I just have to quote Bruce Schneier here: Back in November 2020, in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, I gave a virtual talk at the International Symposium on Technology and Society: “The Story of the Internet and How it Broke Bad: A Call for Public-Interest Technologists.” It was something …
Let’s giveaway military secrets to win an argument with strangers whilst playing an online game! For real.
I am not going to say much about this – just, insider threat, and you cannot write a policy for idiots! Be careful who you trust. Leaking Military Secrets on Gaming Discussion Boards – Schneier on Security
Zero-Days are back in the news
Zero-Days – will always be a problem and both Google and Mandiant are reporting rises in such exploitations in 2021. I have reported on this before but the point that comes out in Bruce Schneier’s piece is the numbers these research groups are reporting are detected or declared Zero-Days. What …
Inside a commercial spyware company
Following the story this week that No. 10 Downing Street and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office were infected with the Pegasus spyware, Bruce Schneier put me onto this article about the NSO Group and Pegasus spyware. It provides some amazing background into the way the software has developed and how …
You get the idea that Bruce Schneier does not like cryptocurrencies
There have been a number of attacks on decentralized finance (DeFi) systems recently – and here is another. A hacker abused the smart contract system at Beanstalk Farms, a decentralized finance (DeFi) project and sent themselves $182 million. Clever Cryptocurrency Theft – Schneier on Security Beanstalk cryptocurrency project robbed after …
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