Tag: Cybersecurity

"Russia's and China's conception of information security is broader than the Western approach of cybersecurity," saidÂ Elaine Korzak of Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation.

China’s cybersecurity law — trouble for businesses

Katie Nelson · September 8, 2015 4:01 am

Women use their smart phones in the Colombian capital of Bogota.Â Colombian police have the technology to do things such as hack electronic devices unbeknownst to users.Â (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan)

In Colombia, the worst fears of the surveillance state are on display

Rudy Takala · September 8, 2015 4:01 am

The Commerce Department announced details of a new "multistakeholder process" aimed at getting cybersecurity researchers and the vendors of security products on the same page -- rather than at one another's throats -- when it comes to revealing vulnerabilities in software. (AP photo)

Procedural tactics may delay CISA

Charlie Mitchell · September 7, 2015 4:01 am

In this May 19, 2014, file photo, press materials are displayed on a table of the Justice Department in Washington, following a U.S. grand jury announcement that it charged five Chinese hackers with economic espionage and trade secret theft. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

National Security

U.S. may impose sanctions on China sooner than expected

Rudy Takala · September 5, 2015 4:01 am

The Department of Justice issued new guidelines on Thursday reining in the use of confidential cellphone surveillance technology. (iStock Photo)

DOJ boosts privacy protections with new surveillance guidelines

Rudy Takala · September 4, 2015 4:10 pm

The west front of the U.S. Capitol is seen under repair and in the reflecting pool, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2015 in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Lloyd’s warns D.C. faces titanic risk this decade

Curt Mills · September 3, 2015 6:05 pm

A participant looks at lines of code on a laptop on the first day of the 28th Chaos Communication Congress (28C3) - Behind Enemy Lines computer hacker conference on December 27, 2011 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Adam Berry/Getty Images)

Heritage Foundation server hacked

Rudy Takala · September 3, 2015 5:26 pm

Witnesses, from left, Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Director Katherine Archuleta; OPM Chief Information Officer Tony Scott; Assistant Secretary of Office of Cybersecurity and Communications National Protection and Programs Directorate at the Department of Homeland Security Andy Ozment and OPM Inspector General Patrick E. McFarland, are sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

OPM spends $133 million to protect hack victims

Pete Kasperowicz · September 1, 2015 10:11 pm

The amendment leaves broad interpretative discretion to John Kerry's State Department and tells it to seek guidance from the United Nations. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, Pool)

Amendment would direct Kerry to establish cyber ‘behavior’

Rudy Takala · September 1, 2015 5:42 pm

An iPhone forensics expert said a "pathogen" was equivalent to a "magical unicorn might exist on this phone." (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

226,000 iPhones compromised by Chinese hackers

Rudy Takala · September 1, 2015 3:41 pm

Chinese President Xi Jinping is scheduled to arrive in Washington next month for his first state visit, complete with a 21-gun salute and state dinner. (AP)

White House mum on China sanctions

Susan Crabtree · September 1, 2015 9:52 am

A meeting of the United Nations Security Council on August 19 in New York City. (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images)

UN group calls for more Internet rules

Rudy Takala · September 1, 2015 4:01 am