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- Event: "The Three T's of the Digital Economy"
Technology has profoundly and fundamentally changed the way we communicate, collaborate, trade and conduct business in a way never imagined before.
- Facebook's plan to train a new generation of cybersecurity pros
The social media giant is making its 'Capture the Flag' security challenge publicly available to encourage high schools and colleges to use gaming as a way of training hackers.
- How much is a security flaw worth? An inside look into Yahoo’s bug bounty program
As companies try to balance the need to be transparent with outside researchers while protecting their own sensitive business information, the often opaque bug valuation process can be controversial.
- Hard lessons for Energy Dept., power sector after Ukraine hack
At a Passcode event Thursday, Deputy Secretary of the Department of Energy Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall said the unprecedented cyberattack in Ukraine provides valuable lessons for the US power industry.
- Yes, your encrypted WhatsApp messages are still secret
But security researchers say that bad guys might be able to impersonate you on WhatsApp and Telegram by exploiting a flaw in the backbone of global cellphone networks.
- Can IBM's Watson outsmart hackers?
IBM says that organizations can bolster cybersecurity using the same skills that made its supercomputer a "Jeopardy!" champ.
- Event: Guarding the grid
How vulnerable is the North American power grid to cyberattacks? Join Passcode and panel experts via live stream on May 12 to explore that question.
- Federal, state lawmakers move to curb police use of cellphone trackers
Congressional lawmakers have introduced two bill that would regulate how police use technology to surveil cellphone use, following similar efforts in at least a dozen states.
- Why GPS is more vulnerable than ever
The space-based navigation and timing system faces a growing risk of attack. But there is a simple solution.
- Influencers oppose expanding federal hacking authorities
Nearly two-thirds of Passcode’s Influencers said US judges should not be able to issue search warrants for computers located outside their jurisdictions.
- Google shakes up antivirus industry
For more than a decade, Google's VirusTotal has given antivirus companies the ability to detect malware and share information about new viruses. But in a sweeping change meant end 'abuse' of the system, it is limiting access to the widely used database.
- Turning information security pros into cybersecurity change agents
The backbone of the information security industry can be unleashed to help solve cybersecurity’s toughest problems.
- Opinion: Why we shouldn't reward cybercriminals
Paying ransoms to cybercriminals who hijack computers only encourages the scourge of ransomware, which organizations and individuals can prevent by simply backing up their data.
- Max Schrems: Privacy Shield won't protect Europeans from surveillance
The European activist whose case against Facebook led to a transatlantic rift over privacy regulations is forming a new data protection watchdog.
- Can White House, tech startups overcome gun lobby resistance to 'smart guns'?
Despite fierce resistance from groups such as the National Rifle Association – and safety and privacy concerns about the technology – many gun owners appear open to technology the Obama administration and many tech entrepreneurs say will reduce firearm deaths.
- Will artificial intelligence revolutionize cybersecurity?
With criminal hackers becoming more effective at breaking into computer systems, cybersecurity researchers, government agencies, and academics are looking to artificial intelligence to detect – and fight – cyberattacks.
- Will emotions be hackable? Exploring how cybersecurity could evolve
At a Passcode event, the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity at the University of California, Berkeley unveiled a series of scenarios exploring the various alternate futures of the Internet.
- Thousands of New Yorkers named as apparent Islamic State targets
An online group claiming Islamic State ties threatened 3,600 New Yorkers and distributed their personal information last week on a secure messaging app.
- Dutch art project exposes extent of surveillance, tests limits of law
The arts collective known as SETUP built a detailed catalog of the population in the Netherlands based on open data sources. The information it collected proved so revealing that making it public would violate privacy laws.
- Event: Cybersecurity futures 2020
What does the future hold for the Web? Join Passcode, UC Berkeley, and some of the country's leading policymakers, hackers, and creative thinkers to discuss the alternate futures for cybersecurity and the Internet in 2020 and beyond.