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An extremely wide-ranging anti-terrorism law has been passed last week by the lower house of the Russian Federal Assembly (i.e. parliament), and it is widely expected to pass …

The US Customs and Border Protection agency has submitted a request to the Office of Management and Budget, asking for permission to collect travelers social media account …

The Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration has finalized the first operational rules for routine commercial use of small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS …

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the Tor Project, and dozens of other organizations are calling on citizens and website operators to take action to block a new rule …

Blockchain technologies (the technical foundation for Bitcoin) hold great potential to solve government’s long-term challenge of establishing clear rules about who has …

Since Snowden revealed that the NSA collects from Verizon phone records of US citizens on a daily basis, those who support that kind of collection have been repeatedly …

Mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets have become indispensable in our daily lives. In fact, in Q4 2015, smartphones accounted for around 75 percent of all mobile …

Reliable cyber attack attribution is currently almost impossible, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) wants to find a solution for that problem. To that …

Technavio analysts expect global government IT security spending to exceed USD 42 billion by 2020, growing at a CAGR of over 9%. “The global IT security spending in the …

The US Supreme Court has approved on Thursday several changes to the federal rules around search warrants, one of which would allow US federal law enforcement agents to …

A former Philadelphia Police Department sergeant suspected of possessing child pornography has spent seven months in a detention center without being charged of any particular …

A developer who used to work at Tor Project is the mastermind behind “Torsploit” (aka “Cornhusker”), the malware that was used by the FBI in 2012 to …