At the Kaspersky Lab Security Analyst Summit, one researcher shared how he was able to find corporate emails, confidential business plans and classified FBI flash alerts.

Bruce Schneier and Orin Kerr have written a paper that explains the technological and legal issues associated with six encryption workarounds available to law enforcement.

Jigsaw and Google said they would offer a free suite of security tools aimed at securing political elections.

The Department of Justice indicted four individuals, including two Russian FSB officers, for their roles in the Yahoo breach.

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week including a rash of new IP camera backdoors, James Comey’s talk at Boston College, hacking back vs. active defense, and the DOJ dropping one of its Playpen cases.

FBI Director James Comey revived old rhetoric on strong encryption during a keynote at the Boston Conference on Cyber Security. He did not address the leak of CIA hacking tools or Russia during his talk.

A Ponemon Institute report on ransomware revealed 48 percent of businesses surveyed paid a ransom in exchange for getting their data back.

Services are being restored to the St. Louis Public Library computer system after a ransomware attack impacted access to machines and data at all 17 branches.

The Department of Homeland Security has designated the U.S. voting infrastructure as critical infrastructure.

The U.S. intelligence committee is expected to publish an unclassified report on Russia’s involvement with influencing the presidential election.