Amazon’s Key service left some people unsettled when it was first announced, letting the company open a user’s front door remotely to give a delivery person access to drop off… Read More
[Spoiler Alert] You should watch Mr. Robot episode 6 (Eps3.5_kill-process.inc) before reading this article. Otherwise, it will spoil many of the show’s major hacks and technical details. Welcome to the… Read More
As a signals intelligence analyst in the United States Marine Corps, Solaire Sanderson was deployed twice to Afghanistan and had plans to make a lasting career out of her service.… Read More
Cyberspace has become our generation’s battlefield, replacing gunfights with hacks, and it’s up to tech companies and governments to come together and combat rampant cyberattacks, Microsoft’s President and Chief Legal… Read More
Amazon’s inventors have come up with a computer-based system that makes use musical transformations to authenticate a whole group of users — and block access if anyone strikes a false note.… Read More
I can tell from the email I’m getting — and, honestly, from friends calling me and even stopping me at church— that you still have many questions about the Equifax… Read More
Computer scientists are turning DNA into a new frontier for data storage and information processing, but a team from the University of Washington says it could become a frontier for… Read More
For more than a year, Microsoft has been working to shut down the hacking group Fancy Bear, believed to have ties to the Russian government, through what some might consider… Read More
RiskLens, a cybersecurity startup based in Spokane, Wash. that helps businesses understand how much cyberattacks could cost them, has landed a $5 million Series A round. Osage Venture Partners led… Read More
Microsoft said it has agreed to acquire Hexadite, a Boston company that automates investigations of cyberattacks and improves defenses in real time. The company, which also has a team of… Read More
Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab said it has filed complaints with regulators in Germany as well as the European Union as a whole against Microsoft, alleging the Redmond, Wash. technology… Read More
Security researchers at the University of Washington have developed a system designed to spot anomalies in cell networks that could indicate the presence of a device that can be used to… Read More
A global cyberattack using ransomware, malicious code that locks down computers and files until users pay a ransom, that began Friday morning is now up to 75,000 attacks in 99 countries,… Read More
President Donald Trump today signed a long-awaited executive order aimed at beefing up cybersecurity at federal government agencies – with a shift of computer capabilities to the cloud as a key… Read More
Context Relevant — a well-funded Seattle-area startup founded in 2012— has been flying under the radar for the past few years after its founder and CEO stepped down. Now it’s stepping back… Read More
Cybersecurity company Polyverse has raised $2 million in a new round of funding to continue building out its “moving target defense” platform. What is moving target defense, you ask? Polyverse… Read More
Cybersecurity startup Critical Informatics has been busy so far in 2017. The company Wednesday announced a flurry of moves, including a new CEO, a $3.25 million funding round, and plans… Read More
Days after it leaked hundreds of files documenting CIA hacking practices, WikiLeaks said it will work with tech companies to combat those techniques. The radical transparency organization plans to give… Read More
WikiLeaks has begun publishing thousands of documents it claims to have taken from the CIA’s Center for Cyber Intelligence. In what it called the “largest ever publication” of stolen CIA… Read More
Howard Schmidt had an incredible American life. He was cyberczar to two presidents – a Republican and a Democrat. Before that, he ran security at Microsoft, and later practically rescued… Read More
Bay Area network services company Infoblox is expanding its footprint in the Northwest by doubling the size of its Tacoma, Wash., office. Infoblox, a company that monitors DNS, DHCP and IP… Read More
BOSTON – It’s always risky for geeks to give advice to geeks, but when security experts who have worked with organizations ranging from Facebook to DARPA to the FBI are the… Read More
Microsoft today proposed a new initiative to protect citizens from unwarranted cyberattacks by governments, taking its cues from history. Speaking at the RSA Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, Microsoft President Brad Smith… Read More
After spending much of Tuesday preparing to sign an executive order aimed at improving the federal government’s cybersecurity defenses, President Donald Trump postponed the plan at the last minute, according to… Read More
In the wake of a presidential campaign marred by hacking and social-media skulduggery, President Barack Obama says America’s digital architecture will have to be fine-tuned to preserve democracy. The issue arose… Read More
President-elect Donald Trump says he’ll turn to the tech industry leaders he met with last month to help his administration come up with better measures to guard against hackers in… Read More
Alabama GOP Sen. Jeff Sessions faced a wide range of questions during today’s Senate hearing on his confirmation as attorney general, including a few that point to potential pressure points… Read More
Amazon Web Services has stealthily acquired San Diego-based cybersecurity startup Harvest.ai to bolster cloud security for its end-users, according to an investor in that company. AWS bought the company in early 2016,… Read More
The venture arms of Microsoft and Qualcomm have invested in Team8, a two-year-old Israeli creator of cybersecurity startups, in an example of major U.S. corporations getting behind Israel’s expanding cybersecurity industry… Read More
The majority of social media users don’t realize hackers can attack them simply using the power of observation. People share personal photos on social media platforms all the time. You… Read More