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The U.S.–Russia Cybersecurity Pact: Just Paper
Newscom The U.S. and Russia announced the completion of a joint cybersecurity agreement, two years in the making, intended to promote international peace and security and improve cyber relations...
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Edward Snowden Dodges Cybersecurity Regulations
Guardian/Glenn Greenwald/Laura Poitras/EPA/Newscom Edward Snowden, the leaker of the National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance programs, was reportedly able to smuggle thousands of classified...
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Confronting Chinese Cyber Espionage
Newscom The U.S. and China opened high-level security and economic discussions last week in Washington, and critical cybersecurity concerns are on the agenda. The Administration’s diplomatic efforts on...
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Hacker Ring Taken Down
Newscom Last week, prosecutors announced charges against four Russians and one Ukrainian for what is being called the largest-known hacking and data theft operation to be prosecuted in the U.S. The...
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Cybersecurity: Snazzy New Chief, Same Old Regulations
Britta Pedersen/dpa/picture-alliance/Newscom On Monday morning, President Obama appointed Phyllis Schneck, a vice president at the cybersecurity firm McAfee, as the next Deputy Under Secretary of...
View ArticleSyria and Iran Could Retaliate with Cyber Attacks
With the U.S. and allies actively considering military action against the Syrian regime for reportedly using chemical weapons, the U.S. cannot ignore the possibility that Syria, and its ally Iran, will...
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“Voluntary” Cybersecurity Standards: The Threat of Regulation Looms
Newscom Recently, Federal News Radio reported that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is nearing completion of the nation’s first ever cybersecurity framework. Despite initial...
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Cyber Failures in Obamacare Exchanges: Dangerous to Your Wallet and Privacy
Yesterday marked the grand opening of the new Obamacare health insurance marketplaces, and the rollout did not go smoothly. Even more worrying is that these website errors are only the tip of the...
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Brazil’s Internet: A Showdown of Ends and Means
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff (Kena Betancur/EFE/Newscom) Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff wants to free Brazil’s Internet access from U.S. domination. Rousseff and the Brazilian government seek...
View ArticleVIDEO: South Carolina Man Reacts to HealthCare.gov Privacy Breach
On Friday evening, Tom Dougall of South Carolina had a voicemail from a stranger named Justin in North Carolina saying he received a document on HealthCare.gov with Dougall’s personal information....
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Cyber Attacks: Hopping the "Great Firewall"
Screenshot of Google’s Digital Attack Map Google’s new Digital Attack Map reveals that the U.S. experiences daily cyber attacks. Though much of the map’s real-time cyber activity is untraceable, the...
View ArticleWhen Counting Electrical Grid Threats, Count EMP
The North American Electric Power Reliability Corporation’s (NERC) latest test of the U.S. electrical grid left out an important component: testing the U.S.’s ability to withstand an electromagnetic...
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Holes in Federal Cybersecurity
Newscom Yesterday brought news that the inspector general for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has found gaps in DHS’s cybersecurity. Politico reports that, according to the IG: [T]he agency...
View ArticleRough Week for Cybersecurity
Cyber attacks can come from anywhere: a global power like China, weak and non-state actors, states like Iran or Syria, or even individual cyber criminals. And the government agencies responsible for...
View ArticleMisguided Cybersecurity Oversight
Despite multiple recently released reports detailing cybersecurity vulnerabilities within federal agencies, Congress is still trying to give the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) greater regulatory power...
View ArticleTerrorist Attack Shows Vulnerability in Critical Infrastructure
Just after midnight on April 16, 2013, someone slipped into underground tunnels and cut the phone lines running to the PG&E Metcalf power substation near San Jose, California. Then two snipers...
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Heritage's Carafano at SXSW Tech Conference: 'If You Care About Freedom, Care...
If you care about freedom and prosperity, you ought to care about cybersecurity. That’s what Heritage’s James Carafano told an audience at the South by Southwest Interactive (SXSW) conference in...
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Who's Watching You Online?
In recent years, the world has watched as Twitter and Facebook made political uprisings possible. In countries where dissidents previously had trouble making their voices heard and connecting with one...
View ArticleStudy: NIST Framework Will Harm Cybersecurity
A new report by George Mason University’s Mercatus Center finds that the Cybersecurity Framework could “ultimately undermine cybersecurity” and diminish the “spontaneous, creative sources of...
View ArticleFinancial Regulator Considers New Cybersecurity Regulations
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced an initiative last week to examine the cybersecurity of 50 security brokerages. The initiative is a detailed, high-level questionnaire that...
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