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Gemalto’s Breach Level Index shows finance, retail making great strides in digital protection while many companies lag in defending data through encryption.

Since Internet adoption accelerated in the 1990s, the US has proven it can successfully strike adversaries online, but in doing so we've ushered in a dangerous – and unpredictable – new military era.

On this episode of The Cybersecurity Podcast, New America's Peter Singer and Passcode's Sara Sorcher interview Michael Hayden, a former NSA and CIA director, and Federal Trade Commissioner Julie Brill. 

Digital rights group Fight for the Future is organizing at least 30 rallies Tuesday at Apple Stores and the FBI headquarters to support Apple's refusal to aid the FBI in accessing an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters. 

As the standoff between Apple and the US government over unlocking an iPhone intensifies, the Digital Equilibrium Project is setting out to find the right balance between consumer privacy safeguards and national security interests. 

An Irish mobile security firm detected sophisticated systems designed to tap into the backbone of the global cellphone networks and surveil calls, texts, and location data. 

To find the right balance between privacy and national security, we should focus on solutions that include responsible government involvement and don't rest on Apple's current marketing strategy. That way we can forge lasting privacy protections.

Internet goliaths and governments are hoovering up your data in a golden age of surveillance. Join us in Austin to see how Americans and Europeans are looking at their digital lives -- and learn how to keep the Internet a free, open place.  

Frustrated by Apple's refusal to comply with a court order demanding it help the FBI access the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino shooters, the Justice Department filed a new motion on Friday to force the company to act. 

As the world’s largest tech company goes head-to-head with the US government, 60 percent of Passcode’s pool of digital security and privacy experts who took the survey sided with Apple.

Many cybersecurity experts say that older iPhones such as the one the FBI recovered from the San Bernardino terrorist attack – and wants Apple's help to unlock – are already hackable.

Republican candidates are lockstep in their views that Apple should abide by a court order and help the FBI bypass the security features on an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters.

Apple's showdown with the FBI over access to the San Bernardino, Calif., shooter's iPhone might seem like a potential blow to privacy, but it also shows that privacy may not be dead after all.

Security and privacy experts say a lot is riding on the outcome of a federal court order to bypass security functions on an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters, which would require Apple to build what CEO Tim Cook calls a ‘dangerous’ backdoor.

Popular blogging platform WordPress is the latest in a growing number of sites that are enabling website encryption to protect their users.

Popular blogging platform WordPress is the latest in a growing number of sites that are enabling website encryption to protect their users.

President Obama's Cybersecurity National Action Plan rightly aims to make digital security a higher priority. But Washington needs to work more with states and cities to boost awareness of cyberthreats and the adoption of best practices.

French data regulators have given Facebook three months to stop transferring data on French users to the US and to refrain from tracking nonusers.

Excerpts from a talk with Adam Segal, Sharon Hom, Michael Sulmeyer, and Lobsang Gyatso Sither.

Anyone seeking to keep their data hidden could use hundreds of encryption services offered by companies outside the US if Washington compels tech companies to decrypt communications.