The Chinese Communist Party is exploiting and exporting technological innovations to establish a panoptic form of governance—one through which it becomes possible for the state to constantly monitor individuals.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday undid an Obama-era policy that set limits on how the United States deploys its cyber weapons.
Until we find more certainty regarding how cybersecurity statistics are reported, we won't be to able to fully understand the scope of the problem.
It may seem odd to spend enormous amounts of time to discover new prime numbers, but these figures play a key role in keeping information safe in the digital age.
The legislation adds requirements for the Department of Homeland Security to report to Congress on its process and policies throughout the evaluation of vulnerable information.
An online consumer-protection expert breaks down the new advertising-disclosure bill working its way through Congress.
As cybersecurity concerns reach a fever pitch around the globe, the U.S. should expand the Peace Corps mandate to create a new Cyber Peace Corps.
The new badges will offer primers in online privacy and Internet infrastructure.
Two dozen House members have asked White House counsel to intervene, saying "these networks may already be stolen and the systems may already be compromised."
Cyber attacks are ramping up, and we're not ready for it.
As civil society worries about the threat of targeted surveillance, the library provides a critical blueprint for how to tackle the problem.
The government has never been allowed to create a "backdoor" to encrypted devices. Now, it's trying to force Apple to build one.
How Hollywood might be keeping more women from wanting to work in computer science.
Massive data breaches aren't getting any bigger, researchers say—but that might just mean the IT department is doing its job.
Computer scientists have devised a way to catch faked social media posts as they happen.
A series of humiliations for the U.S. government represent a brave new world for Americans and their data.
People are much stupider, and much smarter, than algorithms.
An expert on electronic privacy walks through the possibilities and perils on a national online security system designed, in part, by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Steve Santorelli gets computing experts and law enforcers to cooperate in a global fight against organized Internet crime.
With the president’s permission, the Pentagon can now fight cyberbattles inside the U.S. — and why that’s worrisome.
Particularly if NATO recognizes cyber-attacks as a trigger to start shooting.
Efforts to introduce malware into computer systems are less precise than building a secret portal right into the architecture.
Stuxnet, a sophisticated computer worm, was aimed (perhaps) at Iran's nuclear program — welcome to the 21st century.