The Federal Trade Commission’s website just got a whole lot safer for people to peruse after the government agency said Friday that it now supports HTTPS encryption. While it used to… Read more »
China apparently wants to one-up the U.S. and the U.K. when it comes to urging technology companies to install security backdoors and break their encrypted documents and user communications in the… Read more »
It’s clear that big banks provide a lot of incentive for hackers to launch cyber attacks, given the amount of sensitive data they hold and the cash they oversee. But banks aren’t… Read more »
President Barack Obama signed an executive order on Friday designed to spur businesses and the Federal Government to share with each other information related to cybersecurity, hacking and data breaches for… Read more »
Apple CEO Tim Cook spoke before President Barack Obama at a cybersecurity summit at Stanford University on Friday, and he was able to slip a few major Apple Pay announcements into… Read more »
Among U.S. government agencies, the adoption of cloud computing hasn’t been moving full steam ahead, to say the least. Even though 2011 saw the Obama administration unveil the cloud-first initiative that… Read more »
I visualized a trove of data from MapLight about the issues on which internet companies are lobbying Congress. Here are the results of that, as well as links to the raw… Read more »
A State Department official has warned against the likes of Russia using NSA revelations as the basis for forcing web services to store citizens’ data locally. Read more »
The anti-censorship project Lantern wants give users in countries like China and Iran access to blocked websites through a distributed network of proxies. Read more »
A new presidential memorandum establishes a new baseline for the federal workforce, one that is trying to catch up to what has become the norm in the private sector: flexible work is… Read more »