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5 Questions For Cybersecurity Expert Bruce Schneier After the Latest White House Hacking
Democrats didn’t need this: Another cyberattack on an unclassified White House computer network (and unconfirmed reports of Russian involvement) in the closing days of a midterm election in which voter frustration toward President Barack Obama, government dysfunction and national security fears already are hurting their chances of hanging onto control of the Senate.
Chinese hackers reportedly targeted White House staffers’ Gmail accounts in 2011. The next year, Chinese hackers reportedly used spear phishing to break into an unclassified…
Video: Surveillance: The Hidden Ways You’re Tracked
Just how much of your life is watched? Security expert Bruce Schneier points out that it is more than most people think, says Chris Baraniuk.
Do you have secrets? Security expert Bruce Schneier has little patience for those who say they don’t.
When asked about government and corporate surveillance, there are some who shrug their shoulders and say they have nothing to fear because they have nothing to hide. Schneier’s response? “I ask them their salary and they won’t tell me. I ask them about their sexual fantasy world and they won’t tell me. The whole ‘I have nothing to hide’ thing is stupid, that’s a dumb comment,” he says. What’s more, your day-to-day behaviour is monitored in ways you wouldn’t even realise, so these details and many more could be open for all to see – and use against you. And that’s a problem, even if you happen to trust your government to use the data for good…
"A Motivated, Funded, Skilled Hacker Will Always Get In"—Schneier
It's how you respond that's key, says securo guru
Hacking attacks are more or less inevitable, so organisations need to move on from the protection and detection of attacks towards managing their response to breaches so as to minimise harm, according to security guru Bruce Schneier.
Prevention and detection are necessary, but not sufficient, he said. Improving response means that organisations stay on their feet even after they are hit by a serious security breach or hacking attack.
“A sufficiently motivated, funded and skilled hacker will always get in,” Schneier told delegates during a keynote at the IP Expo conference in London. The security guru added that criminals and hackers are now using the sort of tools and techniques that were once the sole purview of intel agencies…
Internet Turned into "Giant Surveillance Platform" by NSA
The US National Security Agency (NSA) has turned the internet into a “giant surveillance platform,” a leading security specialist has said.
Bruce Schneier, who has written extensively on digital security and privacy, told an audience in Dublin tonight that the revelations by whistleblower Edward Snowden of large-scale surveillance by the NSA showed that we were living in a “golden age of surveillance.”
In a lecture for the human rights group Front Line Defenders, Mr. Schneier said the NSA’s role changed completely after the 9/11 attacks, when US intelligence agencies were given “an impossible mission: never again.” “The only way to ensure something doesn’t happen is to know everything that is happening,” he said…
Liars & Outliers—an Enjoyable & Thoughtful Read
In February of 2012 the venerable Bruce Schneier published yet another book, Liars & Outliers. It was a book that I really wanted to read, but at the time was lacking both funds and the time.
Some months later he posted an offer to his blog: buy the book cheap if you promise to post a review. Impulsively, I jumped on it. Save some money, get a great book, and it comes with a little pressure to read it quickly and get a review up; that sounded like just the deal I needed!
I’m embarrassed to say that was over two years ago. While I had started reading the book immediately, it was not until last month that I set a firm goal to read it and finally completed the book. I regret not having done that earlier because …
A Look Back at ‘The State of Incident Response’ by Bruce Schneier
In my continuing series of keynote recaps, I will be covering Bruce Schneier’s keynote at Black Hat USA 2014—yes, it can be called a keynote even though it is more of a briefing. By the way, Black Hat: Next time, please give him appropriate space; people were lining up outside the room waiting to get in because of the lack of space.
I will be sharing what I learned from his speech in my own words with selected graphics. Schneier’s “The State of Incident Response” talk is available online, but if you don’t have an hour to watch that, read this as a recap. Hopefully, it will help you take some action or remind you of your New Year’s resolution to improve security. Finally, I hope this serves as a good resource for those starting in the field who are too focused on their day-to-day cyberdefense role to step back and look at the bigger picture…
Audio: Breaking up the NSA
Almost a year and a half after the Snowden revelations, it’s business as usual for America’s giant global eavesdropping and spying organisation: the NSA, the National Security Agency.
As revelations continue to unfold, legislative attempts to rein in the NSA’s powers appear to be stalling. But, Harvard University security analyst Bruce Schneier says the situation is unacceptable.
In the future, argues Schneier, people will look back at the way we ignore privacy today and ask “how could we be that immoral?” He’s put forward his own plan for breaking -up the NSA, and in so doing, bringing its activities under greater civilian control…
BlackHat 2014: Incident Response Best Practice & Automation Key to Success—Bruce Schneier
Network breaches are inevitable. It’s what happens next that really matters, said renowned cryptographic expert Bruce Schneier during the Black Hat security conference.
If there is something the organization has the attacker wants, the attacker will figure out a way to get in. Regardless of how much the organization invests in its defenses, attackers need to find that one weak spot to succeed. This is why incident response—being able to detect an incident had occurred, and then being able to respond effectively to remediate the incident—is so critical…
Carry On: Sound Advice from Schneier on Security (Review)
Bruce Schneier has been called an information security rock star. If that’s the case, then Carry On: Sound Advice from Schneier on Security is his greatest hits collection 2008-2013.
The roughly 175 essays in the book represent a collection of articles Schneier wrote for this Crypto-Gram newsletter, his blog and other blogs, magazines, newspapers and other periodicals.
Some of the articles, such as the 2008 piece “Chinese Cyberattacks: Myth or Menace?” are clearly dated. A number of the other articles are somewhat redundant in that they were written on the same topic for different audiences…
Incident Response: Beyond the Breach
Bruce Schneier on Expanding the Use of Automated Tools
When the organizers of the just-concluded Black Hat USA conference wanted to explore incident response, they turned to Bruce Schneier, the cryptographer, author, blogger and cybersecurity expert, to make a presentation. Until recently, however, Schneier’s name wouldn’t be on most people’s list of incident response experts.
Schneier’s reputation, after all, was built on his keen observations of the influence of IT security on society and vice versa, as well as bringing to light the previously unknown, such as the National Security Agency’s tampering with cryptography guidance from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (see …
Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.