of Your Car
12. Drone Deliveries into Prisons
13. SIKE Broken
14. NIST’s Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards
15. Hacking Starlink
16. A Taxonomy of Access Control
17. Twitter Exposes Personal Information for 5.4 Million Accounts
18. Upcoming Speaking Engagements

In this issue:

1. M1 Chip Vulnerability
2. Attacking the Performance of Machine Learning Systems
3. Tracking People via Bluetooth on Their Phones
4. Hertzbleed: A New Side-Channel Attack
5. Hidden Anti-Cryptography Provisions in Internet Anti-Trust Bills
6. Symbiote Backdoor in Linux
7. On the Subversion of NIST by the NSA
8. On the Dangers of Cryptocurrencies and the Uselessness of Blockchain
9. 2022 Workshop on Economics and Information Security (WEIS)
10. When Security Locks You Out of Everything
11. Ecuador’s Attempt to Resettle Edward Snowden
12. ZuoRAT Malware Is Targeting Routers
13. Analyzing the Swiss E-Voting System
14. NIST Announces First Four Quantum-Resistant Cryptographic Algorithms
15. Ubiquitous Surveillance by ICE
16. Apple’s Lockdown Mode
17. Nigerian Prison Break
18. Security Vulnerabilities in Honda’s Keyless Entry System
19. Post-Roe Privacy
20. New Browser De-anonymization Technique
21. Upcoming Speaking Engagements

In this issue:

1. The NSA Says that There are No Known Flaws in NIST’s Quantum-Resistant Algorithms
2. Attacks on Managed Service Providers Expected to Increase
3. iPhone Malware that Operates Even When the Phone Is Turned Off
4. Websites that Collect Your Data as You Type
5. Bluetooth Flaw Allows Remote Unlocking of Digital Locks
6. The Onion on Google Map Surveillance
7. Forging Australian Driver’s Licenses
8. The Justice Department Will No Longer Charge Security Researchers with Criminal Hacking
9. Manipulating Machine-Learning Systems through the Order of the Training Data
10. Malware-Infested Smart Card Reader
11. Security and Human Behavior (SHB) 2022
12. The Limits of Cyber Operations in Wartime
13. Clever — and Exploitable — Windows Zero-Day
14. Remotely Controlling Touchscreens
15. Me on Public-Interest Tech
16. Long Story on the Accused CIA Vault 7 Leaker
17. Leaking Military Secrets on Gaming Discussion Boards
18. Smartphones and Civilians in Wartime
19. Twitter Used Two-Factor Login Details for Ad Targeting
20. Cryptanalysis of ENCSecurity’s Encryption Implementation
21. Hacking Tesla’s Remote Key Cards
22. Upcoming Speaking Engagements

In this issue:

1. Undetectable Backdoors in Machine-Learning Models
2. Clever Cryptocurrency Theft
3. Long Article on NSO Group
4. Java Cryptography Implementation Mistake Allows Digital-Signature Forgeries
5. SMS Phishing Attacks are on the Rise
6. Zero-Day Vulnerabilities Are on the Rise
7. Microsoft Issues Report of Russian Cyberattacks against Ukraine
8. Video Conferencing Apps Sometimes Ignore the Mute Button
9. Using Pupil Reflection in Smartphone Camera Selfies
10. New Sophisticated Malware
11. 15.3 Million Request-Per-Second DDoS Attack
12. Corporate Involvement in International Cybersecurity Treaties
13. Apple Mail Now Blocks Email Trackers
14. ICE Is a Domestic Surveillance Agency
15. Surveillance by Driverless Car
16. Upcoming Speaking Engagements

In this issue:

1. US Critical Infrastructure Companies Will Have to Report When They Are Hacked
2. Breaking RSA through Insufficiently Random Primes
3. “Change Password”
4. Why Vaccine Cards Are So Easily Forged
5. Developer Sabotages Open-Source Software Package
6. White House Warns of Possible Russian Cyberattacks
7. NASA’s Insider Threat Program
8. Linux Improves Its Random Number Generator
9. Gus Simmons’s Memoir
10. A Detailed Look at the Conti Ransomware Gang
11. Stalking with an Apple Watch
12. Chrome Zero-Day from North Korea
13. Bypassing Two-Factor Authentication
14. Wyze Camera Vulnerability
15. Hackers Using Fake Police Data Requests against Tech Companies
16. Cyberweapons Arms Manufacturer FinFisher Shuts Down
17. US Disrupts Russian Botnet
18. AirTags Are Used for Stalking Far More than Previously Reported
19. De-anonymizing Bitcoin
20. John Oliver on Data Brokers
21. Russian Cyberattack against Ukrainian Power Grid Prevented
22. Industrial Control System Malware Discovered
23. Upcoming Speaking Engagements