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Byline: The Monitor's Editorial Board Just days before last week's massive cyber assault known as WannaCry struck computers in at least 150 countries, the telecommunications giant NTT issued a report [...]

Byline: Darby Hopper, Dan Waldman In August, the National Security Agency (NSA) found itself scrambling to figure out how a group dubbed the Shadow Brokers obtained the agency's alleged hacking [...]

Byline: Aliya Sternstein President Trump's blanket civilian hiring freeze may hurt federal agencies already struggling to recruit enough skilled cybersecurity professionals for the nation's digital defenses. While agencies can allow [...]

Byline: Anna Mulrine On the heels of the Democratic National Convention hack and the political fallout that is ensuing months before the presidential election, the country's Homeland Security chief said [...]

Byline: Staff Please join us on Thursday, May 12 from 8:00 to 10:00 a.m. for a panel discussion with a group of prominent cybersecurity experts. Protecting the power grid from [...]

Byline: Sara Sorcher With Washington and Silicon Valley fiercely competing over skilled cybersecurity workers to join their ranks, Intel Security's general manager Chris Young has a way to bridge the [...]

Byline: Olivia Lowenberg Germany and China are working to create an agreement that would eliminate economic cyberattacks between the two countries. Chancellor Angela Merkel's announcement, made during a trip to [...]

Byline: Jaikumar Vijayan Federal government spending on cybersecurity has increased substantially over the past several years, but a return on that investment remains elusive. Breaches such as the one disclosed [...]

Byline: Sara Sorcher The US military will never be completely hack proof, admits the director of the Pentagon's futuristic research arm. 'Invulnerability is not a future state,' says Arati Prabhakar, [...]

Byline: Paul F. Roberts The most critical sectors of the American economy were affected by 245 'cyberincidents' last year, according to the Department of Homeland Security. As high as that [...]

Byline: Staff The US intelligence community has ranked cyberattacks as the No. 1 threat to national security - more than terrorist groups or weapons of mass destruction. But the military's [...]

Byline: Michael B. Farrell For the first time in public, the Pentagon's advanced research wing offered a glimpse into its latest version of a project designed to give the military [...]

Byline: Sara Sorcher In the wake of several high-profile cyberattacks, President Obama pushed a plan to increase the exchange of information about threats between the private sector and the government. [...]

Byline: Christa Case Bryant This week Israel took a groundbreaking step to protect its public and economy against computer attacks by approving plans for a sweeping new cybersecurity authority. On [...]

Byline: Joe Uchill On the heels of President Obama's executive order to promote information sharing between federal agencies and businesses worried about hackers, the White House cybersecurity czar said the [...]

Byline: Jaikumar Vijayan Conventional wisdom suggests that the costly data breaches at Target, Home Depot, JPMorgan, and elsewhere have elevated information security concerns to the highest echelons of corporate America [...]

Byline: Michael B. Farrell, Sara Sorcher The Christian Science Monitor on Tuesday officially launched Passcode, a modern field guide to security and privacy. At a moment when data breaches are [...]

Byline: Mark Clayton Job postings for cyber-security experts are going unfilled in the federal government, a shortfall threatening to undermine US national security by leaving the nation poorly prepared to [...]

Byline: Christa Case Bryant On a hillside campus in Jerusalem, 16 young ultra-Orthodox men come together every evening for intensive training to defend Israel's newest battlefront: the cyber domain. These [...]

Byline: Jarno Limnell Russian and Ukrainian ground forces are keeping their conventional weapons holstered for now, but it's an escalating shooting war in cyberspace. Ukrainian government computers were hit with [...]

Byline: Mark Clayton In his first major speech on cyber-security, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel promised more transparency by the National Security Agency, calling for a 'more open dialogue' about [...]

Byline: Mark Clayton The Obama administration on Wednesday unveiled America's first-ever cybersecurity standards aimed at helping businesses protect the critical infrastructure they own - to a huge chorus of complaints. [...]

Byline: Christa Case Bryant Amid a rapid rise in cyber attacks on Israel, the state is accelerating efforts to recruit and develop the cyber expertise it needs to keep pace [...]

Byline: Mark Clayton Tens of thousands of personal computer users across the US - among more than a quarter-million worldwide - could be caught by surprise Monday when their web [...]

Byline: Mark Clayton With America now trying to thwart a cyberattack on its natural gas industry, it is helpful to recall the hectic days after 9/11, when industry scientists raced [...]

Byline: Anna Mulrine Lawmakers on Capitol Hill have delivered a stark warning to the Pentagon: its failure to address key questions surrounding how the United States military would respond to [...]

Byline: Mark Clayton Deep inside a glass-and-concrete office building in suburban Washington, Sean McGurk grasps the handle of a vault door, clicks in a secret entry code, and swings the [...]

Byline: Jerry Brito and Tate Watkins We marched into Baghdad on flimsy evidence and we might be about to make the same mistake in cyberspace. Over the past few weeks, [...]

Byline: Gordon Lubold Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Washington -- President Obama will appoint a 'cyber czar' to lead his administration in combating the worrisome number of cyber [...]