Putin censorship

Putin Signs Nationwide Internet Censorship Into Law

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a bill to create a separate Russian national internet. The legislation is primarily focused on establishing an autonomous national...
Adam Levin on TicToc

Adam Levin Discusses Mobile Banking and Security with TicToc

Adam Levin was featured on a short video on TicToc by Bloomberg, where he discussed the trade-offs between security and convenience for mobile banking...
GAO report on identity theft

The Government Claims a Private Sector Fail, But It Just Doesn’t...

The Government Accountability Office recently released a report that analyzed the results as well as the relative effectiveness of the identity theft services, including insurance, provided to...

What This Report on Cyber Risk Gets Wrong

The Marsh brokerage unit of Marsh and McLennan recently announced a new evaluation process called Cyber Catalyst designed to determine the usefulness of enterprise cyber...
Facebook Multibillion Dollar Fine

Facebook Braces for Multibillion Dollar Fine

Facebook announced that it was preparing for a massive fine from the Federal Trade Commission for its mishandling of user privacy. The fine could...

French Government App Shows Difficulties with Secure Communications

A messaging app released by the French government to secure internal communications has gotten off to a troubled start. Tchap was released in beta earlier...
EU Biometric database

EU To Build Massive Biometric Database

The European Union’s parliament voted to create a biometric database of over 350 million people. The Common Identity Repository, or CIR, will consolidate the data...
Facebook "upload"

Facebook Acknowledges “Unintentional” Harvesting of Email Contacts

Facebook announced that it “unintentionally” harvested the email contacts of 1.5 million of its users without their consent. The social media company automatically uploaded the...
NYCWiN

NYC Wireless Network Outage Raises Questions About Effectiveness, Transparency

A technical glitch took down a wireless network used by New York City’s municipal government, raising serious questions about security and reliability of operational...
Disney Fox Merger

The One Word No One Is Talking About in the Disney-Fox...

On March 20, The Walt Disney Company completed its purchase of 21st Century Fox. The acquisition added huge properties like The Simpsons and National...