The latest coverage of the Department of Homeland Security and cyber threats around the globe.
The White House sought this week to permanently reauthorize the U.S. National Security Agency’s ability to access the telephone records of Americans.
A federal judge ruled Thursday that Georgia’s electronic voting system is defective, vulnerable to a foreign government’s hacking, and cannot be used in the 2020 elections.
A class action lawsuit against Facebook over its use of facial recognition technology may go forward, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.
Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper took office last month with a land mine waiting on his desk: the massive Pentagon “war cloud” computing contract that has left him in a no-win situation.
Health care industry leaders are calling for cybersecurity protections for patients, noting that more than 31 million medical records have been breached this year — a number that is steadily growing.
Investigators were unable to corroborate allegations that a TSA supervisor instructed air marshals to racially discriminate against passengers at Florida’s busiest airport, but they uncovered other concerns about racial profiling.
The online message board 8chan was effectively knocked offline Monday after two companies cut off vital technical services following the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, whose perpetrator was linked to the site. 8chan is known for trafficking in anonymous hate speech and incitement of hate crimes.
Canada’s view of Huawei is far different from that of the Trump administration, which sees the Chinese telecommunications giant as a potential security threat that U.S. companies and foreign governments should shun.
Capital One’s data breach has turned attention to an often-overlooked vulnerability in securing online information: cloud computing.
A hacker gained access to personal information from more than 100 million Capitol One credit applications, the bank said Monday as federal authorities arrested a suspect in the case.
Most federal agencies lack a cybersecurity risk management strategy program and are susceptible to “the loss of sensitive data or compromise of agency systems,” according to a Government Accountability Office report.
Iran launched an operation against the West this month, but not by menacing an oil tanker or targeting a U.S. drone.
Before Nazilla Akbari can check out the latest offerings on Twitter or YouTube, she scrolls through an array of icons on her smartphone, searching for the right workaround to bypass state censors.
FBI Director Christopher A. Wray echoed Attorney General William P. Barr on Thursday by calling on tech companies to help solve investigative setbacks caused by criminals using encrypted devices and messaging platforms.
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard’s presidential campaign filed a lawsuit in federal court on Thursday alleging that Google improperly suspended her online advertising account after the first Democratic presidential debate last month.
WikiLeaks reacted to Boris Johnson becoming British prime minister Wednesday by pouncing on recent comments he made relevant to the website’s jailed publisher, Julian Assange.
The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday slapped Facebook with a record $5 billion fine for mishandling consumer data, but privacy analysts and Washington lawmakers were quick to say the tech giant deserves even more punishment.
The National Security Agency announced the creation Tuesday of a new directorate designed to harmonize the NSA’s offensive and defensive operations in cyberspace.
Federal regulators have fined Facebook $5 billion for privacy violations and are instituting new oversight and restrictions on its business. But they are only holding CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally responsible in a limited fashion.
Attorney General William P. Barr said Tuesday the nation’s leading technology companies must assist law enforcement officials investigating terrorists, drug cartels and other criminal suspects using encrypted messaging apps.
U.S. Attorney General William P. Barr said Tuesday that increased encryption of data on phones and computers and encrypted messaging apps are putting American security at risk.
Equifax will pay up to $700 million to settle with the U.S. and states over a 2017 data breach that exposed Social Security numbers and other private information of nearly 150 million people.
A federal judge has chastised former special counsel Robert Mueller and Attorney General William P. Barr for stating that the Russian government was behind election year social media trolling when there is no evidence presented by prosecutors.
Russians sympathized with President Trump for trying to mend ties between the two countries but did not help him win the White House, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview released Friday.
Iranian hackers were behind an “incredible” spike in cyberattacks detected after President Trump’s withdrawal from the Iranian nuclear deal, a top Microsoft executive said Friday.
The head of the U.S. intelligence community announced the creation Friday of a new government position created to counter ongoing threats to election security.
A former National Security Agency contractor who stored two decades’ worth of classified documents at his Maryland home was sentenced Friday to nine years in prison.
Senators easily passed a bill Wednesday that would update the government’s longstanding anti-hacking law to cover attacks waged against voting machines used in federal elections.
Former Obama Defense Secretary Ash Carter on Thursday echoed concerns about Google potentially helping China’s military.
Top finance officials from the Group of Seven rich democracies are warning that cryptocurrencies like Facebook’s Libra should not come into use before “serious regulatory and systemic concerns” are addressed.
Microsoft says it has detected more than 740 infiltration attempts by nation-state actors in the past year targeting U.S.-based political parties, campaigns and other democracy-focused organizations including think tanks and other nonprofits.
FaceApp, a photo-editing program at the center of a current social media trend, responded Wednesday to concerns raised over its Russian origins.
A top Google executive refused repeatedly Tuesday to commit to a third-party audit under tough questioning from Senate Democrats on privacy and Senate Republicans on censorship and anti-conservative bias.
Facebook’s plans for a new online currency received a deeply skeptical welcome on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, as a top executive of the social media giant fielded a slew of questions about the trustworthiness and transparency of Libra, the company’s proposed private new money.
Fines imposed on WikiLeaks source Chelsea Manning were due to double Tuesday to $1,000 a day as she remains imprisoned for refusing to cooperate with federal prosecutors.
The FBI shared computer code Monday designed to counter a prolific and lucrative type of ransomware virus claiming victims in the U.S. and abroad.
Over six weeks, the vandals kept coming, knocking the school system’s network offline several times a day.
Federal prosecutors sided Friday with lawyers defending former CIA coder Joshua Adam Schulte and said he should be tried separately on charges related to WikiLeaks and child porn.
Amazon users were put on alert Friday about an online scam targeting customers ahead of the company’s annual Prime Day next week.
Presidential candidate Sen. Kamala D. Harris claimed Friday that her White House campaign is on the receiving end of a Russian effort to interfere in the 2020 race.
Over 300 U.S. mayors have signed a pact to not pay “ransomware” in the face of a wave of hacker crimes that have taken over the computer networks and frozen systems in cities across the country, but leading cybersecurity experts are wary the united front will actually discourage attacks.
President Trump told an audience of conservative social media leaders Thursday that he’ll call the heads of Facebook, Twitter and Google on the carpet in the next few weeks to confront them about “troubling bias” on their platforms.
Google contractors regularly listen to and review some recordings of what people say to artificial-intelligence system Google Assistant, via their phone or through smart speakers such as the Google Home.
The U.S. Coast Guard issued a safety alert Monday after a “significant cyber incident” raised security concerns involving the computer systems used by commercial ships.
States are enacting their own online data privacy laws, creating a hodgepodge of restrictions that telecom and tech companies increasingly are railing against.
Michael V. Hayden, the former head of both the CIA and National Security Agency, accused President Trump in an interview that aired Friday of preventing the U.S. from sufficiently safeguarding the 2020 election.
Conservative frustration with Big Tech bias bubbled over this week amid fresh evidence of behind-the-scenes political manipulation at Google, spurring calls for federal action to prevent the industry from putting its thumb on the scales of the 2020 election.
All sides agree that Russian meddling appeared to have a smaller impact on the 2018 elections than it did two years earlier.
Hackers across the country increasingly are holding hostage the data in cities’ computer networks.
Cyber spies conducting an international hacking campaign have leveraged several leaked tools likely created by the U.S. government, a security firm warned Thursday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday questioned whether the Trump administration has escalated cyberattacks against Russia’s power grid as recently reported.
Federal prosecutors sought Monday to keep former CIA software engineer and suspected WikiLeaks source Joshua Schulte subjected to strict restrictions while in custody awaiting trial.
A top tech-security conference has hacked off conservatives and free-speech advocates by disinviting Rep. Will Hurd — a black Texas Republican known for expertise on cybersecurity — as keynote speaker over his pro-life views.
Huawei’s founder said Monday that the Chinese telecom giant’s revenue will be $30 billion less than forecast over the next two years, as he compared the company to a “badly damaged plane” as a result of U.S. government actions against it.
