Cybersecurity

The forces governing business today might just come down to understanding the difference between “weapon” and “tool.”

The ransomware is linked to a leaked vulnerability originally kept by the National Security Agency.

So says Stripe CEO Patrick Collison on the latest episode of Recode Decode.

Friendly reminder: Always update your software!

An official at the Department of Homeland Security says they’ve received no confirmed reports that critical infrastructure has been affected.

The new effort orders a host of studies and seeks the tech industry’s help.

Five percent of the accounts tweeting #MacronGate make up 40 percent of Tweets.

This could make it even harder for Europe and Silicon Valley to trust the U.S. government.

Protect yourself from hackers.

Researchers took complete control over two of the drones.

“We have to be careful not to overstate the nature of the conflict here.”

Ordinary Germans are taking Europe’s worst immigration crisis into their own hands — and facing imprisonment.

OPM has just admitted that 5.6 million fingerprint records have been stolen, five times the number previously acknowledged.

Ashley Madison’s hackers may have been disgruntled insiders.

Hackers appear to have released data on users of the controversial cheaters’ dating site Ashley Madison.

After security researchers demonstrated they could hack into a Jeep Cherokee from miles away, its manufacturer is upgrading the vehicle’s software.

Hackers can gain access to the internal networks of late-model vehicles, then tamper with the brakes and transmission.

The attackers were looking for employment records for the federal government.

The National Security Agency has at least two other legal grounds for collecting Americans’ private information.

The Senate has passed legislation renewing controversial provisions of the Patriot Act while imposing significant new restrictions on government surveillance.

What hasn’t expired (most of it), what has (a few parts), and whether the government has less surveillance power now.

Other members of Congress did a lot more to build a consensus to rein in the National Security Agency.

The Senate is moving forward with compromise legislation called the USA Freedom Act.

The Senate refused to extend the NSA’s mass surveillance of phone records by even a single day.

Edward Snowden cares about transparency so much he answered a question about John Oliver’s penis.

Thanks in part to a filibuster by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), three controversial provisions of the Patriot Act are going to expire on Sunday evening.

The senator wants to shut down a controversial NSA program that collects every American’s phone records.

The legislation could end the National Security Agency’s practice of spying on every American’s phone records.

The ruling will intensify debate in Congress about whether to reauthorize key provisions of the Patriot Act that expire at the end of the month.

Fans can show their support for Rand Paul while thwarting hackers who take over their laptop cameras.

Though he’s been in the Senate only four years, Paul has managed to place himself at the center of many policy debates.

“I did this to give the American people a chance to decide for themselves the kind of government they want to have.”

Congress has ignored years of warnings about the need for better laws to catch fraudulent tax returns.

The US has never claimed responsibility, but the House Homeland Security chair just hinted it may have been a US cyber response to the Sony hacks.

Part of this scandal is mainly optics. But part of it was a real security breach that, even now, Clinton doesn’t seem to fully realize.

Building a homebrew email system makes it more vulnerable to attacks from foreign governments.

He wants a fairer world for artists and songwriters