by Julian Andreone | Dec 8, 2023 | Cybersecurity, Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Congressman Chris Deluzio, D-Pa., an Iraq War veteran, former voting rights attorney and former labor union organizer, worked in election security for Pitt Cyber before entering Congress in 2022. Now, Deluzio joins Medill News Service for an exclusive...
by Casey He | Oct 26, 2023 | Cybersecurity, Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — Cutting the budget of the federal cyber defense agency will severely weaken the government’s protection against foreign cyberattacks, cybersecurity officials told lawmakers Wednesday. “A significant cut to our budget would be catastrophic. We would...
by Zinya Salfiti | Nov 4, 2021 | Cybersecurity
WASHINGTON – Companies too often prioritize cost over protection when it comes to cybersecurity, the chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee said at a hearing Thursday, but critical infrastructure industry officials said Biden administration...
by Khadija Islow | Mar 4, 2020 | Cybersecurity, Featured
WASHINGTON – The technology industry wants people to believe that illicit activity is largely confined to the dark web, but the open web and big players like Facebook actually are where most of the organized crime syndicates operate, said an expert on trafficking and...
by Joshua Irvine | Mar 2, 2020 | Cybersecurity, Featured
WASHINGTON – Almost all of the federal agencies charged with protecting critical American infrastructure from cyberattacks have not developed effective methods to measure whether industries ranging from the energy sector to financial services have adopted U.S....
by Cameron Peters | Mar 22, 2019 | Cybersecurity, Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — Experts say electronic voting machines pose a threat to the security of American elections, but Congress has shown little interest in requiring more secure machines nationwide despite Russian hacking in the 2016 and 2018 elections. The states that have...
by Cameron Peters | Mar 20, 2019 | Cybersecurity, Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — Despite at least 21 states being the target of Russian hacking in the 2016 election, experts say that there is no evidence that a foreign power has interfered in the outcome of a U.S. election then or since. But election cybersecurity experts say 2020 is...
by Leslie Bonilla | Mar 19, 2019 | Cybersecurity, Featured, Technology
WASHINGTON—Hosting the 2020 summer Olympic games makes Tokyo a target for cyberattacks, and the best defense is international cooperation, experts said Tuesday. At last year’s games in South Korea, cyberattacks downed hundreds of computers, taking the Internet and TV...
by Charlotte Walsh | Mar 19, 2019 | Cybersecurity, Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — Adult film star Raquel Roper was watching a trailer for popular Youtuber Shane Dawson’s new series focusing on the video manipulation trend known as deepfakes. Near the end of the video, she noticed a clip taken from one of her films — but it wasn’t...
by Justin Askenazy | Mar 12, 2019 | Cybersecurity, Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – Developing more complex artificial intelligence is necessary for the United States to keep pace with Russia and China, top defense technology officials said Tuesday. Leaders from several Defense Department technology agencies told senators at an armed...
by Charlotte Walsh | Mar 6, 2019 | Cybersecurity, Featured, Politics, Technology
WASHINGTON — House and Senate Democrats Wednesday introduced legislation to restore net neutrality protections undone by the Trump administration. The three-page “Save the Internet Act” would restore a 2015 Obama-era order allowing the Federal Communications...
by Cameron Peters | Feb 27, 2019 | Cybersecurity, Featured
WASHINGTON — A House Appropriations committee said Wednesday that not only did foreign actors attempt to interfere in the 2016 election, but that ahead of the 2020 election, vulnerabilities in many state election systems have not been fixed. Their testimony reaffirmed...
