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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December 15, 2024

In this issue:

  1. Good Essay on the History of Bad Password Policies
  2. Most of 2023’s Top Exploited Vulnerabilities Were Zero-Days
  3. Why Italy Sells So Much Spyware
  4. Steve Bellovin’s Retirement Talk
  5. Secret Service Tracking People’s Locations without Warrant
  6. The Scale of Geoblocking by Nation
  7. Security Analysis of the MERGE Voting Protocol
  8. What Graykey Can and Can’t Unlock
  9. NSO Group Spies on People on Behalf of Governments
  10. Race Condition Attacks against LLMs
  11. Details about the iOS Inactivity Reboot Feature
  12. Algorithms Are Coming for Democracy—but It’s Not All Bad
  13. AI and the 2024 Elections
  14. Detecting Pegasus Infections
  15. Trust Issues in AI
  16. Full-Face Masks to Frustrate Identification
  17. Jailbreaking LLM-Controlled Robots
  18. Ultralytics Supply-Chain Attack
  19. Upcoming Speaking Events

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November 15, 2024

In this issue:

  1. More Details on Israel Sabotaging Hezbollah Pagers and Walkie-Talkies
  2. Cheating at Conkers
  3. Justice Department Indicts Tech CEO for Falsifying Security Certifications
  4. AI and the SEC Whistleblower Program
  5. No, the Chinese Have Not Broken Modern Encryption Systems with a Quantum Computer
  6. Are Automatic License Plate Scanners Constitutional?
  7. Watermark for LLM-Generated Text
  8. Criminals Are Blowing up ATMs in Germany
  9. Law Enforcement Deanonymizes Tor Users
  10. Simson Garfinkel on Spooky Cryptographic Action at a Distance
  11. Tracking World Leaders Using Strava
  12. Roger Grimes on Prioritizing Cybersecurity Advice
  13. Sophos Versus the Chinese Hackers
  14. AIs Discovering Vulnerabilities
  15. IoT Devices in Password-Spraying Botnet
  16. Subverting LLM Coders
  17. Prompt Injection Defenses Against LLM Cyberattacks
  18. AI Industry is Trying to Subvert the Definition of “Open Source AI”
  19. Criminals Exploiting FBI Emergency Data Requests
  20. Mapping License Plate Scanners in the US
  21. New iOS Security Feature Makes It Harder for Police to Unlock Seized Phones

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October 15, 2024

In this issue:

  1. Legacy Ivanti Cloud Service Appliance Being Exploited
  2. Python Developers Targeted with Malware During Fake Job Interviews
  3. Remotely Exploding Pagers
  4. FBI Shuts Down Chinese Botnet
  5. Clever Social Engineering Attack Using Captchas
  6. Hacking the "Bike Angels" System for Moving Bikeshares
  7. Israel’s Pager Attacks and Supply Chain Vulnerabilities
  8. New Windows Malware Locks Computer in Kiosk Mode
  9. An Analysis of the EU’s Cyber Resilience Act
  10. NIST Recommends Some Common-Sense Password Rules
  11. AI and the 2024 US Elections
  12. Hacking ChatGPT by Planting False Memories into Its Data
  13. California AI Safety Bill Vetoed
  14. Weird Zimbra Vulnerability
  15. Largest Recorded DDoS Attack is 3.8 Tbps
  16. China Possibly Hacking US "Lawful Access" Backdoor
  17. Auto-Identification Smart Glasses
  18. Deebot Robot Vacuums Are Using Photos and Audio to Train Their AI
  19. IronNet Has Shut Down
  20. More on My AI and Democracy Book
  21. Perfectl Malware
  22. Upcoming Speaking Engagements

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