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America's Necessary Response to Moscow's Airport Attack: Nothing
As Russia reels in the aftermath of a brutal terror attack yielding an estimated 35 casualties at Domodedovo Airport—Moscow’s busiest—much of the awe and reaction toward this specific incident is focused on the location: not just an airport, but a restaurant at an airport, outside of the baggage claim, before anyone reaches a security checkpoint. Especially as the terrorists in question are initially being reported as Arab, governments (and specifically: ours) beginning to react on their own turfs outside of Russia is a given. Yet, while responses by Western Governments to terror attacks …
Bruce Schneier: We Need "Cyberwar Hotlines" to Match Nuclear Hotlines
Security expert Bruce Schneier has called for governments to establish ‘hotlines’ between their cyber commands, much like the those between nuclear commands, to help them battle against cyber attacks.
Cyber security is high on the national agenda, and is regarded as a top threat to the UK’s security. It is also top a concern for other nations around the world. Last month, the EU announced plans to cybercrime centre by 2013, and it agreed with the US to set up a working group on cybersecurity. Meanwhile, NATO also adopted its Strategic Concept Charter, which outlines plans to develop new capabilities to combat cyber attacks on military networks…
Cryptography Engineering: Design Principles and Practical Applications (Review)
Cryptography Engineering: Design Principles and Practical Applications. By Niels Ferguson et al; published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., www.wiley.com; 384 pages; $55.
Good cryptography can ensure that your data is readable only to authorized parties. The danger of bad cryptography is a false sense of data security. The line between the two is exceptionally thin, and the difference between the two is spelled out in great detail in this text.
The first edition of coauthor Bruce Schneier’s Applied Cryptography came out in 1994. What was revolutionary then, and launched a new generation of security mavens, is now obsolete in many parts. …
Security and Terrorism Expert Bruce Schneier: TSA Scans "Won't Catch Anybody"
Since 9/11, cryptology expert and security consultant Bruce Schneier has been one of the most pointed critics of the government’s anti-terrorism security programs. In his 2003 book “Beyond Fear,” he coined the phrase “security theater” to refer to measures which are undertaken not because they will be effective at thwarting attacks, but because the agencies carrying them out need to appear to be doing something useful. We spoke to Schneier about the recent controversy involving the Transport Security Agency’s use of invasive scanners and full-body pat-downs…
Special Report: Bruce Schneier on the Future of IT Security
A security guru has debunked cyber war and cyber terrorism myths.
The threats of cyber war and cyber terrorism have been grossly exaggerated and are hindering a real understanding of risks on the internet, one of the world’s leading information security experts has said. Bruce Schneier, the author and security technologist who is also chief security technology officer with BT, was speaking in Dublin yesterday at an event held by the Irish Institute for European Affairs (IIEA).
Schneier referred to the denial of service attack in Latvia in 2007, which brought down several government services for a time, and said it was most likely the first such cyber war attack against a state. However, he pointed out that just one person was convicted—an ethnic Russian living in Latvia who was apparently angered by the authorities’ decision to remove some statues dating from the Communist era…
Bruce Schneier Writes Down Passwords. So Can You
After the conference is over I get some time to talk to security guru Bruce Schneier.
His talk on security was not, what you might imagine, about HTTPS and secure sockets, but rather a much more philosophical talk on the psychology of security. The point Mr. Schneier was making was that there is a difference between actually being secure, and the feeling of secure.
You can be secure when you don’t feel as if you are. And conversely there are times when you think you are secure, but actually you are not—for example the most dangerous part of any holiday journey is the drive to the airport, not the flight in the plane…
Book: Secrets & Lies (Review)
Everyone knows Bruce Schneier (at least everyone reading my blog); to begin with, this is not a technical book about cryptography, it’s a book that wants to give almost the exact opposite message, that is that cryptography by itself cannot do much since security is comprised by numerous factors. This book was a present of a friend of mine and just for your information, this review/overview was written by reading it just once despite B. Schneier’s suggestion of reading it at least twice in order to understand the message “between the lines”. In any case, here it is……
CSO Compass Award: Bruce Schneier
As an author of books on security, the influential Crypto-Gram newsletter and the blog Schneier on Security (www.schneier.com), as well as a frequent guest on TV and radio, Bruce Schneier has become something of a celebrity in the world of security: He may be the only CSO whose likeness is used to sell T-shirts. Still, the most rewarding aspect of his career, as he conveyed in this interview conducted by e-mail, is that he believes he is having an impact on people’s thinking about security.
CSO: What are three fail-proof principles of security leadership?…
Security Expert: Data Is the Pollution of the Information Age
During a panel discussion at the recent Worldwide Cybersecurity Summit in Dallas that otherwise was as dry as a highway in the Sahara, security guru Bruce Schneier made a provocative argument.
He contended that just as pollution was the unfortunate byproduct of the Industrial Revolution, data is the waste product of the digital revolution.
And just like pollution, all the data we generate during our lives never degrades.
He noted that almost every transaction and interaction now generates data.
Whether it’s buying a product with a debit card when we used to pay with cash, or communicating via text message or e-mail when we used to just make a phone call, activities that previously left no trace now generate a significant digital trail…
What Faisal Shahzad could learn from "The Wire"
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In the wake of Shahzad’s arrest, the dangers of disposable phones are likely to be scrutinized once again—and there are sure to be renewed calls for their closer regulation. We called Bruce Schneier, security technologist, chief security technology officer at British Telecom, and author of “Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World,” to find out how dangerous they really are.
How dangerous are these disposable cellphones from a national security perspective?
I think it’s a trivial danger. There are a lot of people who will say these anonymous cellphones are bad, that we’re all going to die. But stealing a cellphone is easy. It’s easy to get a cellphone in somebody else’s name. Cellphone hijacking is easy. I actually don’t believe that disposable cellphones are a problem—it’s a huge red herring…
Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.