Schneier
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Schneier warns of marketers and dancing pigs
Insight newsmaker Security guru Bruce Schneier pokes fun at U.S. National Cyber Security Month and says when it comes to privacy, marketers are scarier than governments or criminals.
Tags: Data security, PC security, Facebook, Computer, Security, NSA, Schneier, Hard Drive Encryption, Information Broker, Security Consideration
Experts: Don't clamp down on social media
News Iranian news leaking out via Twitter shows that people will get around communication roadblocks, and experts say businesses can learn lessons from this.
Tags: Web 2.0, Security implementation/standards, Business security, Twitter, Security, Mobile, Howard Schmidt, Iran, Social Media, Mobile Device
Schneier: Cyber-extortion on the rise
News The security expert has warned of an increase in cyber-extortion, but added there is no need for panic about attacks on critical national infrastructures.
Tags: Security
Leaking crypto keys from mobile devices
News Attackers could steal keys used for encryption and authentication on mobile devices by analyzing electromagnetic signals and radio frequency emissions, researcher says.
Tags: Mobile, Authentication and encryption, Phone, cable box, Key, bank, mobile, Authentication and encryption, Attack, Mobile Device
Schneier: Security neglected in economic gloom
News While it may seem logical to downgrade security, Bruce Schneier argues that security should be maintained or boosted, as systems become more business critical in a recession.
Tags: Security Management, Network security, Data security, PC security, IT budgeting, Budgeting/cost control, Security, British Telecommunications, IT Security, Information Security
Conficker postmortem: Hype distracted but threat is real
News Experts say media hype of Conficker worm may have distracted people from the real but less sexy threat--the ongoing, everyday risks on the Internet.
Tags: Viruses and worms, Security, Worm, Conficker Working Group, removable storage, computer, virus, network, researcher, Internet
Security expert: 'We are losing the battle'
News Cryptographer Bruce Schneier today reiterated his managed security services gospel in a talk here on the opening day of the RSA Security Conference.
Cyberterror 'overhyped,' security guru says
News Officials claiming terrorists pose serious danger to computer networks direct attention away from common criminals, expert says.
Tags: Security, Network security, Security Management
Moore's Law is the enemy of privacy
News Security guru Bruce Schneier claims processing power has increased to such a degree that data has become a "pollutant".
Schneier: 'Zero benefit' from US border biometrics
News The Department of Homeland Security has disputed Bruce Schneier's claim that the U.S.-Visit program has had no impact on reducing criminal and terrorist threats.
Tags: Security, Biometrics, U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, British Telecommunications, Officer, Program, RSA Security Inc., undersecretary, Iraq, blog
Schneier research team cracks TrueCrypt
News Security expert Bruce Schneier says standard software such as Vista interferes with deniable file systems, designed to hide data on users' systems.
Tags: Windows Vista, Security, Authentication and encryption, Data, Google Inc., Deniable File System, File System, Password, operating system, sensitive information
Expert: Better ID checks won't beat fraud
News Plans to supplement passwords with security devices won't solve the problems plaguing Web businesses, warns a crypto expert.
Tags: Authentication and encryption
Nike+iPod raises RFID privacy concerns
News Security expert Bruce Schneier calls the risk of tracking someone via the RFID chip in the shoe-iPod technology "very scary".
Report: Net users picking safer passwords
News Average MySpace password has eight characters, expert says. But no password is secure if you fall for a phishing scam.
Tags: PC security, Data security, Security
Vendors, not developers, to blame for poor code
News An ex-White House security expert drew protests when he argued that computer programmers were responsible for security problems.
Tags: Software engineering/development
