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.

Security researcher and activist Claudio Guarnieri talks to Mike Mimoso about a new project announced last week at the Chaos Communication Congress called Security Without Borders.

Twitter’s decision to notify users when their accounts are targeted in state-sponsored attacks earned its share of praise. But Twitter’s silence in terms of specifics about the attacks—whether by choice or gagged by a National Security Letter—has foisted some anxiety upon those who were notified. A few of the estimated 50 recipients happened to be...

The Tor Project announced last week that it will launch a bug bounty program later this year to encourage security researchers to responsibly report issues they find in the software. Tor Browser and Tor Performance Developer Mike Perry announced the news during the “State of the Onion” address last week at the Chaos Communication Congress conference...