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...
by Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff | Feb 14, 2019 | Cybersecurity, Energy, Featured
WASHINGTON –– The United States’ energy infrastructure has increasingly become a primary target for hostile cyber attacks, Assistant Secretary of Energy Karen Evans told lawmakers on Thursday. “The frequency, scale and sophistication of cyber threats have increased,”...
by Rhytha Zahid Hejaze | Apr 11, 2018 | Cybersecurity, Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Once again asserting that Cambridge Analytica and other companies improperly obtained millions of Facebook users’ data, Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday at his second congressional hearing in two days that he was among Facebook users whose data was...
by Rhytha Zahid Hejaze | Mar 8, 2018 | Cybersecurity, Featured, National Security, Technology
WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security has failed to hire needed cybersecurity professionals even though it was given approval to do so by Congress in 2014, according to a report released March 8 by the Government Accountability Office. The GAO, which is the...
by Erica Snow | Feb 7, 2018 | Cybersecurity, National Security
WASHINGTON – In response to Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, 16 states asked the Department of Homeland Security to review the security of their voting systems, and five reviews have been completed, a DHS official said Wednesday. Sen. Kamala...
by Jakob Lazzaro | Feb 6, 2018 | Cybersecurity, Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – Uber’s handling of a data breach that exposed 57 million customers to data theft was “morally wrong and legally reprehensible” Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn) said at a hearing Tuesday. The firm failed to notify the government or the public...
