The New York Times is still reeling from a massive Web outage that took down its homepage, its corporate Web site, and everything in between.The Washington Post From ACM News | August 14, 2013
Given that Bitcoin first broke into mainstream attention when Gawker explained how to use it to buy drugs, perhaps the surprise is that it took federal regulators...The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | May 15, 2013
I had the pleasure of spending some time with Cory Doctorow on Feb. 25 at the Jefferson Hotel here in the nation's capital.The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | March 4, 2013
"Start asking security experts which powerful Washington institutions have been penetrated by Chinese cyberspies," report my colleagues Craig Timberg and Ellen...The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | February 25, 2013
We woke up on the morning of Nov. 9 expecting the usual: for one of us, the tending to patients; for the other, the morning rush of packing lunches and getting...The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | January 24, 2013
Perhaps it was the "fog of simulation." But the scariest aspect of a U.S.-Iran war game staged this week was the way each side miscalculated the other’s responses—and...The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | September 21, 2012
In a recent briefing to Congress about worldwide threats, FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III said that the danger of cyberattacks will equal or surpass the danger...The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | February 13, 2012
The nation’s second-ranking military official said Thursday that the U.S. approach to protecting its computer systems was "too predictable" and failed to penalize...The Washington Post From ACM News | July 15, 2011
The history of Internet security is both worrisome and instructive. When the first virus — the "Morris worm"—was launched in 1988, the Internet was a closed system...The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | July 11, 2011
Any headline that uses the phrase "wiretap the Internet" is likely to make people on the Internet cranky. When this wiretapping scheme comes from an administration...The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | September 28, 2010
The National Security Agency wants job applicants to know that its polygraph test is nothing to sweat. The eavesdropping and code-breaking organization has produced...The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | June 15, 2010
The Obama administration's progress toward the goal of making the U.S. digital infrastructure "secure, trustworthy, and resilient" has been sluggish due to the...The Washington Post From ACM TechNews | June 3, 2010
Six years ago, we built Facebook around a few simple ideas. People want to share and stay connected with their friends and the people around them. If we give people...The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | May 26, 2010
The United States is fighting a cyber-war today, and we are losing. It's that simple. As the most wired nation on Earth, we offer the most targets of significance...The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | March 2, 2010