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Chaffetz reacted to the report by saying the lead official for technology issues at OPM should be fired. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Watchdog: OPM violated rules with contract to deal with data breach

Rudy Takala · December 11, 2015 5:01 pm

"State and local governments often do not have access to adequate personnel or technical cybersecurity resources," Rep. Will Hurd, R-Texas, said in proposing the bill. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

House wants local agencies to coordinate cybersecurity with feds

Rudy Takala · December 10, 2015 10:50 pm

Chinese official: Internet is ‘free through order’

Chinese official: Internet is ‘free through order’

Rudy Takala · December 10, 2015 5:20 pm

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, has repeatedly voiced concerns about the strength of encryption used by tech companies. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Feinstein promises to weaken encryption

Rudy Takala · December 10, 2015 12:58 am

"Too much ISIS. Enhance your calm," reads a line of accompanying text above an ad for an online pharmacy. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Anonymous asks for help ‘trolling’ Islamic State

Rudy Takala · December 10, 2015 12:49 am

âÅHacking backâï¿½ is illegal under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986. In addition to circumscribing limits on private enterprise, federal law does the same to many law enforcement agencies.

Should companies be allowed to ‘hack back’?

Rudy Takala · December 7, 2015 5:01 am

"For more than a decade, the FBI has been demanding extremely sensitive personal information about private citizens just by issuing letters to online companies like mine," said Nicholas Merrill, who owned the New York-based Calyx Internet Access. (AP file photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Feds collecting hoards of personal Internet data

Rudy Takala · December 1, 2015 9:11 pm

The Strengthening State and Local Cyber Crime Fighting Act, or H.R. 3490, which will create a National Computer Forensics Institute for the Secret Service to operate out of the Department of Homeland Security, passed by a bipartisan voice vote. (AP file)

House votes to create cybersecurity hub for the Secret Service

Rudy Takala · December 1, 2015 4:01 pm

After the attacks, several lawmakers, such as Sens. Richard Burr and John McCain, pointed to encryption as a contributing factor, even before there was any indication of the facts. (CQ Roll Call via AP)

How Washington’s campaign against encryption could help terrorists

Rudy Takala · November 30, 2015 5:01 am

Dear's party affiliation is UAF, which means unaffiliated or independent, and selected "female" for gender. (Andy Cross/The Denver Post via AP)

National Security

Colorado shooter identifies as woman in voter registration

Rudy Takala · November 28, 2015 8:32 pm

He noted, for example, that conservatives want to end the individual and corporate insurance mandates. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Karl Rove moves to bankroll Ben Carson

Rudy Takala · November 28, 2015 7:56 pm

The two Turkish journalists were charged with revealing state secrets and espionage. (AP Photo)

National Security

U.S. condemns Turkey’s arrest of journalists

Rudy Takala · November 28, 2015 6:23 pm