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…
The Hamas- Israel conflict entered cyberspace with hacker groups supporting either side launching cyber-attacks with an aim to sow confusion or alarm. Pro-Hamas hacking groups launched dozens of DDoS attacks against government…
Intelligence gathering is likely motive in campaign targeting a variety of sectors. A previously unknown advanced persistent threat (APT) group used custom malware and multiple publicly available tools to target a number…
Locally run large language models (LLMs) may be a feasible option for extracting data from text-based radiology reports while preserving patient privacy, according to a new study from the National Institutes of…
A team of Cornell computer scientists has been awarded a $3 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the research and development arm of the U.S. Department of Defense,…
The FBI issued a public service announcement warning of a significant increase in ‘phantom hacker’ scams targeting senior citizens across the United States. “This Phantom Hacker scam is an evolution of more…
