Bruce Schneier: 'We're in early years of a cyber arms race'

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/19/bruce_schneier_linuxcon/

By Neil McAllister
The Register
19 Aug 2015

LinuxCon 2015 Security guru Bruce Schneier says there's a kind of cold war 
now being waged in cyberspace, only the trouble is we don't always know 
who we're waging it against.

Schneier appeared onscreen via Google Hangouts at the 
LinuxCon/CloudOpen/ContainerCon conference in Seattle on Tuesday to warn 
attendees that the modern security landscape is becoming increasingly 
complex and dangerous.

"We know, on the internet today, that attackers have the advantage," 
Schneier said. "A sufficiently funded, skilled, motivated adversary will 
get in. And we have to figure out how to deal with that."

Using the example of last November's crippling online attack against Sony 
Pictures, Schneier said it was clear that many of these new attacks were 
the work of well-funded nation-states.

"Many of us, including myself, were skeptical for several months. By now 
it does seem obvious that it was North Korea, as amazing as that sounds," 
he said.

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