Tag: Cybersecurity

"I was brought up in a time when communist Russia under Stalin was thought to be, everybody is spied on, everybody is looked into, every little thing can get you secretly thrown into prison," Wozniak said. "We had our Bill of Rights. And it's just dear to me. The Bill of Rights says some bad people won't do certain bad things because we're protecting humans to live as humans." (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Apple co-founder calls federal effort to bypass encryption ‘dangerous’

Rudy Takala · March 17, 2016 8:12 pm

"Apple is not fighting for privacy; it's fighting for profit," wrote Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Tom Cotton: Apple is fighting for profit, not privacy

Kelly Cohen · March 17, 2016 7:38 pm

"We're in this bizarre position where we're defending the civil liberties of the country against the government," Cook said. "I mean, I never expected to be in this position. The government should always be the one defending civil liberties, and yet there's a role-reversal here. I still feel like I'm in another world, that I'm in this bad dream." (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

Apple CEO ‘deeply offended’ by government actions

Rudy Takala · March 17, 2016 2:44 pm

Emails: Clinton tried to get a secure BlackBerry

Emails: Clinton tried to get a secure BlackBerry

Rudy Takala · March 16, 2016 6:41 pm

That was up from 51 percent at the same time the previous year. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)

Google: 77 percent of searches now encrypted

Rudy Takala · March 16, 2016 4:58 pm

"China ... is willing to deepen cooperation with the United States on the basis of laws in the field of cybersecurity and the fight against terrorism," Chinese Minister of Public Security Guo Shengkun said. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

National Security

China invites U.S. to cooperate on ‘Internet security’

Rudy Takala · March 15, 2016 11:45 pm

One of Ash Carter's goals is to make the Pentagon an easier entity for the private sector to work with. "It can be difficult to work for the government as a company, because we can be clunky and we can be bureaucratic and so forth, and we need to get better at that." (Courtesy of DoD)

Ash Carter turns to Silicon Valley to solve his problems

Jamie McIntyre · March 14, 2016 5:01 am

"I think the bigger issue is that we're having a national cyber exercise without a national cyber incident response plan," said one industry source.

Federal agencies prep for ‘cyber storm’

Charlie Mitchell · March 14, 2016 5:01 am

Potential hackers now target every link in the supply chain of information —" the taxpayer, the e-file companies and the IRS. Spear phishing attacks are the most common type of tax fraud.

POLICY ROUNDUP

Washington Examiner, Joana Suleiman · March 14, 2016 5:01 am

WhatsApp, which was purchased by Facebook in 2014, is most commonly used to exchange messages overseas.

Encrypted Facebook application becomes latest problem for feds

Rudy Takala · March 14, 2016 12:42 am

Matthew Keys, right, a social media editor, faced federal charges that he allegedly conspired with a hacker to deface the website of the Los Angeles Times. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Prosecutors seek five-year sentence for journalist who helped hackers

Rudy Takala · March 11, 2016 8:46 pm

"The owner of the phone is the county, the employer of one of the terrorists who is now dead." (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Lynch tells Colbert, ‘We’re not asking for a backdoor’ into Apple

Rudy Takala · March 11, 2016 5:04 pm