Cyber

The head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency says companies aren’t taking cybersecurity seriously enough at a time when the threat of electronic attacks is rising.

The Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology and the office of Sen. Edward Markey are looking at ways to improve the security-by-design, cyber hygiene and layered defenses of devices.

The girls, who just a few months ago didn’t know how to turn on a computer, have learned coding, how to use social media and some are writing blogs.

While cyber has been a main focus of the Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, the State Department’s cyber coordinator believes it is only a small component to the larger information operations problem.

Foreign governments that rely on the services of private criminal hackers leave their operations vulnerable to being exposed and disrupted, creating something of a “silver lining” for U.S. law enforcement investigations of cyberattacks, a top Justice Department official said Monday.

The Cyber Squadron Initiative expands training for airmen.

Technologically-savvy young adults are drawn to hacking by the perceived glories of cybercrime, according to a new report from the UK’s National Crime Agency.

A cyber incident occurs, resulting in power outages across eight states in the Mid-Atlantic and New England regions. The incident directly affects 16.7 million people and more broadly affects 37 million. What happens next?

Locked Shields 2017 — organized by the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Ex-cellence in Tallinn, Estonia, and taking place April 24-28 — allows participants from 25 countries to test their technical execution skills in a battle to defense the systems and net-works of a virtualized military air base.

Federal prosecutors want the Russian man convicted of hacking into U.S. businesses to steal credit card data to be sentenced to 30 years in prison and ordered to pay $170 million in restitution.