Twitter has made the 24-hour news cycle into a 2-hour news cycle
Research into how the Obama and Romney campaigns used Twitter during the presidential election shows not only has the news cycle been compressed by a factor of ten, but the media echo chamber is also...
View ArticleCiting cybercrime, Obama unloads sanctions on North Korea
The United States is laying down additional economic sanctions on North Korea courtesy of an executive order issued by President Obama on Friday. The sanctions come in response to the U.S. Federal...
View ArticleFBI: North Korea “got sloppy” with IP addresses in Sony hack
The FBI continued to insist Wednesday that North Korea was responsible for hacking Sony Pictures Entertainment, the Associated Press reported. FBI Director James Comey said at a New York cybersecurity...
View ArticleLeading Democratic congressman wants to bring back CISPA
Dutch Ruppersberger, a U.S. congressman for Maryland and a top-level Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, plans to revive the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) this Friday,...
View ArticleObama’s executive order calls for sharing of security data
President Barack Obama signed an executive order on Friday designed to spur businesses and the Federal Government to share with each other information related to cybersecurity, hacking and data...
View ArticleNeutral no more
Advocates for net neutrality confronted FCC chairman Tom Wheeler in his driveway this morning as he tried to leave for work. It turned out to be a harbinger of what turned into one helluva Monday for...
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