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The hacking group has promised to engage in cyberattacks in retaliation for Flint's water crisis. (AP Photo/Roger Schneider)

Energy and Environment

Anonymous takes credit for crashing Michigan’s website

Rudy Takala · January 28, 2016 8:31 pm

"Encryption really helps protect personal information," Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis, said at a cyberspace policy event at the American Enterprise Institute. "It's crucial to that. I like the fact that if anyone gets my iPhone, they're going to have a hard time getting into it." (AP file photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Senate homeland chair: Allowing strong encryption is ‘crucial’

Rudy Takala · January 28, 2016 4:02 pm

Sens. Jack Reed, D-R.I., and Susan Collins, R-Me., proposed the Cybersecurity Disclosure Act, which would require companies to disclose whether anyone on their boards "has expertise or experience in cybersecurity." (AP File Photo/Harry Hamburg)

Senators propose new cyber reporting requirement for companies

Rudy Takala · January 27, 2016 10:26 pm

The National Security Agency routinely hacks private companies in order to create backdoor mechanisms in encryption products that allow the agency to maintain access, which makes the NSA a suspect in the case. (Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg)

Lawmaker: Backdoors for encryption are ‘dangerous’

Rudy Takala · January 27, 2016 8:14 pm

Possible errors in coding suggest a timestamp discrepancy that would indicate the encrypted message was fake. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

National Security

ISIS striving to convince experts it can use encryption

Rudy Takala · January 27, 2016 12:25 am

"Daesh has managed to seize passports in Iraq, Syria and Libya and to set up a true industry of fake passports," said French Interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve, right, after meeting with Dutch Justice minister Ard van der Steur, left, in Amsterdam, Netherlands. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

French official suggests Islamic State has ‘fake document industry’

Rudy Takala · January 25, 2016 10:11 pm

"We cherish the Second Amendment for our right to self-protection, we must apply this same zeal to protecting our computers," states an eight-page plan issued by Ben Carson on Monday. (AP Photo)

Carson: Protect computers like guns

Rudy Takala · January 25, 2016 6:28 pm

The report comes after the Securities and Exchange Commission censured a St. Louis-based investment adviser in September for failing to uphold "required cybersecurity policies" after losing information to a Chinese hack. (AP Photo)

Report urges hedge funds to improve cybersecurity

Rudy Takala · January 25, 2016 6:22 pm

The Biometric Information Privacy Act prohibits companies from collecting "personal physiological biometric information" like fingerprints, retina scans, or, plaintiffs in the case argue, facial scans.

You own your face: States fight to keep companies from storing your biometric data

Rudy Takala · January 25, 2016 5:01 am

Republicans push Obama to get tough on Chinese hacking

Rudy Takala · January 25, 2016 5:01 am

Mike Pompeo said the Obama administration has fumbled on security issues, and he is working to use his role in Congress to minimize what he views as the damage the president has done. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Q&A: Why politicians need to understand encryption

Rudy Takala · January 24, 2016 5:01 am

The discussions take on added significance as Israel and countries in the West brace for a turbulent year. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

National Security

State Department’s cyber head to meet with Israeli officials

Rudy Takala · January 23, 2016 9:11 pm