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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has the authority to take action against companies that fail to protect customer data, an appeals court ruled Monday.
For companies like the dating site Ashley Madison or the health insurer Anthem, financial loss, customer anger and professional embarrassment aren
When the U.S. Senate returns in September, one of its priorities will be to pass so-called
At the DarkReading News Desk, live from Black Hat, industry experts Dan Kaminsky, Richard Bejtlich, Katie Moussouris, Paul Kurtz, and Rod Beckstrom talked about how government is hurting and could be helping infosec.
In the build up to the 2016 US election, both Democratic and Republican presidential hopefuls are talking about cybersecurity
When we wrote about the intermediary liability provisions in a reported May 2015 leak of the Intellectual Property chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) last month, we hadn't actually seen the text. But thanks to the publication of that leak by Knowledge Ecology International yesterday and today, we now have a far better understanding of the current state of play
Interpol has just completed its first training course designed to help police officers to use and understand the Darket. The five-day course was held in Singapore, and attended by officers from Australia, Finland, France, Ghana, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Netherlands, Singapore, Sri Lanka and Sweden. According to Interpol, the next course will be held in Brussels.
In a joint operation that included law enforcement agencies from 20 countries, the infamous Darkode hacking forum has been taken down. Darkode, an ill-famed meeting place for top level hackers, was notorious for its though registration process which granted access only to users that could prove they were professionals at their craft, and had tricks and software to share or sell to others.
The underground world of computer hackers has been so thoroughly infiltrated in the US by the FBI and secret service that it is now riddled with paranoia and mistrust, with an estimated one in four hackers secretly informing on their peers, a Guardian investigation has established.
The FBI communicated with Hacking Team over the possible use of surveillance tools to track down a Tor-using target, emails reveal. As discovered by Hacker News, the cache of emails belonging to Hacker Team but now hosted on Wikileaks reveals a number of interesting conversations allegedly between the FBI and surveillance company.
A Vietnamese national was sentenced to 13 years in prison for hacking into U.S. businesses
The FBI is one of the clients who bought hacking software from the private Italian spying agency Hacking Team, which was itself the victim of a recent hack. It
After a tumultuous couple of years of exchanging accusations and expressing distrust over cyberespionage and spying
Peiter Zatko, a respected computer security researcher better known by the nickname Mudge, says he
Do you need to get a security clearance for your new job? Don't hold your breath. The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) announced it is temporarily suspending its Electronic Questionnaires for Investigations Processing (E-QIP) system. This is the web-based program used to complete and submit security background investigation forms.
Two stories this week underscore the federal government
A row has broken out over claims that Russian and Chinese have reportedly decrypted files of NSA leaker Edward Snowden, identifying British and US secret agents in the process.
The data breach that recently hit the US government's Office of Personnel Management, in which personnel records for millions of federal workers were swiped, is worse than first feared, sources claim.
The massive hack at the Office of Personnel Management showed not just room for improvement but a lack of very basic security fundamentals -- and expertise.
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