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Cyberattack Prediction: Hackers Will Target a US Election Next Year
A major cyberattack next year will target a U.S. election, security expert Bruce Schneier predicts.
The attack won’t hit the voting system and may not involve the presidential election, but the temptation for hackers is too great, even in state and local races, said Schneier, a computer security pioneer and longtime commentator.
“There are going to be hacks that affect politics in the United States,” Schneier said. Attackers may break into candidates’ websites, e-mail or social media accounts to uncover material the campaigns don’t want public, he said…
Book Review: Beyond Fear by Bruce Schneier
Each and every one of us makes security decisions every day, sometimes even without thinking about it. Should i buy items with my credit card or is doing so too risky? Should i park in the underground parking slot or is it safe enough to park on a side-street next to the building? How often should i brush my teeth? These are some of the many security decisions we make every day.
But how often do we stop to think: are we making ‘good’ security decisions or ‘poor’ ones?
Are our decisions based on fear, uncertainty, and doubt, or are our decisions based on real information and a repeatable decision-making process?…
Video: Bruce Schneier Receives the Business Leader in Cybersecurity Award from Boston Global Forum
Bruce Schneier was honored as the Business Leader in Cybersecurity by the Boston Global Forum, for dedicating his career to the betterment of technology security and privacy.
Mr. Schneier attended and sent his acceptance speech remotely via online conference.
Holiday Gift Guide: Good Reads Worth the Investment
Excerpt
Data and Goliath
by Bruce Schneier
W. W. Norton & Company
From the moment you wake up, you start generating data. Your phone tracks your movements. Your purchases signal whether you’re sick or pregnant or going on vacation. In the background, this information is collected and analyzed. This book looks at how this surveillance state of our own creation affects us.
Datenschutz in Rücklage
Hansueli Schöchli reviewed the German edition of Data and Goliath for Neue Zürcher Zeitung.
Rolling Back Mass Surveillance
Bruce Schneier is a man worth listening to. In 1993, just as the Internet was gaining speed, he wrote one of the earliest books on applying cryptography to network communications, and has since become a well-known security specialist and author of about a dozen books on Internet security and related matters. So when someone like Schneier says we’re in big trouble and we need to do something fast to keep it from getting worse, we should at least pay attention.
The trouble is mass surveillance. In his latest book, Data and Goliath, he explains that mass surveillance is the practice of indiscriminately collecting giant data banks of information on people first, and then deciding what you can do with it. One of the best-known and most controversial examples of this is the practice of the U. S. National Security Agency (NSA) of grabbing telecommunications metadata (basically, who called whom when) covering the entire U. S., which was revealed when Edward Snowden made his stolen NSA files public in 2013. Advocates of the NSA defend the call database by saying the content of the calls is not monitored, only the fact that they were made. But Schneier makes short work of that argument in a few well-chosen examples showing that such metadata can easily reveal extremely private facts about a person: medical conditions or sexual orientation, for example…
Data Privacy, One of These Days
For some odd reason, data privacy maven Bruce Schneier is an optimist. It’s odd because, according to Schneier, there’s practically no such thing as data privacy. Just about everything we do these days is under some form of electronic surveillance, with governments and corporations eager to record and analyze our every action.
But when Schneier holds forth on Friday at Harvard University, as part of the ongoing HUBweek festivities, he’ll reassure his listeners that the cause is not lost, that our online privacy will someday be ensured. Just give it a decade or two…
Read: Data and Goliath
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If you read this book I want you to focus on the pickle. It’s a book about big data, surveillance and freedom vs convenience, but I want you thinking like this book is one of those MASSIVE corned beef sandwiches you get in New York. You know the ones where the slices of bread look like postage stamps under a virtual mountain of charred, savory flesh. The sandwich is the key but the pickle should not ever be forgotten because often times is the last thing you taste. Bruce Schneier’s book on big data is something that EVERY American over the age of, well, reading age, should read. Will they? No. Why? Because for some reason many Americans don’t seem to care about much of this. At least until something happens to them, at which time they turn around and try to explain what happened to an audience who…just…doesn’t…care. I did my own little …
Q&A with Bruce Schneier: What if Your Law Firm Is the Next Ashley Madison?
If the subject is security, chances are Bruce Schneier has an opinion on it, and that opinion has been published somewhere—on his blog, in the New York Times, on the BBC, in the Guardian, in Wired, in one of his 13 books. You get the point. On security, Schneier is among the most well-known and most prolific authorities in the world. Since coming to prominence in the mid-90s through his writings on cryptography, he has testified on the floor of Congress, served on several government committees, coined the term ‘security theater’ in the wake of 9/11, and hooked a global following of some quarter-million readers through his website and …
Data and Goliath by Bruce Schneier (Book Review)
Excerpt
Data and Goliath is a fascinating exploration of this post-Snowden world we live in. It shows how the back-doors that technology companies were forced to implement for the NSA, have actually become weapons for other agencies and hackers to use. We’re taken through the murky world of international espionage, and shown how we have all become collateral damage in this digital arms race. Schneier also explains that even when we try to protect ourselves by leaving Facebook or Gmail, the fact that our friends and relatives still use them means we’re caught up in this global informational dragnet…
Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.