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Ashkan Soltani, chief technologist of the Federal Trade Commission, and commissioner Terrell McSweeny spoke with Passcode while in Las Vegas for the Black Hat and DEF CON hacker conferences.

At the DEF CON hacker conference, Kustodian CEO Chris Rock demonstrated how fraudsters could artificially ‘kill’ someone for a profit or prank due to vulnerabilities in most countries’ death registration processes.

Security professionals have long overlooked Border Gateway Protocol, one of the most insecure parts of Internet infrastructure. But this year it was the subject of three talks at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas.

The Deputy Homeland Security Secretary urged attendees of the Black Hat conference not to let the massive government breach foil plans for improving information sharing about cybersecurity threats between the private sector and the government. 

The upstart social media site launched an ad campaign on Facebook this summer to draw attention to online targeting and promote itself as an ad-free network. Yet, experts have questions about Ello's own privacy practices and safeguards.

At this week’s Black Hat security conference, researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek said hacking a reporter’s car on a highway – which some called needlessly reckless – was the only real way to effect change.

Security researcher Colby Moore plans to demonstrate this week at the Black Hat security conference how to intercept and even fake location-tracking satellite signals. The vulnerability could give thieves new ways to steal valuable cargo.

Even if Beijing was responsible for breaches that exposed sensitive data on millions of Americans, a diplomatic or economic response only distracts from the US government's most pressing problem: bolstering security measures to foil the next attack.

Tech entrepreneurs are seizing on the new attention to digital privacy and finding customers around the world in search of more secure tools for online communication.

At a conference famous for its hackers, one of the most popular events requires no technical skill whatsoever. Rather than breaking into computers, contestants try to trick companies' well-meaning employees to give out valuable information. 

Passcode was the exclusive media partner at an event on economic espionage hosted by the Atlantic Council think tank. Here’s what we learned.

In advance of his presentation at the Def Con conference in Las Vegas, Passcode spoke with Schrenk about the insider information he's paid to glean from the open Internet – and how companies can better protect themselves from having their inside plans exposed or used against them by competitors.

Join Passcode and the Atlantic Council's Cyber Statecraft Initiative for a discussion on new ideas on commercial cyber espionage and intellectual property theft on Wednesday, June 29 from 4 to 5:30 pm.

On the Cybersecurity Podcast, HackerOne's Chief Policy Officer Katie Moussouris discusses ways to incentivize hackers to report security problems and Brunswick Group's Siobhan Gorman reveals the "golden rule" of breach disclosures. 

Bishop Fox researcher Dan Petro and senior security associate Oscar Salazar plan to demonstrate how an attacker can break into the CompuSafe Galileo next week at the Def Con security conference. 

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The newly discovered flaw affects software found in Android devices dating back to 2010. Even though Google has released a fix, that won't help Android users who still rely on operating systems the company no longer supports. 

The life and uncertain future of Adobe’s troubled Flash Player.

Law enforcement’s argument today is just as flawed now as it was in the 1990s. We cannot bend software or cryptography to our will – technology is science, not magic. 

Export restrictions classifying certain cybersecurity technology as arms caused industry outrage.