Schneier on Security

JULY 21, 2023

In New York, AI systems equipped with facial recognition technology are being used by businesses to identify shoplifters. China is experimenting with even more powerful forms of automated legal enforcement and targeted surveillance. Ubiquitous AI-powered surveillance in society will be necessary to enable such automated enforcement.

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Joseph Steinberg

MAY 9, 2022

Other parties familiar with Russian Internet usage patterns have also estimated that as many as a third of all Russian Internet users now regularly use VPNs. VPN technologies deliver two major benefits to Russian citizens. They allow Russians to access banned sites, and they help protect users from government surveillance.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 3, 2019

It's an impassioned debate, acrimonious at times, but there are real technologies that can be brought to bear on the problem: key-escrow technologies, code obfuscation technologies, and backdoors with different properties. Public-interest technology isn't new. So does society's underlying security needs.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

This week civil liberties groups in Europe won the right to challenge the UK’s bulk surveillance activities in the The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights. Related: Snowden on unrestrained surveillance. Ubiquitous surveillance. Along with this comes the rising potential for abuse of the technology.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 5, 2019

It's an impassioned debate, acrimonious at times, but there are real technologies that can be brought to bear on the problem: key-escrow technologies, code obfuscation technologies, and backdoors with different properties. Public-interest technology isn't new. So does society's underlying security needs.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 27, 2020

Either way, a singular piece of technology – artificial intelligence (AI) — is destined to profoundly influence which way we go from here. Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society has launched a project to catalog all of the AI ethics declarations made by public and commercial organizations.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

We expect that emergency services will use their technologies to reliably provide us with services, that they will protect the private information we give them, and that the operators of their systems will act responsibly; but residents were failed in this sense. What are the origins of the need for a trust framework?

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 4, 2024

This agent gathers data about the user's actions, such as keystrokes, mouse clicks, application usage, and internet activity. Integration with a customer's existing infrastructure, including other security tools and various cloud technologies , is also crucial. The information is sent to a server for analysis.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The Internet of Things (IoT) has come a long, long way since precocious students at Carnegie Melon University installed micro-switches inside of a Coca-Cola vending machine so they could remotely check on the temperature and availability of their favorite beverages. Related: Companies sustain damage from IoT attacks That was back in 1982.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Two, that the confusion will increase with artificial intelligence. 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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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

It's obvious in the debates on encryption and vulnerability disclosure, but it's also part of the policy discussions about the Internet of Things, cryptocurrencies, artificial intelligence, social media platforms, and pretty much everything else related to IT. Public-interest technology isn't one thing; it's many things.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Facial recognition software (FRS) is a biometric tool that uses artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to scan human facial features to produce a code. The technology isn’t yet perfect, but it has evolved to a point that enterprise use is growing. However, there are a few noteworthy concerns.

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BH Consulting

MAY 25, 2022

Artificial Intelligence Act (expected 2024). Emerging technologies based on artificial intelligence (AI) offer benefits in many areas today for us all. This provides for a risk-based approach in assessing AI systems and technologies. The larger the provider, the greater the number of obligations.

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Joseph Steinberg

JULY 13, 2022

To begin with, it is important to understand that, like most vendors, Apple has touted its security features in the past , and, yet, at least some of the dangers against which the new features are intended to protect exist precisely because sophisticated attackers have proven capable of defeating Apple’s security technologies.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 10, 2022

On Tuesday, the Biden-Harris Administration's Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) unveiled a new Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights , which lists five principles to guide the design, use, and development of intelligence-based automated systems "to protect the American public in the age of artificial intelligence".

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 21, 2022

From facial recognition to surveillance cameras to time trackers or just having a couple guys standing over employees’ shoulders, there are a multitude of ways to make sure employees are staying on-task and being productive. This is a common selling point of the technology, but is there evidence backing up these claims?

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Responsible Cyber

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

This year’s CYBERSEC leitmotif – “Together Against Adversarial Internet” and the mission of the forum will enhance cooperation of like-minded countries to secure digital transformation. Topics in this Stream include global surveillance, digital governance, and decoupling in the digital supply chain.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 26, 2022

So I'm an activist, security researcher or even whistleblower, we recently came across some stuff where there were leaks of personally identifiable information or some sort of previously unknown surveillance of people or employees. But getting back to my earlier point, we're more and more dependent on technology. on society.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 19, 2024

Today, tech’s darling is artificial intelligence. There is a lot we can learn about social media’s unregulated evolution over the past decade that directly applies to AI companies and technologies. In both cases, the solution lies in limits on the technology’s use. #1: AI also has those attributes.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration will drive the next era of growth, wealth, and human flourishing. This isn’t the first time the concept of a frontier has been used as a metaphor for AI, or technology in general.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2023

” Brian Fox , chief technology officer and founder of the software supply chain security firm Sonatype , called the software liability push a landmark moment for the industry. less dependent on foreign suppliers; the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative ; and the National Strategy to Secure 5G.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 29, 2024

For decades, governments and companies have surveilled the conversations, movements, and behavior of the public. And then the internet came along and made that a whole lot easier. But cryptographer and computer security professional Bruce Schneier believes that’s going to change, all because of the advent of artificial intelligence.

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