The White House released a list of names that US President Barack Obama has appointed to the new Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity panel. The panel was formed earlier this year as part of Obama’s $19bn (£13bn) proposal to boost the US government’s cybersecurity system. The panel includes top members of the tech, intelligence and […]
Stepping into a heated debate within the nation’s intelligence agencies, President Obama has decided that when the National Security Agency discovers major flaws in Internet security, it should — in most circumstances — reveal them to assure that they will be fixed, rather than keep mum so that the flaws can be used in espionage […]
To hear American masters on computer warfare let it know, the United States has digital weapons that could disable the Syrian government’s air barrier, upset military correspondences, and thump out the force framework. Yet President Barack Obama seems to have taken the choice of digital strike off the table. The reason: the United States is […]
European Union Commissioner for Home Affairs Cecilia Malmstroem on Friday welcomed a speech made by U.S. President Barack Obama on curbing the activities of the National Security Agency (NSA), saying what that meant in practice was yet to be seen. Malmstroem told participants at the 50th Munich Security Conference that there was a need to […]
Former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden succeeded where PresidentBarack Obama couldn’t — getting Microsoft Corp., Google Inc. and Yahoo! Inc. to upgrade computer security against hackers. The companies are adopting harder-to-crack code to protect their networks and data, after years of largely rebuffing calls from the White House and privacy advocates to improve security. The new measures come after documents fromSnowden revealed […]