Is Cybersecurity a Good Reason to Subsidize Coal and Nuclear Energy?
Nah.
Nah.
When it comes to the midterm elections, security has already lost.
Autonomous vehicles are giant security risk and the white hats need to get there before the black hats do.
In wake of a new indictment against Russian agents, Dan Coats warns that Moscow’s 'actions are persistent, they’re pervasive, and they’re meant to undermine America’s democracy.'
The tech titan uses faulty reasoning to end a Pentagon relationship.
“Hybrid warfare is already here and America is not ready," says Nebraska senator.
Its public approval at record lows, Congress this week returned to popular and comfortable territory: flogging CEOs.
The Senate voted Thursday to impose new sanctions against Russia for its efforts to disrupt last year's presidential election through cyberattacks against the Democratic party and state election rolls.
Note: Fox News retracted the story upon which this report was based on May 23.
President-elect Donald Trump said he has a "constructive meeting and conversation" with officials in the intelligence community Friday. Trump, who has recently cast doubts publicly about intelligence reports that Russian-supported cyber-attacks tried to influence last November's presidential…
Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell is joining bipartisan calls for a congressional investigation into Russia's interference in the U.S. election, following an announcement that President Obama has ordered a similar such review.
The Russian government's alleged involvement in disrupting or influencing the 2016 elections in the United States is one factor that prompted the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to offer cybersecurity services to state, county and local election agencies. Just a month out from the elections,…
Even in this unconventional election, a highly conventional fact remains: A handful of swing states stand to decide who the next president will be. Meanwhile, early voting is already underway. And accusations that the system is "rigged" by cheaters seem to gain legitimacy as hacking attempts appear…
The Internet has transformed the world so much over the last 20 years that the only constant is news articles that open by declaring how much the Internet has transformed the world.
During an appearance on Russia Today, a television network funded by the Russian government, Donald Trump said Thursday that it was "pretty unlikely" that the Kremlin is interfering in the 2016 election, though U.S. intelligence officials have claimed otherwise.
Hundreds of "test items" from the redesigned, Common Core-aligned SAT have leaked, according to a Reuters investigation into security breaches of the company that administers the test, College Board. The confidential "test items" are new reading comprehension packets and math problems, and now…
Under the category "with friends like these," Jack Moss, founder of the Black Hat and DefCon hacking conferences, called Hillary Clinton "the devil we know" while headlining a Las Vegas fundraiser for the Democratic candidate for president Wednesday night. Moss's comments echoed remarks Donald…
The Hillary Clinton campaign is holding a fundraiser in Las Vegas this week during the annual Black Hat "global information security event." The announcements says that participants include Jeff Moss, the founder of Black Hat; Michael Sulmeyer, who, according to CSO Online is the Clinton campaign's…
An ominous “What now?" hung in the air after the FBI circumvented intransigent Apple to hack the San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook's iPhone back in March. The FBI paid a third-party firm that had come forward offering to unlock the phone but wouldn't disclose its methods to the feds. Thus…
In 1988, Robert Tappan Morris, then a graduate student at Cornell University, decided to write a computer program to measure the size of the still-nascent Internet. Morris’s effort, a cleverly written bit of code that exploited security weaknesses, quickly spread through the computer network,…
Advertisements in Japanese for handbags, backpacks, running shoes, and more began showing up on the website of the U.S. National Archives this week. Hackers managed to compromise a subdomain of the site, eisenhower.archives.gov. Below are screen captures of just two of the unauthorized pages:
Since news broke of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server, Mrs. Clinton and her campaign have sought to downplay the significance of using non-government equipment to conduct electronic correspondence as the nation's top diplomat. During her first press…
The websites of several federal government agencies, including the National Weather Service (NWS), are unprotected from scammers looking to exploit a security weakness to fool potential victims. The sites in question allow what are known as "unvalidated redirects." An unvalidated redirect is a link…
Jeh Johnson, the secretary of homeland security, has released a statement following the North Korean-backed cyber attack on Sony Pictures. Johnson urges American companies to protect themselves against cybersecurity threats and says the Department of Homeland Security is "here to help."
On May 6, the media was full of warnings about an immediately pending cyberattack called “OpUSA.” Homeland Security said “The attacks will likely result in limited disruptions and mostly consistent of nuisance-level attacks against publicly accessible web pages and possibly data exploitation.” This…
Since the hacking of the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, etc., and the Mandiant revelations about China’s PLA Unit 61398, the media and Internet have exploded with talk of our reaching a “tipping point” in cybersecurity (or not, depending on the point of view). We’re,…
The Telegraph reports that Chinese spies likely were able to access the Facebook account of NATO chief Adm. James Stavridis: