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  • Innovation How smartphones could prevent drunk driving

    Israeli researchers have developed a method that accurately gauges sobriety using smartphones, smartwatches, and fitness trackers. While the technology may push the bounds of digital privacy, it could also save lives.

  • Surveillance How The Citizen Lab polices the world's digital spies

    University of Toronto professor Ron Deibert launched The Citizen Lab in 2001 to become the 'CSI of the internet.' Since then, it has become one of the leading watchdogs for digital censorship and online suppression. 

  • Security Could US-Russia feud over hacks lead to digital detente?

    Experts have been trying for years to forge norms for how militaries around the world should operate in cyberspace. Now, tensions between Moscow and Washington over recent political breaches may energize that effort.

  • Passcode Voices Opinion: What some lawmakers still don't get about encryption

    A congressional report says encryption makes America safer. Why are these two Representatives refusing to sign on?

  • Stopping small devices from causing massive Internet disruptions

    Internet of Things devices — from Web routers to smart refrigerators — can be overcome by malware and used to affect an Internet we all rely on if simple changes aren’t made

  • Surveillance Police worldwide eye Baltimore's vast surveillance complex (+video)

    Baltimore is at the leading edge of deploying surveillance technologies. Even though its practices have raised questions about civil liberties and privacy, law enforcement agencies around the world see it as a test bed for the future of policing.

  • Security Intelligence personnel aren’t fleeing because of Trump rift

    Headhunters well-known for helping US spies find jobs in the private sector say intelligence analysts and officials, including those who specialize in cybersecurity, aren't running for the exits even though President-elect Trump has openly dismissed their findings. 

  • Security Online retailers' fake news problem

    Just as fake news circulated around the web ahead of the presidential election, bogus ads are spreading on Facebook and Twitter as a vehicle for delivering malicious software.

  • Fighting digital adversaries means knowing your network

    Despite diverse threats and difficulty managing networks in an age of millions of connected devices, cyberdefenders are optimistic about the future, according to Tenable Network Security’s Cybersecurity Assurance Report Card.

  • Security In separate attack, Russian hacker targeted US election agency

    While experts say the attack isn’t connected to recent political hacks, it highlights a troubling lack of digital security within US government organizations.

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  • Security How an offensive strategy could transform cybersecurity (+video)

    At a Passcode event in Washington, Carnegie Mellon University cybersecurity expert David Brumley said digital defenders need to attack their own systems to discover the flaws.

  • Policy Pressure rises on Obama to retaliate against Russia for hacks

    Lawmakers and cybersecurity experts say the Obama administration should have acted faster to retaliate against Moscow once it learned that Russian hackers tampered with the US presidential election. President Obama defended his response so far, and promises more is coming.

  • Security’s people problem — and how executives can help fix it

    Perhaps the greatest power high-level executives and board members have is the ability to change the culture of security in their organizations

  • Security How should 1 billion users respond to epic Yahoo hack?

    The scope of the breach is a harsh reminder how everyone on the web needs to be vigilant about protecting their data in an era of widespread criminal and government hacking.

  • Policy Where is Trump getting his cybersecurity advice?

    Since the president-elect has rejected intelligence analysis that Russian hackers meddled in the presidential election, where is he getting advice on issues of digital security and espionage?

  • Watch Live: Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity

    How can the US defend itself from cyberthreats in the next ten years? Watch a discussion with some of the authors of a cybersecurity report delivered to President Obama earlier this month. 

  • Passcode Voices Opinion: Congress needs to check government hacking powers

    Now that law enforcement has more leeway to hack computers and surveil suspects due to changes in criminal procedure, Congress needs oversee these powers to protect Americans' civil liberties and privacy.

  • Passcode Voices Opinion: Cybersecurity needs an offensive playbook

    In order to beat malicious hackers, the cybersecurity community must develop innovative approaches for deploying – and automating – offensive strategies to find and fix software vulnerabilities.  

  • Watch: Global cybersecurity in 2017

    2016 has been a year of unprecedented cyberattacks. It also laid bare the need for the international community to join forces in confronting these growing global threats.

  • Data Breach Podcast: Lessons from OPM hack to improve federal cybersecurity

    The Cybersecurity Podcast crew interviews the primary author of the US House Oversight and Government Reform Committee report looking into last year's Office of Personnel Management cyberattack.

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  • Michael B. Farrell

    Passcode Editor | Michael is an editor and writer based in Boston.

  • Sara Sorcher

    Passcode Deputy Editor | Sara covers security and privacy policy from DC.

  • Jack Detsch

    Staff writer | Jack is the Mark Clayton Fellow in Cybersecurity

  • Paul F. Roberts

    Correspondent | Paul covers critical infrastructure and the Internet of Things.

  • Jaikumar Vijayan

    Correspondent | Jaikumar is an award-winning technology reporter.

  • Nadya T. Bliss

    Columnist | Nadya directs the Global Security Initiative at Arizona State Uni...

  • Lorrie Faith Cranor

    Columnist | Lorrie is chief technologist at the Federal Trade Commission

  • Dan Geer

    Columnist | Dan is chief information security officer for In-Q-Tel.

  • Jason Healey

    Columnist | Senior Research Scholar, Columbia University SIPA

  • Sascha Meinrath

    Columnist | Sascha founded the Open Technology Institute.

  • Lysa Myers

    Columnist | Lysa Myers is a security researcher at ESET.

  • Bruce Schneier

    Columnist | Bruce is a noted cryptographer and security expert.

  • Evan Selinger

    Columnist | Evan is a philosophy professor at Rochester Institute of Technology.

  • Melanie Teplinsky

    Columnist | Melanie teaches information privacy law at American University.

  • Nicole Wong

    Columnist | Nicole served as deputy chief technology officer at the White House.

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