Tag: Cybersecurity

A bill by House Homeland Security Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, was unanimously approved in committee on June 8 and supporters are urging House leaders to bring it to the floor. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Lawmakers want new cyberstrategy for Homeland Security by July

Charlie Mitchell · June 26, 2016 1:21 pm

—œIf you look at the many crises we have around the world, she was there at the beginning of almost every one,—£ said Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)

National Security

Cotton: Clinton is ‘disqualified and compromised’

Rudy Takala · June 24, 2016 4:01 am

The OPM data breach last year resulted in the theft of information on more than 22 million people in the agency’s system, and the resignation of both its director and chief information officer. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

OPM objects to poor cybersecurity review from federal auditors

Rudy Takala · June 22, 2016 6:20 pm

The hack of the Clinton family's nonprofit came as part of a broader campaign aimed at gathering data on more than 4,000 party officials, lawyers and foundations in the United States, according to a report. (AP Photo/Abdeljalil Bounhar)

Report: Clinton Foundation latest target of Russian hackers

Rudy Takala · June 21, 2016 9:03 pm

It started when a fake NSA account tweeted, "We'd like to say 'Happy Birthday!' to our former friend @Snowden. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia, File)

National Security

Snowden turns 33 in good humor

Rudy Takala · June 21, 2016 7:26 pm

"The changes to Rule 41 give federal magistrate judges across the United States new authority to issue warrants for hacking and surveillance in cases where a computer's location is unknown," the group wrote in a Tuesday letter to congressional leaders. (iStock photo)

Tech companies urge against looser restrictions for federal mass hacking

Rudy Takala · June 21, 2016 5:55 pm

The agencies are NASA, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Office of Personnel Management, and the Department of Veterans Affairs. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Watchdog: Key federal agencies failing on cybersecurity

Maria Biery · June 21, 2016 3:15 pm

Hacker releases Clinton Foundation documents

Hacker releases Clinton Foundation documents

Sarah Bedford · June 21, 2016 3:00 pm

Justice Dept.: Mass hacking should require just one warrant

Rudy Takala · June 21, 2016 1:20 pm

Current GPS technology is susceptible to meaconing, intrusion, jamming and interference that can significantly threaten and damage both military and civilian GPS capabilities. (Air Force)

National Security

Upgraded GPS capability necessary for future security

Slim Marlar · June 21, 2016 4:03 am

The company said the September agreement between President Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping was an affirmation of the direction the country was already moving in, rather than an inflection point. (AP Photo)

National Security

Report: China doing less cyberspying

Rudy Takala · June 21, 2016 12:00 am

Many in the telecom sector and Republicans on Capitol Hill believe the FCC has reversed course with the privacy proposal, which is related to its highly controversial order on "open access" to the Internet. (AP Photo)

Critics decry FCC overreach on Internet service providers

Charlie Mitchell · June 20, 2016 4:01 am