Dennis Fisher talks with former White House cybe
r security adviser Howard Schmidt about the need for a cyber security czar, the rise of cybercrime and how to fix federal cyber security.
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A joint letter from some of Washington D.C.’s leading minds in the areas of defense and diplomacy is urging Congress to pass a cyber security bill in some form this year, saying that the U.S. is urgently in need of a new policy and ill-prepared for cyber attacks.
The White House revealed today a set of initiatives it plans to use as part of its public-private partnership to combat increasingly disruptive networks of infected computers known as botnets.
A French data privacy watchdog is raising alarms about Google’s data collection practices and has given the Internet search giant a little over two weeks to explain the way it handles the information of its users.
“Patents against innovation”. Sounds as paradoxical as “bees against honey”, “hamburger patties against buns”, “students against sex” or “rock ...
Fostering knowledge exchange among different generations of security researchers is maybe one of the best traits of a good security conference. Judging by its attendance, NoSuchCon can easily claim to...
Olga Rumyantseva began her 7 Volcanoes expedition in Antarctica as the first Russian woman to climb Mount Sidley. Mount Sidley (4,285 m) is the highest and most imposing of the five volcanic mountai...
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