Cybersecurity and the Gap Between Skill and Ability

Collection of Schneier blog posts highlighting rising risks across AI, cryptography, surveillance, and policy. Five Eyes agencies warn that generative AI models are increasingly capable of autonomously conducting cyberattacks; Google is suing a Telegram-based Chinese scam network that used Google’s Gemini to automate phishing and fake sites. France’s ANSSI will stop certifying non-quantum-safe encryption (policy push to accelerate PQ migration). Research reveals a class of weak RSA keys with many zeros found in the wild, enabling practical factoring attacks against some deployed keys. Multiple