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Security and Human Behavior (SHB) 2019
From Schneier on Security

Security and Human Behavior (SHB) 2019

Today is the second day of the twelfth Workshop on Security and Human Behavior, which I am hosting at Harvard University. SHB is a small, annual, invitational workshop...

Chinese Military Wants to Develop Custom OS
From Schneier on Security

Chinese Military Wants to Develop Custom OS

Citing security concerns, the Chinese military wants to replace Windows with its own custom operating system: Thanks to the Snowden, Shadow Brokers, and Vault7...

Lessons Learned Trying to Secure Congressional Campaigns
From Schneier on Security

Lessons Learned Trying to Secure Congressional Campaigns

Really interesting first-hand experience from Maciej Cegłowski....

The Cost of Cybercrime
From Schneier on Security

The Cost of Cybercrime

Really interesting paper calculating the worldwide cost of cybercrime: Abstract: In 2012 we presented the first systematic study of the costs of cybercrime. In...

The Importance of Protecting Cybersecurity Whistleblowers
From Schneier on Security

The Importance of Protecting Cybersecurity Whistleblowers

Interesting essay arguing that we need better legislation to protect cybersecurity whistleblowers. Congress should act to protect cybersecurity whistleblowers because...

The Human Cost of Cyberattacks
From Schneier on Security

The Human Cost of Cyberattacks

The International Committee of the Red Cross has just published a report: "The Potential Human Cost of Cyber-Operations." It's the result of an "ICRC Expert Meeting"...

Friday Squid Blogging: Hundred-Million-Year-Old Squid Relative Found in Amber
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Hundred-Million-Year-Old Squid Relative Found in Amber

This is a really interesting find. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog...

Fraudulent Academic Papers
From Schneier on Security

Fraudulent Academic Papers

The term "fake news" has lost much of its meaning, but it describes a real and dangerous Internet trend. Because it's hard for many people to differentiate a real...

Alex Stamos on Content Moderation and Security
From Schneier on Security

Alex Stamos on Content Moderation and Security

Really interesting talk by former Facebook CISO Alex Stamos about the problems inherent in content moderation by social media platforms. Well worth watching....

First American Financial Corp. Data Records Leak
From Schneier on Security

First American Financial Corp. Data Records Leak

Krebs on Security is reporting a massive data leak by the real estate title insurance company First American Financial Corp. "The title insurance agency collects...

Friday Squid Blogging: More Materials Science from Squid Skin
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: More Materials Science from Squid Skin

Article: "How a Squid's Color-Changing Skin Inspired a New Material That Can Trap or Release Heat." As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the...

NSA Hawaii
From Schneier on Security

NSA Hawaii

Recently I've heard Edward Snowden talk about his working at the NSA in Hawaii as being "under a pineapple field." CBS News recently ran a segment on that NSA listening...

Germany Talking about Banning End-to-End Encryption
From Schneier on Security

Germany Talking about Banning End-to-End Encryption

Der Spiegel is reporting that the German Ministry for Internal Affairs is planning to require all Internet message services to provide plaintext messages on demand...

German SG-41 Encryption Machine Up for Auction
From Schneier on Security

German SG-41 Encryption Machine Up for Auction

A German auction house is selling an SG-41. It looks beautiful. Starting price is 75,000 euros. My guess is that it will sell for around 100K euros....

Thangrycat: A Serious Cisco Vulnerability
From Schneier on Security

Thangrycat: A Serious Cisco Vulnerability

Summary: Thangrycat is caused by a series of hardware design flaws within Cisco's Trust Anchor module. First commercially introduced in 2013, Cisco Trust Anchor...

Visiting the NSA
From Schneier on Security

Visiting the NSA

Yesterday, I visited the NSA. It was Cyber Command's birthday, but that's not why I was there. I visited as part of the Berklett Cybersecurity Project, run out...

Fingerprinting iPhones
From Schneier on Security

Fingerprinting iPhones

This clever attack allows someone to uniquely identify a phone when you visit a website, based on data from the accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer sensors...

How Technology and Politics Are Changing Spycraft
From Schneier on Security

How Technology and Politics Are Changing Spycraft

Interesting article about how traditional nation-based spycraft is changing. Basically, the Internet makes it increasingly possible to generate a good cover story...

The Concept of "Return on Data"
From Schneier on Security

The Concept of "Return on Data"

This law review article by Noam Kolt, titled "Return on Data," proposes an interesting new way of thinking of privacy law. Abstract: Consumers routinely supply...

Friday Squid Blogging: On Squid Intelligence
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: On Squid Intelligence

Two links. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here...
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