As reports of the NSA officially connecting WannaCry to North Korea surface, experts are saying developers failed to contain the ransomware before it was ready for deployment.

Rep. Tom Graves has revised a draft of the Active Cyber Defense Certainty Act with new provisions that include mandatory notification and permission to recovery or destroy stolen data on the attacker’s computer.

A linguistics analysis of the 28 ransom notes included with WannaCry indicate that native Chinese and English speakers wrote the original note, Flashpoint said.

Dan Geer’s Source Boston keynote included a declaration that cybersecurity and humanity’s future are forever conjoined.

A bill that would exclude organizations from prosecution for hacking back is already stirring up some concerns about potential unintended consequences.

A bill that would exclude organizations from prosecution for hacking back is already stirring up some concerns about potential unintended consequences.

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including on this week’s U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Service hearing, the Burlington Electric ‘Hack’, FireCrypt, and Security Without Borders.

The rush to connect a security incident at a Vermont utility to Russian government hackers is more evidence of the challenges around attribution.