Articles tagged "cybersecurity"

When passwords fail, it's time to start thinking about what we have to offer our security devices: fingerprints, eyeballs and voices are a start.

Something's not working for the protesters.

The Internet's depending on you, Internet freedom advocates!

Remember CISPA?

At the end of the day, there's not really anything you can do about it.

Everybody! Gather whatever belongings you can and head to the nearest fallout shelter, because hackers just broke into Apple Headquarters, and the evil code-clipping villains got Facebook, too.

The government has decided it needs to beef up the ranks of its digital defenses. It’s assembling a league of extraordinary computer geeks for what will be known as the “Cyber Reserve.”

If you didn't already know it, the United States is in terrible trouble of being hit by a horrible, crippling cyberattack. _The New York Times_ calls it a "dire threat." Defense Secretary Leon Panetta calls it the impending "cyber Pearl Harbor." We d…

Happy Cybersecurity Awareness Month, everyone! To get things started off right, General Keith Alexander, the head of U.S. Cyber Command as well as the National Security Agency, discussed the state of the nation’s cyber defense capabilities with a cro…

FinFisher is a powerful piece of spyware long admired within cybersecurity circles. It’s capable of logging keystrokes, accessing and exporting a compromised computer’s files, and intercepting encrypted data such as Skype calls.

With a good old fashioned filibuster, Senate Republicans just blocked the sweeping cybersecurity legislation that some lawmakers have been trying for years to pass, and they don't sound sorry about it. The bill would have set cybersecurity standards

It's hard to imagine what cyberwarfare actually looks like. Is it like regular warfare, where two sides armed with arsenals of deadly weapons open fire on each other and hope for total destruction? What do they fire instead of bullets? Packets of inf…

Thanks so some ambitious, enterprising and dare-we-say fearless geeks, the Internet will be a little bit cleaner from now on. On Wednesday, a global team of computer security experts (read: defenders of freedom) took down Grum, the world's third larg…

In recent years, military experts have harped on the idea that cyberspace will be the battlefield of the future, and the United States military is getting more aggressive about training soldiers that can fight there. In June, six airmen graduated fro…

In the lead up to American-fronted strikes on Libya last March, the Obama administration seriously considered waging cyberattacks to impair the Qaddafi government’s integrated air-defense system, which threatened allied airstrikes, _The New York Time…

h5. _Major Pwnage: Marine specialists receiving the 2006 NSACSS Director's Trophy_Somewhere between the breathless reporting on China's "state-sponsored hacking offensive":http://www.motherboard.tv/2011/8/4/the-biggest-hack-ever-or-how-i-learned-to-l…

The term “hack” and “hacker” have been dirty words for as long as anyone can remember. Whether it’s "Julian Assange":http://motherboard.tv/2010/12/7/cheaters-whistleblowers-broken-mechanics-what-wikileaks-crackdowns-say-about-the-game-our-governments…