Ohio Lawmakers Propose Legislation To Provide Businesses Data Breach Defense In Court

Ohio state legislation seeks to provide businesses with protection from lawsuits in the event of a breach under certain circumstances.

New York Cyber Task Force Recommends Strategies For ‘Building a Defensible Cyberspace’

“Offense has overwhelmed defense [leading] to a sense of helplessness . . . If we accept defense is futile because offense always wins, then we all stop trying as hard. We focus on cleanup instead of prevention.” – Jeff Moss (aka The Dark Tangent), Founder of DEF CON and the Black Hat conferences By Marilia […]

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.