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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…
Video: Bruce Schneier on Security for Cloud Computing
In part one of this interview with Bruce Schneier, he discusses the impending shift in how security will be delivered. Schneier expects security to be embedded in Web-based services and sold directly to service providers, rather than to enterprises and end users. This is a radical transformation for the security industry that security professionals must prepare for. Schneier also discusses consumerization and how traditional security technologies and services must adjust as more untrusted devices connect to trusted networks.
Video: Bruce Schneier on Cryptography and Government Information Security
Author and leading security expert Bruce Schneier digs into the topics of the current state of cryptography and whether or not companies should care about the U.S. government’s release of portions of the CNCI.
Audio: Virtually Speaking with Jay Ackroyd
Bruce Schneier and James Fallows of The Atlantic appeared on Virtually Speaking with Jay Ackroyd.
Review of the Book Beyond Fear
1. Summary of the review
Bruce Schneier’s Beyond Fear is a book about security in general. In contrast to many other books, Schneier explains how security works in the most general case, starting from protecting your diary of your sister to protecting the nation from global terrorism. Schneier’s book does not focus on cryptography or network security, instead it uses examples of systems everyone is expected to be familiar with. Such examples include home burglar systems, airport security or hotel room security.
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RSA 2010: Q&A with Bruce Schneier
Schneier on security, SSL and squid
V3.co.uk managed to get five minutes with security legend Bruce Schneier at RSA 2010 in San Francisco to get his views on the current threat landscape.
Yesterday we saw a presentation saying that anti-virus systems are failing 10-30 per cent of the time. What’s your take on that?
I don’t believe that, otherwise I’d be infected with lots of malware. If it is, I’m not paying attention. It’s true that signature-based anti-virus is reaching the end of its useful life, but I’m not seeing data that supports that position.
We’ve also seen Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) come under attack, and some experts are saying it is useless. Do you agree?…
Security Guru Bruce Schneier '88 Demystifies Technology
“Security affects every aspect of people’s lives,” says world renowed security expert and critic Bruce Schneier, CAS/MS ’88. “It helps people make better personal, corporate, and national decisions.”
A regular columnist for the Wall Street Journal and the Guardian newspaper in the UK, Schneier calls himself “an explainer.” Through his best-selling books, Applied Cryptography, Secrets and Lies, and Beyond Fear, and countless mainstream and security media articles and speaking engagements, he explains difficult topic matter to regular folks. His reputation as a leading cryptographer even got him mentioned in Dan Brown’s mega-bestseller, …
Security Superstars 2010: Visionaries
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Schneier is the official rock star of the security industry with deep knowledge of crytopgraphy and privacy. He is the author of Applied Cryptography; Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World; and Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World. Schneier is also a frequent speaker at security events as well as the author of the BlowFish and TwoFish algorithms.
Bruce Schneier: Geek of the Week
If one were to close one’s eyes and imagine a BT Executive, one would never conjure up Bruce Schneier. He is one of the greatest experts in cryptography, and a well-known mathematician. He even got a brief mention in the book The Da Vinci Code. He also remains an outspoken and articulate critic of the way that security is actually implemented in applications, as Richard Morris found out when we dispatched him to interview him.
Once a sleepy IT backwater, Identity Management has been thrust into the spotlight over the past few years. More and more companies, alarmed by the escalating incidence of identity theft, have come to understand the importance of protecting the integrity of digital information held about individuals and the grave risks they run if they neglect to do it…
Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.