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...
by Catherine Kim | Feb 6, 2018 | Cybersecurity, Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON –– The government’s slow and inefficient response to Russian interference in the 2016 election shows the need for an increase in cybersecurity funding, said New York Rep. Eliot Engel. Engel is the ranking member of the Foreign Affairs Committee which held a...
by David Fishman | Feb 15, 2017 | Cybersecurity
Baltimore is at the leading edge of deploying surveillance technologies. Even though its practices have raised questions about civil liberties and privacy, law enforcement agencies around the world see it as a test bed for the future of policing. For up to 10 hours a...
by Jason Mast | Feb 15, 2017 | Cybersecurity
Ahmed Mansour, a human rights activist based in the United Arab Emirates, has been subject to years of cyberattacks for his activism. But this August, he received one of unprecedented sophistication. On consecutive mornings, Mr. Mansour received texts from an unknown...
by Andrew Merica | Feb 15, 2017 | Cybersecurity
WASHINGTON – Conservative and liberal groups have spent years locked in heated battles over the best way forward on such issues as economic and health care policy. But there’s a common enemy uniting far left and right wing groups: Government surveillance. After...
by Isabella Alvarenga | Feb 15, 2017 | Cybersecurity
WASHINGTON — Sen. Ron Wyden sat in a wood-paneled hearing room of the Hart Senate building as he grilled Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. It was March 12 2013, just months before Edward Snowden revealed the government’s mass surveillance of...
by Benjamin Din | Feb 15, 2017 | Cybersecurity
WASHINGTON — Over the past several years, FBI Director James Comey has turned attention onto an issue where the increasingly common use of encryption technology prevents the federal agency from accessing information it needs, even with a court order. This challenge —...
by David Gernon & Ross Krasner | Feb 15, 2017 | Cybersecurity
Carnegie Mellon In a video last year, Marios Savvides, the director of Carnegie Mellon’s CyLab Biometrics Center, sat in his white Chevy Suburban and peered into his sideview mirror, explaining for the camera that a team of students about 40 feet behind him were...
