Federal regulators have approved exemptions to existing copyright law that allow independent researchers to hack into the software of most Internet of Things devices. But there are strict limitations on it, and the exemptions only last for two years
A massive Distributed Denial of Service attack shut down a portion of the internet recently. Experts say it is unlikely a similar attack could take down the grid or other critical infrastructure but acknowledge that security remains weak in the indus
Online polls should be viewed with skepticism anyway – they are not scientific. But with the help of bots, they are even less credible – millions of people voting aren’t even people
The catastrophic breach of the federal Office of Personnel Management, which exposed the personal information of more than 22 million current and former employees, became public in mid-2015. It took another 15 months for Congress to complete a report
Unknown players – probably a nation state – are probing the defenses of the core infrastructure of the internet. How worried should we be?
There was general agreement at this week’s Cambridge Cyber Summit at MIT that it is imperative to find a balance between the often-competing needs of national security and individual privacy. But there was no agreement on what that balance woul
High-profile cases like those of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and IRS Commissioner John Koskinen seem to contradict the warnings that “email is forever.”
Security awareness training is one of the most effective ways to strengthen what is generally known as “the weakest link in the security chain.” The key is to make employees skeptical without paralyzing them with paranoia
Security experts say there is no evidence that hackers have tampered with votes in US elections. But they say the risk is very real, in large part because it is so easy
Conventional wisdom says that regularly changing passwords improves security. But a number of studies, plus the FTC’s chief technologist, say human weakness makes conventional wisdom wrong
