Kaspersky Lab is always working to develop new technologies for protecting critical computer systems from cybercriminals. In July, I had the opportunity to represent Kaspersky at a symposium sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), focused on the national Cybersecurity Framework in the U.S., a document that has the potential to define the standards for protecting critical infrastructure for years to come.
As security experts and cryptographers continue to debate and discuss the implications of the revelations of the NSA’s capabilities against various encryption protocols and systems, some of the larger Internet companies are taking steps to protect their users’ data against the new threat. Google, which has been in the middle of many of the conversations […]
Following the lead of Google, Twitter and other major Internet companies, Yahoo has issued its first transparency report, revealing that it received more than 12,000 requests for user data from the U.S. government in the first half of 2013. The company disclosed user content in nearly a third of those requests. The data released by […]
In response to a lawsuit by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Department of Justice is preparing to release a trove of documents related to the government’s secret interpretation of Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act.
New documents leaked by Edward Snowden quantify the resources supporting an extensive intelligence community crypto-cracking program.
Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso discuss the big stories of the last couple of weeks, including the Syrian Electronic Army’s attacks against the registrar for the New York Times and Twitter, and the release of Facebook’s first transparency report.
A spate of known cyberespionage groups have been using the G20 Summit as a lure for new waves of attacks, and security researchers say one of the groups is likely the same one that was responsible for the attack on the New York Times earlier this year.
Vermont’s Norwich University secured another round of funding – $9.9 million in federal contracts – for cybersecurity research this week.
Newly declassified documents released in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by the EFF show that the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in 2011 declared that the National Security Agency’s techniques for collecting upstream Internet communications was unconstitutional and illegal.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last week issued a series of guidelines regarding the regulation of radio frequency (RF) technology in medical devices, moves that if put into practice, could eventually help shore up the increasingly vulnerable medical device security world.
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