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Warner: U.S. Needs a New Doctrine in Cyberspace

Sen. Mark Warner said the U.S. was blinded by its assumed superiority in cyber operations and was unprepared for its adversaries' recent moves.

Government

New Australian Law Poses Risk to Encrypted Services

The Australian Parliament has passed a new law that requires technology companies to provide access to encrypted communications.

Encryption, Privacy

Chrome’s Anti-Abuse Feature Blocks Ads on Dodgy Sites

Chrome 71 extends the ad-blocking technology introduced last year to block advertisements on sites with "harmful experiences" on the web.

Chrome Security, Malware

Decipher Podcast: Melanie Ensign

Melanie Ensign of Uber joins Dennis Fisher to talk about the challenges and rewards of working in security and privacy communications.

Podcast

Critical Kubernetes Bug Gives Anyone Full Admin Privileges

With a 9.8 rating on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System, the privilege escalation flaw in container orchestration system Kubernetes is as bad as it can get. Any user will be able to remotely gain full administrator privileges on any node in the cluster.

Vulnerability, Open Source, Patching