Proposed bill would make DOD tell Congress when 'special cyber operations' are taking place

Formal talks between governments and tech companies are taking place as European countries ratchet up their calls for encryption backdoors.

A new research report authored by the Citizen Lab shows that hackers with suspected ties to the Russian government play a vital part in international disinformation campaigns.

Securing the connected, smart and increasingly autonomous cars of tomorrow against hackers and online criminals will only get harder, warns the Cloud Security Alliance.

The Trump administration has concerns about a proposed reform of the policy process the U.S. government uses when deciding how to handle newly discovered software vulnerabilities known as zero days, said White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Rob Joyce.

Turns out 'EternalBlue' was a good name for the tool that could cause massive headaches for enterprises in the coming years.

The nation's top cyberwarrior bluntly told a House panel Tuesday that it would take a 16 percent increase in U.S. Cyber Command's budget to separate it from the NSA and become a full-fledged combatant command, as lawmakers want.

Witnesses from several federal agencies reported on progress in the reduction of social security number use in the face of increasing hacking and data breach threats.

U.S. Army cyber warriors have gotten better at countering ISIS’ digital operations over the last six months, according to Lieutenant General Paul Nakasone, commanding general of Army Cyber Command.

President Trump's budget proposal, unveiled Tuesday, would boost spending on the Department of Homeland Security's 24-hour digital-attack watch center by almost $50 million and more than double the funding for a governmentwide online security tools program to $279 million.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced the deal, which involved 47 states and is described as the largest multi-state breach agreement in U.S. history.

Symantec said it has discovered "strong links" between WannaCry ransomware and the so-called Lazarus Group.

Dan Coats' assessment reports significant progress on the cyber front between the world's two biggest economies.

Federal cybersecurity and privacy protections for children are not keeping up with the burgeoning data collection engaged in by "smart" toys and online games, Sen. Mark Warner said in asking the Federal Trade Commission if the law needs to be changed.

A Ukrainian member of a hacker gang that stole advance copies of electronic press releases from newswire companies got two-and-a-half years in prison for his role in the insider trading scam, which prosecutors say netted about $30 million.

Op-Ed: The leak of NSA exploits is not the worst that could happen — and trying to reform the policy process the U.S. government uses to decide which vulnerabilities to reveal and patch will not make things better.

"Athena" is malware created by a military contractor and used by the CIA.

Storm clouds are rising over the U.S. government's policy on software flaw disclosure after the massive WannaCry infection spread using a cyberweapon developed by the NSA, and even former agency leaders say it might be time to take a fresh look at the Vulnerability Equities Process.

Private sector intelligence firm Intel 471 has discovered some evidence that adds to the probability that North Korea-based hackers were involved in WannaCry.

A new bipartisan bill aims to add transparency to the Vulnerabilities Equities Process.

The competition between the dozen-plus components was "good natured and healthy."