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For Safety’s Sake, We Must Slow Innovation in Internet-Connected Things
That’s the view of security expert Bruce Schneier, who fears lives will be lost in a cyber disaster unless governments act swiftly.
Smart gadgets are everywhere. The chances are you have them in your workplace, in your home, and perhaps on your wrist. According to an estimate from research firm Gartner, there will be over 11 billion internet-connected devices (excluding smartphones and computers) in circulation worldwide this year, almost double the number just a couple of years ago.
Many billions more will come online soon. Their connectivity is what makes them so useful, but it’s also a cybersecurity nightmare. Hackers have already shown they can compromise everything …
Hackers Used a Fish Tank to Break into a Vegas Casino. We’re All in Trouble.
Bruce Schneier’s new book, Click Here to Kill Everybody, explains the security risks of a new world of household devices connected to the Internet. I asked him what the risks are, why they are so serious and what their consequences are for politics.
HF: Technology has created a hyper-connected world. How does this lead to vulnerabilities?
BS: As we connect more things to the Internet, they can affect each other. This is generally a goodness, but it leads to vulnerabilities in unexpected ways. First, vulnerabilities in one thing can affect another thing. We saw this last year when a major Vegas casino’s high-roller database was hacked through—and I am not making this up—its Internet-connected fish tank…
Newsmaker Interview: Bruce Schneier on "Going Dark" and the Crypto Arms Race
Bruce Schneier is a computer security expert who, for decades, has been a leading voice for cryptography and all things security. In this question-and-answer formatted interview, Schneier describes the disjunction of today’s abundance of encryption tools and a dearth of personal security. Schneier also touches on some of the dangers associated with “middle ground” compromises in encryption to placate law enforcement.
TP: What does the term “going dark” mean to you and is there a middle ground where law enforcement and cryptographers can meet?…
Bruce Schneier on Future Digital Threats
Bruce Schneier is without question one of the leading computer security professionals alive today. A true renaissance man when it comes to IT security, he has been involved in the creation of a host of cryptographic algorithms (for example, Blowfish, Twofish, and Threefish); has written several books on cryptography and security topics, the most recent of which is Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World (W.W. Norton & Company, 2016); has extensive academic publications; is a prolific writer for magazines, newspapers, and his own blog (…
An Interview with Bruce Schneier on the Internet of Things, Global Surveillance, and Cybersecurity
Bruce Schneier is a world-renowned cryptographer and security technologist whom the Economist has dubbed an “internet-security guru.” Schneier has authored a dozen books since 1993, with his next book—Click Here to Kill Everybody: Peril and Promise in a Hyper-Connected World—due for release in September 2018, and set to tackle the burgeoning trends of cybercrime, corporate surveillance, and how to mitigate the catastrophic risks from unsecured devices.
Earlier this year, Schneier wrote a chilling article in New York Magazine detailing the pressing dangers of unsecured IoT devices and, more recently, …
On Internet Privacy, Be Very Afraid
‘Surveillance Is the Business Model of the Internet,’ Berkman and Belfer Fellow Says
In the internet era, consumers seem increasingly resigned to giving up fundamental aspects of their privacy for convenience in using their phones and computers, and have grudgingly accepted that being monitored by corporations and even governments is just a fact of modern life.
In fact, internet users in the United States have fewer privacy protections than those in other countries. In April, Congress voted to allow internet service providers to collect and sell their customers’ browsing data. By contrast, the European Union hit Google this summer with a $2.7 billion antitrust fine…
"Surveillance Is the Business Model of the Internet"
Under surveillance capitalism, we’ve lost control of our devices and our data – but there is a way back. Interview with Bruce Schneier by Agne Pix.
Agne Pix (AP): Does technology protect our privacy on the internet or is it a threat?
Bruce Schneier (BS): There are a lot of technologies that help preserve privacy and keep us and our data secure, like for example encryption. Technology can also remove privacy: you may think of cameras or listening devices and insecure internet connections. We are living in a world where we often interact with computers. They produce data about these interactions, which is data about ourselves and that is collected by corporations. Surveillance is the business model of the internet. So right now a lot of the technology that we use is harmful to our security and privacy…
"Surveillance Shouldn’t Be the Business Model of the Internet. We Can Change It"
Dubbed a ‘security guru’ by The Economist, Bruce Schneier has authored several books, including NYT bestseller Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World, as well as hundreds of articles and academic papers. In 2013, the American security technologist was invited to brief a US Congress group about the documents revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden, and to explain ‘what the NSA (National Security Agency) was doing’. In an email interview to Kim Arora , he spoke about the recent Wannacry ransomware attack, cybersecurity, and threats to privacy. …
Video: Cybersecurity Talk with Bruce Schneier: How to Start Your Career in Cybersecurity?
Watch the Video on CQUREAcademy.com
In today’s episode, together with Bruce Schneier, we are talking about how to start and skyrocket your career in cybersecurity.
Paula: I’m here with Bruce Schneier. The most prominent person in security. Thank you so much for being with me. I have a couple of questions.
Where to expect hacks?
You have delivered a presentation about IoT (Internet of things). IoT hacks it’a not a very surprising thing for IT security professionals like hotels and different devices but everybody’s wondering: what’s coming next?…
Cybersecurity Expert on Latest Wikileaks: Nothing to See Here
Does latest data dump mean people should throw out their smartphones?
Metro spoke to cybersecurity expert Bruce Schneier about the latest revelations from Wikileaks about U.S. government spying and what they mean to regular people. The leaked documents, which appear to be from the Central Intelligence Agency, describes software tools that the agency uses to hack into cellphones, computers and internet-connected televisions.
Metro: Do these revelations from Wikileaks surprise you at all?
Schneier: Not in the least. What’s the news here? Computers are hackable, this isn’t news. It doesn’t change a thing.
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Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.