University of Sussex researchers have developed a more energy-efficient alternative to transmit data that could potentially replace Bluetooth in mobile phones and other tech devices. With more and more of us owning…
Quantum advantage is the milestone the field of quantum computing is fervently working toward, where a quantum computer can solve problems that are beyond the reach of the most powerful non-quantum, or…
Ransomware criminals continue to make hay despite increased government efforts worldwide to clamp down on the ecosystem. What’s next? Last week, the U.S. financial services division of China’s biggest bank, the state-owned…
Law enforcement has been buying sensitive personal data for use in investigations, but these purchases likely violate the Fourth Amendment. The United States lacks a comprehensive data privacy statute, and most states…
OCR Settles with Business Associate in attack affecting over 200,000 individuals Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced a settlement under the Health…
When the news stories broke about the leaks by Edward Snowden in the summer of 2013, I was serving my first days as the acting secretary at the Department of Commerce, where…
Thousands of information technology workers contracting with U.S. companies have for years secretly sent millions of dollars of their wages to North Korea for use in its ballistic missile program, FBI and…
Knowing How Technology and Artificial Intelligence Have—and Have Not—Affected Jobs in Recent Decades Offers Insight into How They Could Affect the Future of Work No matter how helpful it is, technology has…
By some counts, the “Crypto Wars” have been going on for a half century. Starting in the 1970s with claims that publication of cryptographic research would endanger national security, and continuing over whether the…
The Israel-Palestine conflict is likely to play out with equal intensity in the cyber arena. Experts have warned of rising instances of intelligence hacking and grid disruptions, that would affect allied nations…
