Schneier on Security

JULY 24, 2019

Yesterday, Attorney General William Barr gave a major speech on encryption policy -- what is commonly known as "going dark." But, in the world of cybersecurity, we do not deal in absolute guarantees but in relative risks. Moreover, in 2012 every CALEA-enabled switch sold to the Defense Department had security vulnerabilities. (I

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 14, 2019

Last month, Attorney General William Barr gave a major speech on encryption policy­what is commonly known as "going dark." But, in the world of cybersecurity, we do not deal in absolute guarantees but in relative risks. Moreover, in 2012 every CALEA-enabled switch sold to the Defense Department had security vulnerabilities. (I

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

In 2013 and 2014, I wrote extensively about new revelations regarding NSA surveillance based on the documents provided by Edward Snowden. This was before David Miranda, Greenwald’s partner, was detained at Heathrow airport by the UK authorities; but even without that, I knew there was a risk. Probably not. Very probably.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2020

According to Stone, the CVE-2019-2215 vulnerability was being used or sold by the controversial surveillance firm NSO Group , it was exploited by its surveillance software Pegasus. SideWinder, a group that has been active since 2012, is a known threat and has reportedly targeted military entities’ Windows machines.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The mission of the service is to provide our risk management program with a robust dataset for policy-making and incident handling. I also work with my team on leading risk assessments, authoring position papers, security architecture evaluations, and associated risk discovery activities. I was obsessed with encryption.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 1, 2021

A recently disclosed FBI training document shows how much access to the content of encrypted messages from secure messaging services US law enforcement can gain and what they can learn about your usage of the apps. All of them are messaging apps that promise end-to-end encryption for their users.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 28, 2020

And since this Russian operation isn’t at all targeted, the entire world is at risk — and not just from Russia. In the interests of surveillance, the NSA has pushed for an insecure cell phone encryption standard and a backdoor in random number generators (important for secure encryption).

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