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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.

The backbone of the information security industry can be unleashed to help solve cybersecurity’s toughest problems.

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.

The European activist whose case against Facebook led to a transatlantic rift over privacy regulations is forming a new data protection watchdog.

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. 

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.

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. 

An online group claiming Islamic State ties threatened 3,600 New Yorkers and distributed their personal information last week on a secure messaging app.

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.

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.

​What's likely to happen next in the ongoing debate over encryption? Join us for a Privacy Lab talk on Wednesday, April 27th.

Many of today's tech-savvy kids demonstrate the sort of curiosity that makes them ideally suited to become tomorrow's ethical hackers. The trick is teaching them how to use those instincts for good, and steering them away from the darker corners of the Internet.

With a need for 1.5 million more trained professionals in coming years, the federal government, universities, and companies are teaming up to solve the problem.

New, commercially available encryption software 'had and is having major, profound effects on our ability' to collect intelligence, 'particularly against terrorists,' James Clapper told reporters at a Monitor-hosted breakfast.

Philosophy professor Michael Lynch says that privacy violations erode individuals' rights to autonomously make their own decisions and exercise individual power.

On the latest edition of the Cybersecurity Podcast, RSA's chief strategy officer makes industry forecast and Raytheon's Jack Harrington talks about defending US networks and how to recruit new talent to the field.

The rapid rise in computer attacks that encrypt files until victims pay off cybercriminals can be avoided if organizations take necessary precautions.

Since hospitals store sensitive patient information, and often rely on outdated software and legacy computer systems, experts say they are especially susceptible to a wave of cyberattacks that encrypt data until victims pay ransoms.

Sens. Richard Burr (R) of North Carolina and Dianne Feinstein (D) of California should be stripped of their positions for introducing a bill that would endanger American digital security and privacy.