Post-BT crypto guru Schneier gets new gig at startup

l33tdawg — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 08:34:48 +0000

Post-BT crypto guru Schneier gets new gig at startup

posted onJanuary 7, 2014

by l33tdawg

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Famed cryptographer and security guru Bruce Schneier has moved on from his seven years at BT. Just one month later, he has accepted the role of CTO at incident response startup Co3 Systems.

Schneier left BT last month following a seven-year association with the telco giant by mutual consent. Both parties were keen to stress that the working relationship had come to its natural end, dismissing suggestions that Schneier's recent criticism of the NSA's dragnet surveillance programmes had precipitated his departure.

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Bruce Schneier on Flame-Like Malware: It's All About the Way It Spreads

l33tdawg — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:28:22 +0000

Bruce Schneier on Flame-Like Malware: It's All About the Way It Spreads

posted onJune 20, 2012

by l33tdawg

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F-Secure’s Chief Research Officer Mikko Hypponen has recently explained why security companies have failed to catch malware like Duqu, Stuxnet and Flame before they became widely known.

In an article written for Wired, Hypponen admitted that the antivirus industry had failed because it couldn’t see that Flame, which had been in their possession since 2010, could pose a serious threat.

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