TalkingTech
The view from the top of IT with TechWorld Editor Rohan Pearce
Cryptography Research, known for its crypto system-breaking stunts, will be at it again at the RSA Conference in San Francisco next month when it shows a way to steal encryption keys off hardware chips and smart cards.
By Ellen Messmer | 17 January, 2013 22:12
Though U.S. officials blamed Iran for an ongoing stream of distributed denial of service attacks against major U.S. banks, security experts say there's not enough evidence yet to assign blame.
By Jaikumar Vijayan | 11 January, 2013 21:26
The specter that Congress will reauthorize the controversial FISA Amendments Act of 2008 without any changes to its sweeping spying provisions is evoking cries of alarm from advocacy and privacy groups.
By Jaikumar Vijayan | 14 December, 2012 21:10
The U.S. Supreme Court refuses to hear an appeal of a lower-court court decision upholding legal immunity for telecom companies that allegedly participated in an NSA surveillance program during the last decade.
By Grant Gross | 22 October, 2012 10:12
Three years ago, when electric grid operators were starting to talk about the need to protect critical infrastructure from cyberattacks, few utilities had even hired a chief information security officer.
By Robert L. Mitchell | 05 November, 2012 16:41
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