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Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a “security guru” by the Economist. He is the New York Times best-selling author of 14 books — including ”Click Here to Kill Everybody”—as well as hundreds of articles, essays and academic papers.

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Cybersecurity

Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet

Bruce Schneier   Tue, Sep 13, 2016, 10:00 AM

Over the past year or two, someone has been probing the defenses of the companies that run critical pieces of the Internet. These probes take the form of precisely calibrated attacks designed to determine exactly how well these companies can defend themselves, and what would be required to take them down. We don't know who is doing this, but it feels like a large a large nation state. China and Russia would be my first guesses.

Campaign 2016

By November, Russian Hackers Could Target Voting Machines

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

Editor's Note: This essay originally appeared in the Washington Post.

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.

Encryption

Back Doors Won't Solve Comey's Going Dark Problem

Bruce Schneier   Thu, Jul 30, 2015, 1:08 PM

At the Aspen Security Forum last week, FBI Director James Comey (and others) explicitly talked about the "going dark" problem, describing the specific scenario they are concerned about. Maybe others have heard the scenario before, but it was a first for me. It's centers around ISIL operatives abroad and ISIL-inspired terrorists here in the US.