Tag: Cybersecurity

Energy and Environment

Anonymous takes aim at Michigan water crisis

Rudy Takala · January 22, 2016 6:04 pm

"Spending time arguing ... [saying] encryption is bad and we ought to do away with it, that's a waste of time to me," Adm. Mike Rogers said. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

NSA director calls encryption debate a ‘waste of time’

Rudy Takala · January 21, 2016 8:13 pm

"Each and every player had an incentive to behave well until the [nuclear] negotiation ... was to be decided upon," Major Gen. Uzi Moskovitz said in a Tuesday interview with the Financial Times. (AP Photo)

Israeli official: Expect cyberattacks in the wake of Iran nuke deal

Rudy Takala · January 20, 2016 8:37 pm

Documents show that two unnamed co-conspirators worked with Su Bin, a 50-year-old Chinese aviation industry entrepreneur living in Canada, to steal the plans in 2013. (AP file photo/Rick Bowmer)

National Security

Chinese military officers implicated in theft of F-35 designs

Rudy Takala · January 20, 2016 4:19 pm

"The idea of having a debate about a backdoor into encryption could have happened fifteen years ago, but now the horse is [out of] the barn. ... I don't believe there's a single silver bullet in a legislative way," said Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Lawmakers want congressional encryption commission

Rudy Takala · January 20, 2016 3:43 am

One of the group's members, "Fearz," hacked a Comcast Xfinity account held by John Holdren, the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, by targeting his wife, the group told Motherboard in an online chat. (AP Photo)

Teens hack White House science and tech official

Rudy Takala · January 19, 2016 3:31 pm

"I believe whether it's a back door or a front door that the American principle of law should still hold," O'Malley said. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton)

O’Malley calls for breakable encryption

Rudy Takala · January 18, 2016 5:23 am

The wires in towns and cities, the distribution grid under the states, is more vulnerable to hackers and would-be attackers.

Energy and Environment

Lawmakers push to shield electrical grid from hackers

John Siciliano · January 18, 2016 5:01 am

"It is not only the government that we have to worry about, it is private corporations." (AP Photo/Mic Smith)

National Security

Sanders warns of ubiquitous data collection

Rudy Takala · January 18, 2016 4:19 am

"The current global nuclear security system has dangerous gaps," said the Nuclear Threat Initiative. (AP Photo/Bob Edme)

National Security

More than 20 nations unprepared to defend nuclear infrastructure

Rudy Takala · January 15, 2016 11:26 pm

The NSA gave itself a total of eight passing grades, even in two areas it failed. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

NSA gives itself a positive performance review

Rudy Takala · January 15, 2016 8:49 pm

Republican presidential candidate, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush suggested that the National Security Agency be granted authority to oversee civilian cybersecurity efforts. (AP Photo/Rainier Ehrhardt)

Bush tackles encryption, cybersecurity in debate

Rudy Takala · January 15, 2016 12:31 pm