Cybersecurity

The Encryption Wars Will Return One Way or Another

House Homeland aide predicts another encryption standoff, urges tackling the issue before there’s a crisis.

Artificial Intelligence

The Demon Voice That Can Control Your Smartphone

Researchers have created creepy sounds unintelligible to humans but still capable of talking to phones’ digital assistants.

Cybersecurity

Cyber Breach at Hospital; McDonald's User Info Exposed; and a Gmail Scam

Just another week in ThreatWatch, our regularly updated index of noteworthy data breaches.

Cybersecurity

Legacy systems, hygiene top Air Force 2017 cyber list

The Air Force will prioritize making legacy and mission systems cyber secure and instilling a culture of cyber security in the workforce in 2017, says CISO Pete Kim.

Cybersecurity

Hackers Downloaded US Government Climate Data and Stored it on European Servers as Trump Was Being Inaugurated

Many of the programmers who showed up at UCLA for the event had day jobs as IT consultants or data managers at startups.

Cybersecurity

Trump Administration Highlights Offensive Cyber in First Moments

The new commander-in-chief noted offensive military cyber capabilities and using offensive cyber to disrupt ISIL

Cybersecurity

DHS tackles backlog of unauthorized IT systems

A report by the agency's inspector general says DHS has made progress in cybersecurity training, dual-factor authentication and certifying systems, but more 50 of its unclassified systems still lack authorities to operate.

Cybersecurity

CIO Council Plans Https Default in 2017

About 70 percent of federal web domains now use https encryption.

Cybersecurity

The Army has been hacked -- and is happy about it

The first “Hack the Army” bug bounty challenge wrapped up in December, and the results are in with 179 participants finding 118 actionable bugs in public-facing Army websites.

Cybersecurity

Hospital Breach Affects Thousands of Patients

Healthcare and Public Health // Virginia, USA

Cybersecurity

High-Tech Features That Make Passports Secure

The flimsy pages and patriotic designs betray just how many security measures are hidden inside.

Cybersecurity

Transparency Group Sues for FBI Records on Russian Hacking

The Electronic Privacy Information Center cites an “urgent public interest” in the records being released.

Cybersecurity

Administration finalizes cyber response plan

The Obama administration has approved a long-awaited and debated update to the National Cyber Incident Response Plan that outlines roles and responsibilities in response to a significant cyber incident in the U.S.

Cybersecurity

Touhill steps down as CISO

The federal government's first CISO has stepped down, and it's not clear if the position will survive.

Cybersecurity

Commerce Nominee Endorses Cyber Push, Modernizing Government Tech

Billionaire investor Wilbur Ross also praised the security benefits of cloud computing.

Cybersecurity

Rounds to Lead Senate Armed Services Cyber Panel

He pledged to focus on DOD’s role protecting critical infrastructure from cyberattacks.