A series of unfortunate and cascading mistakes allowed a China-backed hacking group to steal one of the keys to Microsoft’s email kingdom that granted near unfettered access to U.S. government i
It should come as no surprise that government bureaucracies move slowly. But that just makes this week’s launch of the State Department’s Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy (CDP) seem positiv
The State Department has confirmed a data breach affecting an unknown number of employees. A spokesperson told TechCrunch that the breach affected “less than 1 percent” of unclassified emp
According to new reports by Politico and Bloomberg, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson plans to merge or eliminate its cybersecurity office, long tasked with representing U.S. cyber interests abroad. T
<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/cell-panic-button.png?w=157" alt="" title="cell panic button" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-290712" />Imagine you are a pro-democracy
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Silicon Valley and the State Department are getting along quite well under the Obama Administration. Last yea