The divide between developers and hackers is real. So, apparently, is the effort to bring them together and make them play nicely. “It’s not just a knowledge gap, but an empathy gap,” said I Am The Cavalry founder Josh Corman during a panel discussion at last week’s RSA Conference. “One common thing between the two...

SAN FRANCISCO—Surely all breached organizations consider hacking back as some means of response to being attacked and losing intellectual property. Thankfully there was a room full of lawyers at RSA Conference on Wednesday to remind IT pros of what a colossally bad idea that is. Putting aside the illegality of hacking back for a second,...

SAN FRANCISCO—National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command director Admiral Michael S. Rogers stood before tens of thousands of RSA Conference attendees on Tuesday and asked for help. In what has almost become a speaking slot reserved for the government to use as a recruiting pitch of some sort, Rogers laid out his case for...

SAN FRANCISCO—One would think that six of the smartest security people on the planet could come to some sort of collective conclusion on the FBI-Apple debate. But that wasn’t the case today during the annual Cryptographers’ Panel at RSA Conference. The debate over whether Apple should assist the FBI in unlocking an accused terrorist’s iPhone...