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Opinion: $19 billion alone won't fix Washington's cybersecurity problemSpending more on cybersecurity is a start but it's certainly no panacea. President Obama's new聽spending plans should come with policy proposals and organizational initiatives that stand in the way of protecting US networks from malicious hackers.
FDA presses medical device makers to OK good faith hackingThe Food and Drug Administration wants manufacturers to allow independent security researchers to hunt for potentially聽life-threatening vulnerabilities. So far, few companies are聽willing.
White House reveals plan to bolster American cybersecurityThe Cybersecurity National Action Plan, which will be announced Tuesday, comes as the government scrambles to improve its own cybersecurity in the wake of the massive breach on the Office of Personnel Management.
Months after Paris attack, new surveillance regime emerges in EuropeFrom more closely monitoring Europeans' travel plans to examining Internet traffic, European officials and law enforcement agencies are pushing for more surveillance measures to track potential terrorists.
Opinion: Why China needs to rein in North Korea's hackersIf China blunts North Korea's increasingly aggressive hackers, and keep them from operating on its side of the border, that would go a long way toward improving聽security on the Korean Peninsula.- Watch live: The frontiers of cybersecurity policy and lawJoin Passcode and聽the Robert Strauss Center at the University of Texas-Austin for a聽timely conference focused on the legal and policy dimensions of cybersecurity.
Opinion: How NSA reorganization could squander remaining trustAdm. Michael Rogers, director of the National Security Agency, wants to combine the agency's cyber defenders and its architects of espionage. While that may streamlines processes at the agency, it won't create more openness and trust when it's needed most.
Report: China bolsters state hacking powersAt a time when Chinese President Xi Jinping is in the spotlight for inking a landmark deal with the US barring economic espionage, a new report released Wednesday shows that he may be giving his security and intelligence agencies a larger role in helping Beijing hack foreign companies.
Opinion: Why Privacy Shield isn't impenetrableThe new arrangement between European and US negotiators to replace Safe Harbor and ensure that data continues flowing across the Atlantic may not be strong enough to withstand likely legal challenges from privacy watchdogs.
Can EU-US data pact survive without surveillance reform?While American and European negotiators reached a deal to replace the invalidated Safe Harbor data transfer agreement, the agreement may not be strong enough to satisfy European privacy advocates concerns about US spy agency snooping.
Hard lessons emerge from cyberattack on Ukraine's power gridThe ongoing investigation into a cyberattack that experts have linked to a December blackout in Ukraine reveals how vulnerable other power suppliers are to malware attacks.
Opinion: The undoing of Germany's privacy dogmaIn the wake of European terror attacks and the ongoing refugee crisis, many Germans are backing away from staunch opposition to their country's close cooperation with US spy agencies. Now, Germans are willing to accept a more reasonable balance between security and privacy.
Survey: Consumers reject companies that don't protect privacyAt Thursday鈥檚 Data Privacy Day event in Washington, Passcode joined privacy and security experts to explore US consumers' evolving attitudes about digital privacy.- Survey: Consumers reject companies that don't protect privacyAt Thursday鈥檚 Data Privacy Day event in Washington, Passcode joined privacy and security experts to explore US consumers' evolving attitudes about digital privacy.
What's the state of digital privacy in America in 2016?Half of Americans don鈥檛 trust businesses with their personal information but study shows greater transparency would build trust online.
Opinion: It's finally time to embrace Privacy by DesignOn Data Privacy Day, it's聽sobering to remember how many people have been personally affected by devastating breaches. But many of those hacks could have been prevented if companies simply employed a more than 20-year-old principle known as Privacy by Design.
Where the candidates stand on cybersecurityFrom encryption to Chinese hackers, a handy guide to Internet politics in the 2016 presidential election.
Influencers: Tech firms should do more to block extremist contentA slim majority of Passcode Influencers said that US tech companies should ramp up efforts to remove extremist content from their platforms.
Advocacy groups press for open dialogue on foreign surveillance reformIn a letter sent Wednesday, 25 human rights and privacy advocacy groups urged Congress to open a hearing on Section 702, one of the key legal mechanisms the National Security Agency relies on to carry out foreign surveillance.
Opinion: Forget about Safe Harbor. Modernize global privacy law insteadWhen聽the European Court of Justice invalidated Safe Harbor, it became clear that a single data agreement couldn't account for all the ways聽countries balance privacy, freedom of expression, and national security.
