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- Cybersecurity firms need millennials — here’s how they can change to attract top talent
Professionals under 30 today will make up three quarters of the cybersecurity workforce by 2025
- What are the world’s information security professionals thinking about?
Understanding the global information security workforce is a necessary first step to growing and building the field.
- Hackers for good: A bug bounty hunter's path to America
So-called 'bug bounty' programs, which pay ethical hackers anywhere in the world for reporting security flaws, are the ticket for one Indian security researcher to study in the US.
- Privacy by design: How fashion combats surveillance
Designers, artists, and students around the world are creating accessories and clothing meant to hide wearers' identities from mass surveillance.
- Opinion: Why Washington needs more hackers
The federal government is finally beginning to embrace hackers, but it should do more put their talents to work fixing the nation's cybersecurity. Their help is sorely needed.
- Video: How to create a secure password, as told by a 12-year-old
A young New Yorker started her own business to sell secure passwords.
- Can cybersecurity boot camps fill the workforce gap?
A startup in Denver and an initiative in Chicago are using cybersecurity boot camps to quickly prepare workers to fend off digital attacks.
- How should 1 billion users respond to epic Yahoo hack?
The scope of the breach is a harsh reminder how everyone on the web needs to be vigilant about protecting their data in an era of widespread criminal and government hacking.
- When mom becomes Big Brother
What are the tools and tricks of internet tracking in the home, and why building a domestic surveillance state is worth it for one family.
- The legal exemption making life easier for ethical hackers
An exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act allows hackers to conduct good will research into medical devices, automobiles, and other internet-connected devices without threat of lawsuits from manufacturers.
- Video: A bitcoin allowance teaches spending and security
Kryptina is one of the world's youngest users of the digital currency bitcoin. Her dad gives her a bitcoin allowance as a lesson in online security and money management.
- How Social Security numbers became skeleton keys for fraudsters
The Social Security number is overused and abused by hospitals, banks, and even retailers, putting millions of Americans at risk of identity theft. But experts say it doesn't have to be this way.
- Opinion: The election's hard cybersecurity lesson
While politicians, pollsters, and the public will look for lessons in this historic presidential election, one of the biggest takeaways is everyone needs to do a better job when it comes to protecting their data.
- Video: More kids are becoming 'white hat' hackers
One striking theme from Passcode's profile of 15 hackers under 15 years old: The kids all had a strong sense of ethics – and a desire to create a safer digital future for their peers – rather than create chaos online for pranks.
- Harris vs. Trump: Where they stand on the big issues
- Intel is coming. Ohio community colleges say the state’s workers will be ready.
- CommentaryNew editor at The Christian Science Monitor
- Election week could be just as long, and fraught, as in 2020
- Israeli strikes inside Iran cross a threshold. How will Iran respond?