News in the Category "Type"
Page 40 of 97
Review: Data and Goliath by Bruce Schneier
Bruce Schneier, Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Capture Your Data and Control Your World. New York, NY: W.W. Norton., 2015. Pp. 400. £ 17.99, ISBN: 978-0-393-24481-6.
If you’re not familiar with the Information Security community in the IT industry, it’s worth knowing that Bruce Schneier has earned the reputation of a prophet, sage and action hero combined. As a renowned cryptologist and technologist, Schneier has been a leading critic of the US government’s attempts to limit the global spread of encryption and recently of the NSA’s ‘bulk collection’ program of communication records of US citizens, following the disclosures by Edward Snowden in 2013. …
Surveillance, Bulk Data Collection and Intelligence: an Interview with Bruce Schneier
Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist and the author of 13 books—including ‘Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World’—as well as hundreds of articles, essays, and academic papers. Schneier is a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, a program fellow at the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute, a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an Advisory Board Member of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, and the Chief Technology Officer at …
We Stand on the Brink of Global Cyber War, Warns Encryption Guru
Schneier: Sony hack "high skill, high focused"
We are in the early years of a cyber war arms race, security guru Bruce Schneier warned delegates at the Infosecurity Europe exhibition on Wednesday.
Schneier, CTO of Resilient Systems, said the much publicised Stuxnet attacks on Iran by the US and Israel in 2010, Iran’s attack on Saudi Aramco, China’s apparent role in hacking GitHub, and the North Korean assault on Sony Pictures last year are all examples of the phenomenon.
“These nations are building up for cyber war and now we’re all in the blast radius,” he warned, while speaking in London…
We Are in Early Years of International Cyber War Arms Race, Says Security Expert Bruce Schneier
Countries are not attacking each other but striking at the IT infrastructure of enterprises in rival states, says security pundit Bruce Schneier
Cyber attacks—such as that on Sony Pictures in 2014—suggest the world is in the early stages of a cyber war arms race.
So said Bruce Schneier, chief technology officer of Resilient Systems: “We are in the early years of a cyber war arms race.
“There is a lot of nation state rhetoric, and we are seeing a lot of nation state attacks against non nation states,” he told Infosecurity Europe 2015 in London.
Schneier cited North Korea’s attack on Sony Pictures, China’s attack on Github and Iran’s attack on Saudi Aramco as examples.
“There is a lot of this back and forth, where countries are not attacking each other, but attacking companies in those countries—and I think we are going to see more of that,” he said…
Video: Expert: TSA Airport Security Is "A Lot of Theater"
The “smart bad guys” figure out how to get around TSA, says security technologist and Harvard Law School fellow Bruce Schneier.
EPIC Lifetime Achievement Award
Bruce Schneier received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Electronic Privacy Information Center’s Champions of Freedom Event.
Bruce Schneier on Privacy and the Data Free-for-All
Over the past two decades, few voices have shouted louder from the rooftops about global cybersecurity and digital privacy concerns than Bruce Schneier. He’s the CTO of Resilient Systems, a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and has authored 14 books—his latest, Data and Goliath, was published in March.
As Facebook and Google have infiltrated our every waking moment, Schneier warns that these data giants, if left unchecked, could compromise the very principles of a democratic society. Web companies collect metrics like age, gender and social interests (to serve up better advertisements), while cellular networks track everyone’s geolocation with homing devices we call smartphones. As we’ve seen, smartphones are also powerful proxy surveillance tools for nosy governments…
Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World, by Bruce Schneier (Review)
Paul Bernal clicks with a maverick thinker who shows how business and governments are building a global surveillance network and how we can fight back
Investigating surveillance—whether corporate or governmental—can be a demoralizing process. Those performing that surveillance, from the US’ National Security Agency and the UK’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) to Google and Facebook, are giants so overwhelmingly powerful that it seems too daunting to even contemplate taking them on. Their agendas may be even more terrifying: as Bruce Schneier observes, “The endgame of this isn’t pretty: it’s a global surveillance network where all countries collude to surveil everyone on the entire planet.” What’s more, he adds, the governments and the corporations are both in the same game: “It’s a powerful feedback loop: the business model supports the government effort, and the government effort justifies the business model.”…
Audio: Spy-wear?
Listen to the Audio on BBC.co.uk
Dr Chris Brauer from Goldsmiths, University of London, on how big brands want to sell us things via wearable devices. Bruce Schneier, security and privacy expert and author of the book “Data and Goliath”, warns of the threat of companies and governments misusing data about us. Emily Bell, from the Tow Centre for Digital Journalism, on Verizon’s buyout of AOL, and Facebook’s instant articles. And Zoe Kleinman spends a night alone in a house full of robots. Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with Fiona Graham and Dave Lee from the BBC Online tech desk…
Audio: Stuxnet, Sexism, CEOs and Surveillance
Listen to the Audio on NewAmerica.org
New America’s Peter Singer and Passcode’s Sara Sorcher chat with Bruce Schneier, prolific author and chief technology officer at Resilient Systems, about the challenges of publicly blaming countries for cyberattacks—and whose job it should be to defend private companies against sophisticated nation-state attacks. They also hear from Nate Fick, the CEO of Endgame, a venture-backed security intelligence software company, about how he’s leveraging cybersecurity solutions once produced just for the government into the private sector…
Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.