cybersecurity

A recent cyberattack against the Electronic Comment Filing System (ECFS) maintained by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) reminds us that even agencies of the U.S. federal government are not immune to the dangers of cyber threats.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued and then retracted Commission-authored white papers on cybersecurity...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a final version of its...

Johnson & Johnson has issued a warning to diabetes patients and their doctors that...

The next phase in password security could be at your fingertips -- literally. Learn how scientists are turning your body into an unhackable information transmitter.

Your wearable device is tracking your hand movements, which is great if you want to know how many calories you’ve burned, but terrible if you don’t want hackers to know how to get into your bank account.

As part of it overall effort to ensure the safety of patients, the U.S....

The U.S. Department of Defense is soliciting research and development proposals for ways to...

The U.S. Department of Energy is moving to a “smart grid” model This new energy system will use digital technology to communicate and transfer energy in a more thoughtful way. The downside is that opening additional access points make the grid vulnerable to both accidental and malicious power failure. It’s possible for hackers to send false information to mislead grid operators, influencing the decisions they make about how to manage the network of electricity. One approach for securing the grid from potential cyberattacks uses game and control theory.

Parisa Tabriz’s job is to hack into Google Chrome to find security holes in...