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2015 in breaches: The year digital attacks got personalGemalto鈥檚 Breach Level Index shows finance, retail making great strides in digital protection while many companies lag in defending data through encryption.
The making of America's cyberweaponsSince Internet adoption accelerated in the 1990s, the US has proven it can successfully strike adversaries online, but in doing so we've ushered in a dangerous 鈥� and unpredictable 鈥� new military era.
Podcast: Michael Hayden on why the US is safer with 'unbreakable encryption'On this episode of The Cybersecurity Podcast, New America's Peter Singer and Passcode's Sara Sorcher interview Michael Hayden, a former NSA and CIA director, and Federal Trade Commissioner Julie Brill.听
Privacy advocates plan nationwide rallies to back Apple in iPhone caseDigital rights group Fight for the Future is organizing at least 30 rallies Tuesday at Apple Stores and the FBI headquarters to support Apple's refusal to aid the FBI in accessing an iPhone used by one of the San聽Bernardino shooters.听
Coalition aims to solve privacy v. national security debateAs the standoff between Apple and the US government over unlocking an iPhone intensifies, the Digital Equilibrium Project is setting out to find the right balance between consumer privacy safeguards and national security interests.听
Network flaws expose cellphones to state surveillanceAn Irish mobile security firm detected sophisticated systems designed to tap into the backbone of the global cellphone networks and surveil calls, texts, and location data.听
Opinion: Why Apple isn't acting in the public's interestTo find the right balance between privacy聽and national security, we should focus on solutions that include聽responsible government involvement and don't rest on Apple's current marketing strategy.听That way we can forge lasting privacy protections.
Wake up, world: Freeing the Internet at South by SouthwestInternet goliaths and governments are hoovering up your data in a golden age of surveillance. Join us in Austin to see how Americans and Europeans are looking at their digital lives -- and learn how to keep the Internet a free, open place. 聽
Read DOJ's motion to compel Apple to crack the San Bernardino iPhoneFrustrated by Apple's refusal to comply with a court order demanding it help the FBI access the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino shooters, the Justice Department filed a new motion on Friday to force the company to act.听聽
Influencers: Apple should not help FBI crack San Bernardino iPhoneAs the world鈥檚 largest tech company goes head-to-head with the US government,聽60 percent of Passcode鈥檚 pool of digital security and privacy experts who took the survey sided with聽Apple.
Why Apple's pushback against the FBI isn't a technical issueMany cybersecurity experts say that older iPhones such as the one the FBI recovered from the聽San Bernardino terrorist attack 鈥� and wants Apple's help to unlock 鈥� are already hackable.
What presidential candidates are saying about the Apple v. FBI debateRepublican candidates are lockstep in their views that Apple should abide by a court order and help the FBI bypass the security features on an iPhone used by聽one of the San Bernardino shooters.
Opinion: The silver lining in the Apple v. FBI showdownApple's showdown with the FBI over access to the San Bernardino, Calif., shooter's iPhone might seem like a potential blow to privacy,聽but it also shows that privacy may not be dead after all.
Apple's opposition to FBI request sets stage for broader fight over encryptionSecurity and privacy experts say a lot is riding on the outcome of a federal court order to bypass security functions on an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters, which would require Apple to build what CEO Tim Cook calls a 鈥榙angerous鈥� backdoor.
WordPress joins movement toward HTTPS encryptionPopular blogging platform WordPress is the latest in a growing number of sites that are enabling website encryption to protect their users.- WordPress joins movement toward HTTPS encryptionPopular blogging platform WordPress is the latest in a growing number of sites that are enabling website encryption to protect their users.
Opinion: Why cybersecurity needs a grass-roots solutionPresident Obama's Cybersecurity National Action Plan rightly aims to make digital security a higher priority. But Washington needs to work more with states and cities to boost聽awareness of cyberthreats and the adoption of best practices.
France attacks Facebook data tracking, opening new front in privacy battlesFrench data regulators have given Facebook three months to聽stop聽transferring data on French users to the US and to refrain from tracking nonusers.
Exploring cybersecurity from China鈥檚 perspectiveExcerpts from a talk with Adam Segal, Sharon Hom, Michael Sulmeyer, and Lobsang Gyatso Sither.
Most encryption products far beyond reach of US law enforcementAnyone seeking to keep their data hidden could use hundreds of encryption services offered by companies outside the US聽if Washington compels tech companies to decrypt communications.
