People who spend a good portion of their personal and professional lives online say they care about security and privacy. But most of them don’t act like it
They are a hot product, since they can tell you so much about your health. The problem is fitness wearables can tell the same things to a lot of other people, from marketers to identity thieves
RSA panel warns there is no easy solution to online IP theft in response to economic espionage.
The Internet of Things, while already vast and varied, is poised to become vastly bigger. A panel at the RSA conference said that makes the legal liability issues around vulnerabilities and failures very complicated
Where you are says a lot about what you do, what you think, what you believe and how you live. And data about all of that is being collected from our mobile devices
Ransomware has been around for decades, but has been aimed mainly at organizations or individual computers. With the devices making up the Internet of Things headed for the hundreds of billions, that is an attack surface most cybercrooks can’t
It is not a comfortable topic – virtually all cases involving a cybersecurity whistleblower have ended with a confidential settlement. But experts, and lawyers, say that in an increasingly connected world, those cases are bound to increase
Political campaigns have always sought to shape their message to attract specific groups of voters. But big data analytics now makes it possible to create personal profiles of individual voters. And that is raising concerns among privacy advocates
The U.S. intelligence community is well aware that hostile hackers – some from nation states – have gained access to portions of the nation’s critical infrastructure. There is wide agreement that this is not a good thing. But the de
The controversial Cyber Information Sharing Act (CISA) is now law. But opponents, who say it will function mainly as a government surveillance tool, are not standing down
