Five articles you might have missed on cybersecurity
A massive internet outage affected popular sites including Twitter, Spotify and Netflix. USA Today reports that the outage resulted from an online attack.
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Who is Guarding the Grid?
In a two-month study, seven national security reporters with Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism traveled to the Pacific Northwest to determine whether disruptive attacks are possible, likely or even inevitable and whether measures being taken are sufficient to secure the nation’s power grid.
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Obama adviser seeks government-corporate partnerships to fight cyberattacks
More partnerships between the government and the industry is crucial to address significant cyber incidents.
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What’s the grade on cybersecurity?
College students often worry about good grades, making friends and avoiding the freshman 15. Now they have to worry about the possibility of their personal information being leaked by hackers.
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The future of passwords and cybersecurity
Every day, we use more and more passwords to lock information we put on the web. Fingerprints, face recognition, and your subconscious all have one thing in common: they are changing the world of passwords.
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The U.S. is arming itself in outer space
The United States is arming itself against national security threats emerging from a more crowded and more hostile outer space.
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Will biometric tracking systems at U.S. exits improve border security?
Biometric data from a person’s physical features such as fingerprinting, photos and iris scans is collected only at entry points. Nonetheless, federal agencies have yet to use biometrics for foreigners leaving the U.S. Critics say the technology is expensive, unnecessary and can pose possible cybersecurity threats.
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