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Bruce Schneier is a security technologist. He is the author of 14 books—including "Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World"—as well as hundreds of articles, essays, and academic papers. His newsletter “Crypto-Gram” and blog “Schneier on Security” are read by over 250,000 people. Schneier is a fellow and lecturer at Harvard Kennedy School a fellow at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society, a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Access Now, and a Special Advisor to IBM Security.

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Cybersecurity

Rediscovering Vulnerabilities

Trey Herr, Bruce Schneier   Fri, Jul 21, 2017, 11:30 AM

Software and computer systems are a standard target of intelligence collection in an age where everything from your phone to your sneakers has been turned into a connected computing device. A modern government intelligence organization must maintain access to some software vulnerabilities into order to target these devices. However, the WannaCry ransomware and NotPetya attacks have called attention to the perennial flipside of this issue—the same vulnerabilities that the U.S. government uses to conduct this targeting can also be exploited by malicious actors if they go unpatched.

Campaign 2016

By November, Russian Hackers Could Target Voting Machines

Bruce Schneier   Thu, Jul 28, 2016, 9:33 AM

Russia was behind the hacks into the Democratic National Committee’s computer network that led to the release of thousands of internal emails just before the party’s convention began, U.S. intelligence agencies have reportedly concluded. This points to the possibility of an even worse problem in November—that our election systems and our voting machines could be vulnerable to a similar attack.