Hype and hysteria over the supposed “kill switch” in Sen. Joseph Lieberman’s proposed cybersecurity bill has a lot more to do with politics than with cybersecurity.
Absolute security is impossible, but NSA analyst Tony Sager says an understanding of your opponent’s craft can help you to put him out of the game – at least temporarily.
New technology is disruptive. But the State Department has decided that social networking can be used for agencies and against them, and its presence cannot be ignored, says the department's social media guru, Jared Cohen.
After a decade of preparation, NIST has released the updated "Handbook of Mathematical Functions," accompanied by its companion online version, the Digital Library of Mathematical Functions.
More than 40 bills, resolutions and amendments dealing with cybersecurity are pending in the House and Senate. Does anyone in Congress care?
There are some components of networks that even the most thorough security plans are likely to overlook. We tell you what they are.
Security experts look at cyber attacks in some popular movies from the last 30 years and find that amid all of the silliness some of the worst case scenarios are disturbingly realistic.
The growing sophistication of packaged exploit kits makes cyber crime easy and profitable, according to a new report from M86 Security.
The Conficker Working Group is a rare example of cooperation between multiple aspects of the private and public sectors to combat a cybersecurity threat, and it could represent a model for future response.
The LoveBug, or the ILOVEYOU worm, which appeared in the Philippines on May 5, 2000, and quickly spread to Asia, Europe and the United States, marks its 10th anniversary. It's still considered one of the worst worms of the computer age.
Cyber crime and espionage are growing problems, but we can take some heart in the fact that the bad guys are not supervillains, says columnist William Jackson.
Every idle thought you committed to cyberspace during the past four years now is being archived for posterity by the Library of Congress.
Use of automated monitoring and report tools will help to align FISMA compliance with best security practices that have evolved over the last eight years.
A new smart-phone app promises to remove text messages from both the sender and recipient's cell phones, reports columnist William Jackson. That raises questions about whether you really can -- or should -- do this.
A survey of the Web threat landscape in 2009 from Blue Coat Systems indicates that e-mail, the application credited with strangling the U.S. Postal Service, is being supplanted by social networking sites as a primary means of communication.