Crypto-Gram Newsletter
Crypto-Gram is a free monthly e-mail digest of posts from Bruce Schneier’s Schneier on Security blog.
Recent Issues
June 15, 2024
In this issue:
- Zero-Trust DNS
- FBI Seizes BreachForums Website
- IBM Sells Cybersecurity Group
- Detecting Malicious Trackers
- Unredacting Pixelated Text
- Personal AI Assistants and Privacy
- On the Zero-Day Market
- Lattice-Based Cryptosystems and Quantum Cryptanalysis
- Privacy Implications of Tracking Wireless Access Points
- Supply Chain Attack against Courtroom Software
- How AI Will Change Democracy
- AI Will Increase the Quantity—and Quality—of Phishing Scams
- Seeing Like a Data Structure
- Breaking a Password Manager
- Online Privacy and Overfishing
- Espionage with a Drone
- The Justice Department Took Down the 911 S5 Botnet
- Security and Human Behavior (SHB) 2024
- Exploiting Mistyped URLs
- LLMs Acting Deceptively
- Using AI for Political Polling
- AI and the Indian Election
- Demo of AES GCM Misuse Problems
- Upcoming Speaking Engagements
May 15, 2024
In this issue:
- New Lattice Cryptanalytic Technique
- X.com Automatically Changing Link Text but Not URLs
- Using AI-Generated Legislative Amendments as a Delaying Technique
- Other Attempts to Take Over Open Source Projects
- Using Legitimate GitHub URLs for Malware
- Microsoft and Security Incentives
- Dan Solove on Privacy Regulation
- The Rise of Large-Language-Model Optimization
- Long Article on GM Spying on Its Cars' Drivers
- Whale Song Code
- WhatsApp in India
- AI Voice Scam
- The UK Bans Default Passwords
- Rare Interviews with Enigma Cryptanalyst Marian Rejewski
- My TED Talks
- New Lawsuit Attempting to Make Adversarial Interoperability Legal
- New Attack on VPNs
- How Criminals Are Using Generative AI
- New Attack Against Self-Driving Car AI
- LLMs’ Data-Control Path Insecurity
- Another Chrome Vulnerability
- Upcoming Speaking Engagements
April 15, 2024
In this issue:
- Improving C++
- Drones and the US Air Force
- AI and the Evolution of Social Media
- Cheating Automatic Toll Booths by Obscuring License Plates
- Public AI as an Alternative to Corporate AI
- Google Pays $10M in Bug Bounties in 2023
- Licensing AI Engineers
- On Secure Voting Systems
- Security Vulnerability in Saflok’s RFID-Based Keycard Locks
- Hardware Vulnerability in Apple’s M-Series Chips
- Lessons from a Ransomware Attack against the British Library
- Ross Anderson
- Magic Security Dust
- Declassified NSA Newsletters
- XZ Utils Backdoor
- Class-Action Lawsuit against Google’s Incognito Mode
- Surveillance by the New Microsoft Outlook App
- Maybe the Phone System Surveillance Vulnerabilities Will Be Fixed
- Security Vulnerability of HTML Emails
- US Cyber Safety Review Board on the 2023 Microsoft Exchange Hack
- In Memoriam: Ross Anderson, 1956-2024
- Backdoor in XZ Utils That Almost Happened
- Smuggling Gold by Disguising it as Machine Parts
- Upcoming Speaking Engagements
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