Unknown attackers have successfully hijacked and redirected Internet traffic belonging to financial services companies, VoIP providers and governments many times over the past year.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 19 Nov | Read more
Any effort to rein in the National Security Agency after its widespread spy activities were revealed in leaked documents must focus on more than simply limiting what personal data can be collected.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 19 Nov | Read more
Privacy rights advocates and legal experts this week said they were disappointed but not surprised with the U.S. Supreme Court's denial of a petition challenging the legality of the National Security Agency's phone metadata collection program.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 19 Nov | Read more
The Internet Security Alliance, a multi-sector trade association, wants to know what adoption of a new cybersecurity framework will entail for companies in critical infrastructure industries
Jaikumar Vijayan | 15 Nov | Read more
The government's insistence, in its dispute with Lavabit, that cloud service providers hand over their encryption keys when asked, has refocused attention on the issue of key ownership and management in the cloud.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 15 Nov | Read more
Several advocacy groups are calling for an investigation into Internet companies Yahoo and Google whose networks were secretly accessed by the National Security Agency.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 13 Nov | Read more
There can be no expectation of privacy in data exposed to the Internet over a peer-to-peer file-sharing network, a federal judge in Vermont ruled in a case involving three men charged with possession of child pornography.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 12 Nov | Read more
Facebook and Microsoft are winning plaudits from security researchers for launching an initiative to offer bounties to bug hunters who discover and report vulnerabilities in widely used products.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 08 Nov | Read more
The Edward Snowden saga continues to serve up valuable lessons on the dangers posed to enterprise data by insiders with privileged access to systems and networks. The latest lesson involves the risks of allowing password sharing among employees.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 08 Nov | Read more
Government and industry need to overcome significant challenges, including those related to privacy and security, before commercial drone aircraft can be safely allowed over U.S. airspace, the FAA said Thursday.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 08 Nov | Read more
A unique effort to crowdsource a security audit of the popular TrueCrypt open source encryption software appears to be going viral three weeks after it was launched by two U.S. based researchers in response to concerns that the National Security Agency may have tampered with it.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 07 Nov | Read more
The U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee Thursday voted to back a "spying reform" bill that critics contend codifies and extends the National Security Agency's controversial phone metadata collection practices.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 01 Nov | Read more
Two of the contractors involved in developing the Affordable Care Act healthcare exchanges have had fairly serious data security issues, a Computerworld review of publicly available information has found.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 23 Oct | Read more
The anger expressed by French officials following revelations that the U.S. National Security Agency gathered data on millions of phone calls involving French citizens appears misplaced considering reports of the country's own record of domestic and international surveillance.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 22 Oct | Read more
Data released by the presiding judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court suggest that the secret court is tougher on government requests for wiretaps on foreign terrorism suspects than had been generally assumed.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 18 Oct | Read more