"We're going to have to find a way to address the interests of other states to ... find common ground," Secretary of State John Kerry says. "We're just going to have to dig into it a lot deeper. I don't have a magic silver bullet to throw at you here today."
By hacking the website of the United States Sentencing Commission, the hacktivist collective Anonymous is blaming the U.S. government for the suicide of Internet activist Aaron Swartz.
Some critics feel the Obama administration is giving the Department of Homeland Security too much authority on leading cybersecurity initiatives. DHS's deputy undersecretary for cybersecurity explains why he thinks that view is wrong.
The FFIEC has issued proposed risk management guidance for the use of social media. Find out about the key recommendations, and why experts say the guidance could prove valuable to banking institutions.
"This is a business that should have known better," U.K. Deputy Information Commissioner David Smith says. "There's no doubt in my mind that they had access to both the technical knowledge and the resources to keep this information safe."
The proposal, in the form of a bill, lays out a framework that can balance the needs and concerns of government and the private sector and keep Americans safe, says Sen. Tom Carper, one of the measure's chief sponsors.
Hacktivists on Jan. 22 threatened more DDoS attacks against U.S. banks and claimed they recently hit three institutions. Despite banks' improvements in staving off online outages, the longevity of the attacks is concerning, experts say.
Sharing information about physical and cyber threats needn't be segregated under the U.S. federal government's National Strategy for Information Sharing and Safeguarding, says Kshemendra Paul, who manages the implementation of the strategy.
It's not malware, crime rings or hacktivists. What, then, are among the threats that concern security leaders most? CISO Tom Newton offers new insight on today's top threats and strategies to combat them.
As the Zaxby's restaurant breach investigation begins, the high-profile point-of-sale breach involving Subway restaurants has ended in a prison sentence for one of the four accused Romanian fraudsters.
ENISA, the European Union cyber-agency, is out with its first-ever Threat Landscape report. What are the emerging threats and vulnerabilities, and how should organizations globally respond to them?
The idea of the U.S. federal government and industry jointly developing IT security best practices will do little to help critical infrastructure operators defend against cyber-risk, says Business Roundtable Vice President Liz Gasster.
The failure to pass privacy legislation in the U.S. hasn't stopped regulatory agencies from taking matters into their own hands - a pattern that will continue throughout 2013, says a panel of attorneys.
Gov. Nikki Haley devoted nearly 10 percent of her State of the State address to cybersecurity, responding to public outrage over a breach of South Carolina's tax system that exposed the records of nearly 4 million taxpayers.
The Gozi Trojan variant known as Prinimalka is expected to target 30 banking institutions in spring 2013. Now McAfee researcher Ryan Sherstobitoff says new research sheds light on how to prepare.
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