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On Chinese "Spy Trains"

Schneier on Security

Meanwhile, the chairman of China's technology giant Huawei has pointed to NSA spying disclosed by Edward Snowden as a reason to mistrust US technology companies. Even so, these examples illustrate an important point: there's no escaping the technology of inevitable surveillance. China denied having done so , of course.

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Snowden Ten Years Later

Schneier on Security

In 2013 and 2014, I wrote extensively about new revelations regarding NSA surveillance based on the documents provided by Edward Snowden. Could agents take control of my computer over the Internet if they wanted to? Many have written about how being under constant surveillance changes a person. Very probably. Definitely.

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Why ForAllSecure is a 2021 SC Awards Best Enterprise Security Solution Finalist

ForAllSecure

In this post, I will expand on why ForAllSecure’s Mayhem for Code is being recognized as a finalist in the Best Enterprise Security Solution and how a next-generation fuzz testing technology -- a decade in the making -- came to be a contender alongside names such as Checkmarx, Crowdstrike, Cybereason, and Darktrace.

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Why ForAllSecure is a 2021 SC Awards Best Enterprise Security Solution Finalist

ForAllSecure

In this post, I will expand on why ForAllSecure’s Mayhem for Code is being recognized as a finalist in the Best Enterprise Security Solution and how a next-generation fuzz testing technology -- a decade in the making -- came to be a contender alongside names such as Checkmarx, Crowdstrike, Cybereason, and Darktrace.

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AI and Trust

Schneier on Security

I wrote about this in 2012 in a book called Liars and Outliers. I wrote about four systems for enabling trust: our innate morals, concern about our reputations, the laws we live under, and security technologies that constrain our behavior. Laws and security technologies are systems of trust that force us to act trustworthy.

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LLMs and Phishing

Schneier on Security

In 2012, researcher Cormac Herley offered an answer : It weeded out all but the most gullible. And new mechanisms, from ChatGPT plugins to LangChain , will enable composition of AI with thousands of API-based cloud services and open source tools, allowing LLMs to interact with the internet as humans do.

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CISSPs from Around the Globe: An Interview with James Wright

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Air Force veteran and graduate of the University of Denver holding a Master of Science degree in Information Systems Security and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Information Technology. Securing the technology and creation platforms at our company is rewarding. Information assurance is vital in today's technological world.