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AI in Security
What Anthropic's Reported Mythos Moment Means for Cybersecurity Teams
Reports about Anthropic testing a far more capable unreleased model are a reminder that security teams should prepare for sharper AI-assisted offense and faster defensive automation at the same time.
Security History
Katie Moussouris: The Security Leader Who Made Vulnerability Disclosure More Professional and More Humane
Katie Moussouris helped professionalize bug bounties and vulnerability disclosure so security research could improve systems instead of collapsing into conflict.
Security History
Dan Kaminsky: The DNS Defender Who Forced the Internet to Take Resolver Security Seriously
Dan Kaminsky's DNS cache-poisoning research triggered one of the most important coordinated internet security responses of the modern era.
Security History
Joan Daemen: The Cryptographer Behind Rijndael and the Symmetric Security Most Users Never Notice
Joan Daemen helped create Rijndael, the algorithm that became AES and secured enormous volumes of modern digital communication.
Security History
Vincent Rijmen: The Co-Creator of AES and a Pillar of Modern Encryption at Scale
Vincent Rijmen helped create Rijndael, the cipher selected as AES, and shaped one of the most deployed security standards in the world.
Security History
Paul Kocher: The Security Pioneer Who Forced the Industry to Respect Timing and Side-Channel Attacks
Paul Kocher changed internet security by showing that implementation details and timing behavior could leak secrets even when algorithms looked sound.
Security History
Ross Anderson: The Security Engineer Who Taught the Internet How Systems Really Fail
Ross Anderson helped shape security engineering as a full-system discipline, connecting cryptography, economics, operations, and failure analysis.
Security History
Bruce Schneier: The Writer and Thinker Who Made Security Legible to the Internet Age
Bruce Schneier helped shape internet security not just through cryptographic work, but by raising the field's public literacy and strategic thinking.
Security History
Phil Zimmermann: The Privacy Pioneer Who Put Strong Encryption in Ordinary Hands
Phil Zimmermann's work on PGP helped make strong encryption available to ordinary users and shaped the politics of internet privacy.
Security History
Eli Biham: The Cryptanalyst Who Made Block Cipher Design Much Harder to Get Wrong
Eli Biham helped transform cipher evaluation through differential cryptanalysis and pushed the field toward stronger designs.
Security History
Steve Bellovin: The Security Pioneer Who Helped Explain Firewalls, DNS Risk, and Internet Reality
Steve Bellovin helped shape practical internet defense by exposing protocol weaknesses and clarifying how real network security should work.