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Report from the Cambridge Cybercrime Conference

Schneier on Security

Powered by WordPress Hosted by Pressable About Bruce Schneier I am a public-interest technologist , working at the intersection of security, technology, and people. Ive been writing about security issues on my blog since 2004, and in my monthly newsletter since 1998.

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Evaluating the GCHQ Exceptional Access Proposal

Schneier on Security

The most public incident dates from 2004 in Greece. They reduce our reliance on security technologies we know how to do well -- cryptography -- to computer security technologies we are much less good at. But law enforcement has other forensic techniques to collect surveillance data in our highly networked world.

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NEW TECH: CyCognito employs offensive bot network to put companies a step a head of attackers

The Last Watchdog

I first wrote about criminal botnets at USA TODAY in 2004. Over the past couple of years, CyCognito’s botnet has surveilled and fingerprinted some 3.5 And yet, after a couple of decades of piling up layer upon layer of defenses, catastrophic breaches persist — they’re occurring as often as ever, and causing more harm than ever.

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Top VC Firms in Cybersecurity of 2022

eSecurity Planet

As a leading VC, BVP offers budding companies plenty to consider, with a set of roadmaps and tools for today’s technologies and market complexities. Notable cybersecurity exits for the company include AVG Technologies, Cognitive Security, OpenDNS, and Carbon Black. Also read : Addressing Remote Desktop Attacks and Security.

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Tradecraft in the Information Age

Schneier on Security

of human spying in the age of ubiquitous digital surveillance. of human spying in the age of ubiquitous digital surveillance.” Even in London one of the most surveilled places in the Western World it is if you take certain precautions possible to either avoid or avoid the effects of surveillance.