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Interesting paper by Melissa Hathaway: "Connected Choices: How the Internet Is Challenging Sovereign Decisions." Abstract: Modern societies are in the middle of...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | November 6, 2014 at 07:46 AM
Verizon is tracking the Internet use of their phones by surreptitiously modifying URLs. This is a good description of how it works....Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | November 4, 2014 at 07:21 AM
Probably the best IT security book of the year is Adam Shostack's Threat Modeling. The book is an honorable mention finalist for "The Best Books" of the past 12...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | November 3, 2014 at 08:42 AM
Beautiful photo. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered....Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | October 31, 2014 at 05:47 PM
The Intercept has published the complete manuals for Hacking Team's attack software. This follows a detailed report on Hacking Team's products from August. Hacking...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | October 31, 2014 at 09:59 AM
Good essay. Worry about Ebola (or anything) manifests physically as what's known as a fight, flight, or freeze response. Biological systems ramp up or down to focus...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | October 30, 2014 at 07:40 AM
The Food and Drug Administration has released guidelines regarding the security of medical devices. I admit that I have not read it....Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | October 29, 2014 at 07:40 AM
Interesting data: Turning to the crime section of the Chapman Survey on American Fears, the team discovered findings that not only surprised them, but also those...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | October 28, 2014 at 02:53 PM
The latest version of Apple's OS automatically syncs your files to iCloud Drive, even files you choose to store locally. Apple encrypts your data, both in transit...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | October 28, 2014 at 07:59 AM
There's a report that the FBI has identified a second leaker: The case in question involves an Aug. 5 story published by The Intercept, an investigative website...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | October 27, 2014 at 05:32 PM
Here's a physical attack against a credit card verification system. Basically, the attack disrupts the communications between the retail terminal and the system...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | October 27, 2014 at 03:50 PM
Last week, Ron Rivest gave a talk at MIT about Spritz, a new stream cipher by him and Jacob Schuldt. It's basically a redesign of RC4, given current cryptographic...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | October 27, 2014 at 11:55 AM
A pair of Humboldt squids attacked a Greenpeace submarine. There's video. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | October 24, 2014 at 05:37 PM
Interesting paper: Maya Embar, Louis M. McHough IV, and William R. Wesselman, "Printer watermark obfuscation," Proceeding RIIT '14: Proceedings of the 3rd annual...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | October 24, 2014 at 09:57 AM
Susan Landau has a new paper on the NSA's increasing role in commercial cybersecurity. She argues that the NSA is the wrong organization to do this, and we need...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | October 23, 2014 at 09:52 AM
Last week, Adi Shamir gave a presentation at Black Hat Europe on using all-in-one printers to control computers on the other side of air gaps. There's no paper...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | October 22, 2014 at 03:51 PM
Interesting essay on the sorts of things you can learn from anonymized taxi passenger and fare data....Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | October 22, 2014 at 06:54 AM