Contact tracing privacy leaves a lot to be desired, and may be the reason only 41 percent of potential contact-tracing app users are willing to try them.
What if someone threw a hacker conference, and nobody showed up?
As I boarded a United flight at SFO on March 17, the first day of San Francisco’... Read More...
Emailing or texting username-password combos is like assuming your attacker is lazy. Bad assumption. But we still need to share them sometimes. Here’s how to do it a bit more securely.
Ever wondered how that cool-looking chip on your bank card works? The EMV chip is actually a powerful computer that helps cryptographically process payments. Here’s how.
EVRY’s Monica Verma charts her path from curious kid to hacker to CISO. Improving cybersecurity, she writes, means treating it as an investment rather than a brake on innovation.
Earlier this week, Marcus Hutchins, the man who helped stop the WannaCry global ransomware attack, admitted in court to developing the Kronos banking malware as... Read More...
You might think of cybersecurity professionals as tech’s collective “watchers on the wall”—the guardians who let you know when doom is coming. With that perspec... Read More...
As veterans with cybersecurity experience struggle to find civilian jobs, employers are struggling to fill cybersecurity jobs. There’s a big opportunity here. Here’s what needs to change.
In a column for The Parallax, Gary McGraw outlines why his band wrote a song that passionately encourages every eligible voter to fill out and submit a ballot.
Consumers have long adopted military terms to describe their many civilian challenges. They can also use military tactics to tackle those challenges. Here is a sampling of each.
For implanted medical devices, where a faulty update could harm or even kill a patient, a doctor’s office visit is in order. With no billing code, hospitals have been eating the costs.
Vulnerable devices on your network can lead to intrusions of your most sensitive data, and IOT patches are rare. While manufacturers need accountability, we need to make better security choices.
Biometric locks have the same function—albeit more secure and convenient—to a consumer as a PIN or passcode. But they don’t have the same legal protections under the 5th Amendment. Here’s why.
As advanced surveillance technologies become more and more accessible, companies and individuals will more readily use it to track others, developer Emily Crose argues.
Most people think that the General Data Protection Regulation is about privacy, but it’s really about security. Shifting this thinking will drive investment that benefits everyone.
To address the great talent dearth in good cyberthreat analysts, hiring managers need to move the focus of their searches from technical skills to less teachable soft skills, Simone Petrella writes.
While others fear sentient robots eradicating humanity, there’s a much more urgent and imminent concern about how algorithmic and data bias can threaten society, Emily Crose argues.
Connected car data could be worth $750 billion by 2030. That’s great, if you’re a car company. But if you’re a consumer, you’ll want to be able to weigh the benefits against the risks.
The next self-driving car death easily could result from a hack. If companies investing in the technology aren’t prioritizing cybersecurity, they aren’t prioritizing safety—or their business.
Adrián Lamo followed his conscience turning in Chelsea Manning and paid a terrible personal cost. Jonathan Hirshon remembers the humanity of the “homeless hacker,” a longtime friend.
The punishment for allowing a breach is usually a light slap on the wrist, if anything. And in the case of credit-reporting agencies, the standard punishment can even turn into profit. It's time to hold companies accountable for breaches.
Is there a viable platform model that monetizes data and also meets data autonomy standards? Columnist Nathan Parker writes about the approach he’s taking with MakerNet.
Barlow, the recently departed Grateful Dead lyricist and EFF co-founder, motivated Internet usage protections from abuses of government—but not corporations.
Heading to the Winter Olympics in South Korea or another major public event? Don’t let yourself get so carried away with excitement that you forget that the bad guys are just waiting for you to slip up.
In order to reduce damage, security teams need to change their approach to vulnerability assessment, Bryson Bort writes. This starts with recognizing that nobody is safe from a cybersecurity threat.
Yale Privacy Lab fellows are advising people to use a third-party Android app store over Google Play. Here’s why their advice is incredibly bad for the average consumer.
Dismantling FCC Open Internet rules might allow ISPs to mess with privacy and security. But doing so today simply wouldn’t be practical or even profitable, Rob Graham argues.
Eliminating Net neutrality laws would likely make online privacy more expensive, attorney Ryan E. Long argues. But CALE requirements have already handicapped them.
Good security relies on trust, which doesn’t scale well. So writes Internet pioneer Paul Vixie, as he reflects on the indictment of the man who stopped WannaCry on charges related to Kronos.
A recent Intelligence Squared podcast event set up to debate whether companies have the right to shield customer data from government agencies dives headlong into talk about encryption.
Our vital systems and seemingly frivolous daily communications are in need of technological scrutiny. And yet we often fail to see ourselves as targets and take action.
Is there a difference between computer security in your home versus in a small business? Absolutely, says the founder of Townsquared. But it’s not as big as you might think.
The notorious Internet entrepreneur’s previewed service is poised to enable storage of encrypted media and Bitcoin payments. But how can Dotcom launch a relevant service when his assets are frozen, and he's under indictment?
Attributing cyberattacks to specific people or organizations is far from an exact science. And a misattribution today runs a high risk of increasing military tensions.
During World War II, the U.S. Office of War Information launched a “Loose Lips Sink Ships” campaign to reduce the chance that someone might inadvertently give u... Read More...
Information “starvation” under closed regimes prevents informed decision making. A flood of disinformation has similarly harmful effects, Garry Kasparov argues. And the antidote isn’t easy to swallow.
Tools developed to create, acquire, and distribute data can also be used to gain influence, monitor, and persecute. These uses are two sides of the same coin.
Far beyond Yahoo's services, it’s time to delete your archived email, private messages, contacts, files, photos—anything you can’t afford to find its way into a hacker’s hands and beyond.
Responding to a court order, Yahoo reportedly made custom software to scan billions of emails for terrorist ties. Beyond constitutionality, the legality of compulsory tool development remains an open question.
The anticopying technology, despite being ineffective and potentially dangerous, is covered by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. This makes breaking it—even for good reasons—illegal.
To any software engineer with an imagination, the resulting possibilities are horrifying. A favorable precedent would let the government turn us into unwilling surveillance assistants.
In its case against Apple, the federal agency claims that it’s trying to unlock just one phone. Far more is at stake, domestically and internationally, experts and activists say.
Even in assured defeat, competing in chess against the longstanding top player in the world is a privilege. It is also an experience in learning the value of adaptability.
With customers worldwide who would be negatively impacted by weakened encryption, Silicon Valley has an obvious interest in uniting together against a very dumb idea.
The documentary, of two filmmakers who traveled to Tibet before the 2008 Olympics, shows how China uses technology to control information and people far beyond its borders.
The political establishment and the tech industry aren’t clashing for the first or last time over the government’s proper role in safeguarding privacy and cybersecurity.
