Political Scientists Examine Cyberattacks Implications On Human Psyche

A study from scientists at the University of Haifa, Israel found an increase in participants’ levels of cortisol, the stress hormone when they saw simulated cyberattacks on computers and mobile phones.

Supply Chain Attacks Are Effective Method To Infect Businesses With Malware

Supply chain attacks are an effective way to distribute malicious software to target organizations.

Cybersecurity Is ‘A Battle of Innovation As Attack Surfaces Grow’

Watch Cisco Chief Security and Trust Officer John N. Stewart and David Ulevitch, Vice President and General Manager of Cisco’s Security Business Group discuss key insights and findings from the Cisco 2017 Annual Cybersecurity Report.

Lawmakers Introduce ECPA Reform on Privacy & Fourth Amendment Safeguards On Digital Data

On July 27, Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) introduced the ECPA Modernization Act of 2017, a bill to reform the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 (ECPA). Among many things, the bill requires that the government and law enforcement obtain a warrant before it can access emails, geolocation information, and other sensitive […]

Big Data & Society

The commentary raises political questions about the ways in which data has been constituted as an object vested with certain powers, influence, and rationalities.

Paper ‘Rethinks’ Privacy Self-Management and Data Sovereignty for Individual Control of Big Data

The paper explores how data-protection legal regimes rooted on principles of individual control have been challenged with the rise of large data collection and processing in the rapidly evolving digital environment.

A Brief History of Information Privacy Law

By Daniel Solove George Washington University Law School This book chapter, originally written in 2006 and updated in 2016, provides a brief history of information privacy law, with a primary focus on United States privacy law. It discusses the development of the common law torts, Fourth Amendment law, the constitutional right to information privacy, numerous […]

New Research Reveals Top Five Impediments to Cybersecurity Framework Implementation

The top five impediments to cybersecurity framework implementation were reported as follows: 1) Lack of trained staff; 2) Lack of necessary tools to automate controls; 3) Lack of budget; 4) Lack of appropriate tools to audit continuous effectiveness of controls; and 5)
Lack of integration among tools

7 Reasons Privacy Matters to College Students

Privacy is important to college students for several reasons. Privacy is one’s autonomy to manage digitized information after it’s no longer used for it’s initial and primary purpose. This is important to ensure data integrity and proper use.

Cybersecurity Fundamentals

The severity of today’s advanced cyber attacks is a reality. Understanding these attacks, how they work, what they effect, and what’s at risk, is imperative to protecting against them. In the following cyber security fundamental modules, learn everything you need to know – from the anatomy of a cyber attack to the cost of a data breach.