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Despite diverse threats and difficulty managing networks in an age of millions of connected devices, cyberdefenders are optimistic about the future, according to Tenable Network Security’s Cybersecurity Assurance Report Card.

While experts say the attack isn’t connected to recent political hacks, it highlights a troubling lack of digital security within US government organizations.

At a Passcode event in Washington, Carnegie Mellon University cybersecurity expert David Brumley said digital defenders need to attack their own systems to discover the flaws.

Lawmakers and cybersecurity experts say the Obama administration should have acted faster to retaliate against Moscow once it learned that Russian hackers tampered with the US presidential election. President Obama defended his response so far, and promises more is coming.

Perhaps the greatest power high-level executives and board members have is the ability to change the culture of security in their organizations

The scope of the breach is a harsh reminder how everyone on the web needs to be vigilant about protecting their data in an era of widespread criminal and government hacking.

Since the president-elect has rejected intelligence analysis that Russian hackers meddled in the presidential election, where is he getting advice on issues of digital security and espionage?

How can the US defend itself from cyberthreats in the next ten years? Watch a discussion with some of the authors of a cybersecurity report delivered to President Obama earlier this month. 

Now that law enforcement has more leeway to hack computers and surveil suspects due to changes in criminal procedure, Congress needs oversee these powers to protect Americans' civil liberties and privacy.

In order to beat malicious hackers, the cybersecurity community must develop innovative approaches for deploying – and automating – offensive strategies to find and fix software vulnerabilities.  

2016 has been a year of unprecedented cyberattacks. It also laid bare the need for the international community to join forces in confronting these growing global threats.

The Cybersecurity Podcast crew interviews the primary author of the US House Oversight and Government Reform Committee report looking into last year's Office of Personnel Management cyberattack.

This week privacy groups filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission alleging that the popular My Friend Cayla and I-Que Intelligent Robot dolls collected kids' personal information without consent.

After reports of "malicious cyberactivity" during the election season, Obama's top counterterrorism adviser Lisa Monaco says key stakeholders need fuller answers.

Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, and YouTube launched an effort this week to share information about terrorist-related content without threatening users' privacy. Here's how they'll do it.

What are the tools and tricks of internet tracking in the home, and why building a domestic surveillance state is worth it for one family.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration owes it to motorists to set more robust and clearer privacy standards for connected cars.

An exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act allows hackers to conduct good will research into medical devices, automobiles, and other internet-connected devices without threat of lawsuits from manufacturers. 

Explicit images of minors, which have been discovered on federal workers' computers across the government, can be gateways for criminal hackers and foreign spies. What's the best way to combat the problem? 

Congress just implicitly blessed FBI hacking on a massive scale without any consideration of the privacy rights of innocent people. And even worse, they did it through an obscure process that minimized public debate.