Government lawyers don’t understand the Internet. That’s a problem.
"Some of today’s technical legal befuddlement stems from the fact that the field is so new. “No one who is practicing today had a cybersecurity class in la…
"Some of today’s technical legal befuddlement stems from the fact that the field is so new. “No one who is practicing today had a cybersecurity class in la…
Last week, we argued that the public discussion surrounding two of the government’s most controversial mass surveillance programs – PRISM and Upstream – has not…
Emails of the Democratic National Committee were leaked this summer. Last year, a Chinese hack of the US Office of Personnel Management exposed the personal dat…
""Local election boards also need access to top tier security experts to assist them in their selection and implementation of voting systems," sa…
The legal authority behind the controversial PRISM and Upstream surveillance programs used by the NSA to collect large swaths of private communications from lea…
"“I wouldn’t say it’s good,” said Northeastern University law professor Andrea Matwyshyn. “I would say it’s inevitable.” The action by Muddy Waters wa…
Over the past few months, a team at Mozilla has been looking closely at the recent remote hacking cases currently winding their way through the courts. Because…
In many cases athletes train for years, if not decades, to reach the pinnacle of their sports and represent their respective nations in the Olympic Games. Incre…
""Interfering with the electoral and political process of countries is a classic tool of intelligence and foreign policy,” noted Richard Forno of the…
"Cybersecurity analyst Richard Forno said that outcome shows foreign hackers can achieve political goals and incentivizes them to escalate their attacks.…
Many of America’s top cybersecurity executives are gathering in Las Vegas this week for an annual conference known as Black Hat 2016. Organizers say hacking rem…
""While the entertainer in question likely considers this password collection to be a harmless personalized promotional activity, there may indeed be…