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- Opinion: DNC hack requires swift, forceful response from Washington
President Obama and other Western leaders need to send a strong and lasting message to Moscow that meddling in democratic institutions is off limits.
- Opinion: A better tech platform for Hillary Clinton
The 2016 Democratic Party Platform fails to offer meaningful improvements to national tech policy that would improve cybersecurity. But Americans deserve a plan that would strengthen networks, bolster security, and safeguard civil liberties.
- Opinion: How the Justice Department data-sharing plan defends privacy
The proposal updates an antiquated law so that countries can exchange electronic data as part of investigations while safeguarding Americans' privacy and promoting security.
- Pentagon aims to spark innovation by looking outside the beltway
The Department of Defense opened its second Defense Innovation Unit Experimental in Boston in hopes of working more closely with researchers and academics to sharpen its ability to confront Digital Age threats.
- It's not impossible. Digital security on the cheap
Internet users on the lower end of the income scale are especially vulnerable to malicious software because public computers and cheap cell phones are the ideal place for cybercriminals to test their new hacks.
- Experts: Obama’s color-coded rankings oversimplify cybersecurity threats
The DNC hack is a prime example of why President Obama’s new cybersecurity policy directive does not adequately account for the complex nature of the digital security threat, experts say.
- Machines v. hackers: Cybersecurity's artificial intelligence future
The US is short hundreds of thousands of information security professionals. But that gap is driving investments in artificial intelligence that may make armies of cybersecurity workers unnecessary.
- The Internet of Toys raises new privacy and security concerns for families
Passcode, the Family Online Safety Institute, and the Future of Privacy Forum hosted a discussion on kids and the connected home this week. Here are five things we learned.
- Opinion: How to talk digital privacy with kids
It may not be possible without eliciting moans and eye rolls. But the digital privacy talk is essential in an era when technology is so intimately intertwined with childhood.
- Watch: The new student privacy paradigm
Join us for a Privacy Lab talk on Wednesday, July 27 for a discussion on how the education industry is adjusting to a new student privacy paradigm.
- Watch: Kids & the connected home
Join us on Wednesday, July 20 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. for a discussion that will cover kids, connected toys and devices, and privacy.
- Podcast: 'Zero Days' director Alex Gibney on making Stuxnet a movie star
An award-winning director discusses the challenges of making a documentary about a top secret digital weapon. Officials from both countries believed to be responsible for the virus meant to slow Iran's nuclear program won't publicly acknowledge it ever existed.
- Stuxnet ushered in era of government hacking, say experts
In the new documentary "Zero Days," director Alex Gibney chronicles the rise of Stuxnet and the widespread use of cyberweapons that followed.
- Opinion: The triumph of Privacy Shield
The new data transfer pact between the US and European Union known as Privacy Shield opens the door to a new era of safe and secure digital commerce for Europeans.
- Microsoft ruling limits government access to data stored overseas
Tech advocates hailed the decision in a case over access to emails stored on data servers in Ireland as a boon for privacy rights in the Digital Age.
- Influencers: Antihacking law obstructs security research
A strong 75 percent majority of Passcode’s Influencers said a US government law used to prosecute hackers overly restricts necessary security research.
- Watch: Online communities and the future of national security
Join the Atlantic Council's Cyber Statecraft Initiative and Passcode on Thursday, July 14 for a panel discussion on the opportunities and challenges posed by disruptive technologies and self-regulating online communities.
- Opinion: A bold move in Congress to protect privacy
Members of Congress on Wednesday launched the Fourth Amendment Caucus to defend privacy in an era of increasingly pervasive surveillance.
- The hacker who makes sure 'Mr. Robot' gets it right
Cybersecurity researcher Marc Rogers is the principal hacking consultant on the hit TV show "Mr. Robot," which debuts its second season on the USA Network Wednesday.
- Opinion: The fatal flaw behind Snooper's Charter
British Prime Minister-in-waiting Theresa May is relying on public fears of terrorist attacks to push through her Investigatory Powers Bill to expand government surveillance powers.