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Staying a Step Ahead of Internet Attacks

May 24, 2017

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“It’s difficult to make predictions. Especially about the future,” Yogi Berra famously stated. While this may be true for general predictions, I don’t believe it’s true for Internet security predictions.

By training, I am a cryptographer. In the late ’90s, I realized that Internet security wasn’t really about cryptography or even how protocols were implemented. Instead, it was about people and their actions. I believed criminals would start circumventing Internet security measures — authentication, in particular — by tricking people, using techniques we now refer to as “phishing.” However, no one else at that time seemed to believe that this type of deception would ever be successful.

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