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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. …
Video: False Sense of Security?
Are new enhanced TSA procedures a waste of resources?
Video: Fear of Flying
Bruce Schneier appeared on Countdown with Keith Olbermann to discuss full-body scanners and the TSA.
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…
Video: RSA Conference Europe: Hugh Thompson and Bruce Schneier
Two RSA Conference Europe 2010 Keynote speakers discuss Bruce Schneier’s session on Security, Privacy and the Generation Gap.
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……
Audio: Scott Horton Interviews Bruce Schneier
Bruce Schneier discusses Joe Lieberman’s proposal for an internet “kill switch,” why shutting down the internet during a crisis would cause more harm than good, and how controversial websites like WikiLeaks use data redundancy spread out in different countries to prevent being shut down.
Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.