The Thin Border Between Privacy and Security

Digital rights and privacy advocates are urging a court of appeals to require law enforcement agents at the U.S. border to obtain warrants when they want to search someone’s digital device.

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Washington Has Had Enough Of Your Terrible IoT Devices

A new bill introduced in the Senate this week has the potential to make some actual progress on IoT security by using the rather large checkbook of the federal government as the motivating force.

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Dialing back the crazy on hack back law

Changes to a proposed law would dial back the crazy on efforts to let breached firms ‘hack back’ against their assailants.

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19th Hole: On the Eve of China Summit, State Sponsored Hacks and Data Theft are still Big Problems

On the eve of a high-profile meeting between China’s President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump, a new report underscores the continued scourge of Chinese spying on- and theft from U.S. firms.

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Offensive Active Defense: The Bad, the Worse, and the Outright Dangerous

There are bad ideas and then there are really, really bad ideas.

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A Cause for Hope: Trump’s Executive Order on Cyber

The new President has drawn ire for executive orders on immigration and the environment. A draft of his cybersecurity order, however, makes a heck of a lot of sense.

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Silent Epidemic: Data Theft has become a Public Health Crisis

One in four Americans was the victim of data theft, but policy makers can’t find the spirit to act.

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Making Elections Critical Infrastructure Sends Clear Message to Adversaries

The decision by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to designate election infrastructure as critical infrastructure significantly extends federal protection of voting systems.

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The Folly of Encryption Backdoors

In the aftermath of the election, many people in the security and privacy communities have expressed renewed concerns about the possibility the federal government might again try to implement backdoors or otherwise weaken encryption. It will likely be months before we see any movement on that front, but for now, a new report from the European Union’s information security agency says in no uncertain terms that backdoored encryption is bad for users and undermines the security of the network for everyone.

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Big Change Coming to Government Hacking Powers

In two weeks, the federal government will gain significant new authority to perform remote searches of devices anywhere in the country, with a single warrant. The new power will go into effect on Dec. 1, and though Congress has the ability to prevent that from happening, it’s looking less and less likely that they will.

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