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Once More Undo the Breach
After the online breach of JPMorgan Chase, cybersecurity awareness is growing in the financial world. But what exactly is cybersecurity (and cybervulnerability)? What can or cannot be done to make sensitive information more secure?
A leading computer security and privacy expert, Bruce Schneier is one of the world’s most recognizable voices on cybersecurity, author of the popular security blog Schneier on Security, board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and CTO of Co3 Systems. His new book, Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Capture Your Data and Control Your World…
Video: Was the Sony Hack an "Act of War"?
Bruce Schneier and former CIA deputy division chief Bruce Klingner spoke with Ari Melber about the Sony hack.
Video: Security Expert: We Saw Sony Attack Coming
The security hack that happened to Sony could happen to anyone. Co3 Systems’ Bruce Schneier explains on the News Hub with Geoff Rogow.
Top 10 Information Security Bloggers in 2014
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Schneier on Security by Bruce Schneier
One of those security blogs you cannot afford to avoid, it focuses on a wide range of subjects, and one of the most common topics in 2014 was the NSA and Edward Snowden affair. I like this blog because Bruce doesn’t publish only his articles: he also comments on various other security news and publications, so you can use it as a kind of a portal to a wider picture of the security world.
One of his most popular posts was on the Heartbleed bug—almost 300 comments there.
Bruce Schneier: Sony Hackers "Completely Owned This Company"
The Sony hack is “every CEO’s worst nightmare” and the leaked data is probably going to send someone to jail, security expert Bruce Schneier says. That, not any threat of violence, is the real power of this hack.
The “Guardians of Peace,” as the group behind the attack has called itself, posted a new dump of emails today, this time from CEO Michael Lynton. The hackers also issued a warning implying that any theater screening the political comedy The Interview, which is about the assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, could be the target of a physical attack as well…
Sony Hackers: It's Not the North Korean Government, nor an Insider, Suggests Security Expert Bruce Schneier
Cryptographer and security expert Bruce Schneier has suggested that the hackers behind the devastating hack and leak of internal data from Sony Pictures is neither the work of the North Korean government, nor of insiders.
"At this point, the attacks seem to be a few hackers and not the North Korean government. (My guess is that it’s not an insider, either). That we live in the world where we aren’t sure if any given cyber attack is the work of a foreign government or a couple of guys should be scary to us all," he wrote in a blog post.
Instead, he added, …
Reboot 25: Industry Pioneers
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According to Bruce Schneier, his career in IT security has been an endeavor he naturally “flowed into.” Schneier, a prominent cryptologist who developed numerous encryption algorithms, including Blowfish and Twofish, has continued to contribute to the industry through his musings and insight on his esteemed blog “Schneier on Security,” and newsletter “Crypto-Gram,” which have garnered a major following in the community. Having gotten his start in cryptography, Schneier says he eventually moved into computer security, network security and security technology as a focus. In his attempt to “understand context” as it pertains to the threat landscape, Schneier also turned to examining the economics, psychology and sociology of security and now he primarily studies and shares his views on the political science of security, he tells …
Video: Schneier on Internet Safety
Bruce Schneier, noted cryptologist and fellow at the Berman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, tells us how to protect our Wi-Fi connection in public and prevent ISPs from tracking our mobile internet use.
Bruce Schneier: There Are Three Big Threats to Cybersecurity—and One Defense
BetaBoston partnered with Silicon Valley Bank, Hack/Reduce, and Terrible Labs on Thursday to host the Cyber Security Symposium. Security experts from Credit Suisse, Threat Stack, Bit9 and others convened for a day-long event, the second niche-focused conference put together by SVB, Atlas Venture’s Cort Johnson and Terrible Labs’ Smith Anderson after the Quantified Self Conference in March.
The event was capped off with a talk by security expert Bruce Schneier, a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard, and the chief technology officer at Co3 Systems…
Video: Bruce Schneier: "Encryption Makes the Internet Safer"
Erin Ade sits down with Bruce Schneier – noted author, cryptologist, and fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Security and Harvard Law School. Bruce gives us his take on President Obama’s recent statement on net neutrality and explains why encryption is vital to personal security and privacy.
Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.