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During a House committee hearing on Wednesday, Roberta Stempfley — acting assistant secretary of the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Cybersecurity and Communications — said her agency was aware of “about 16” reports of cybersecurity threats related to the … Continue reading →

More Americans’ identities were stolen in tax refund crimes in the first six months of 2013 than in all of 2012, said a U.S. Internal Revenue Service watchdog on Thursday who described the problem as “a growing epidemic.” Tax refund … Continue reading →

Shuyuan spoke at Tallahassee Community College’s Center for Workforce Development in honor of National Cyber Security Awareness Month on Oct. 24. and was interviewed by WCTV Eyewitness News in Tallahassee.  Click here to see… Dr. Ho, assistant professor at Florida State University iSchool, … Continue reading →

LinkedIn’s new Intro service has put up a big sign advertising to cyber criminals, nation states and others ‘hack here, we’ve got loads of juicy data’. The architecture of its new service is innovative but compromises your security and privacy … Continue reading →

Creating a science to detect and model cyberattacks and the risk and motivations behind them, and creating a response that can counter the attack and neutralize the cyberattackers in real time, is the aim of a cooperative agreement between the … Continue reading →

A pair of former government officials on Thursday pushed companies to focus less on preventing cyberattacks and more on building systems that allow them to quickly identify and rebound from intrusions, in response to a new survey suggesting current corporate … Continue reading →

Dr. Shuyuan Ho, Assistant Professor at the School of Library and Information Studies (SLIS), Florida’s iSchool, has been awarded a two year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The grant team will be led by Dr. Ho (Principal Investigator) … Continue reading →

Edward Snowden accessed some secret national security documents by assuming the electronic identities of top NSA officials, said intelligence sources. The NSA still doesn’t know exactly what Snowden took. But its forensic investigation has included trying to figure out which … Continue reading →

Lying can be an art, but it’s also a science. Researchers have taken a closer look at what happens to a person when they tell a lie and have found out exactly what occurs in an individual’s brain. Yet exactly … Continue reading →

President Barack Obama said Wednesday that, as technology continues to proliferate, the United States may have to update safeguards against its surveillance programs. But Obama, speaking at a news conference in Stockholm with Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, once again … Continue reading →