Items tagged ‘Cybersecurity’
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Should We Assume We’ve Been Hacked?
What individuals and businesses can learn from recent cybersecurity breaches
The State Department confirmed a security breach of its unclassified email system on Monday – the fourth infiltration of a federal government agenc... -
NEW WEBSITE AND REPORT: How Do We Define “Cyber Incident”, “Cyber Attack”, and Other Key Cyber Security Terms?
New AmericaWASHINGTON, DC – Today, New America’s Tim Maurer and Robert Morgus released a new report outlining existing definitions of cybersecurity and inform... -
Compilation of Existing Cybersecurity and Information Security Related Definitions
The year 2013 saw a number of positive developments in regional and global cybersecurity discussions including the Initial Set of OSCE Confidence-B... -
New America’s Tim Maurer Speaks about Cybersecurity at the United Nations
New AmericaOn October 24, 2014, New America Research Fellow Tim Maurer addressed delegates at the United Nations (UN), delivering a speech on cybersecurity at... -
Why Even the Definition of “Cyber Attack” Matters
Martin SigalowAlthough definitional debates can sometimes seem pedantic, debates over the term “cyber attack” are an important exception. How “cyber attack” is d... -
OTI Analysis of Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA, S. 2588)
The following is the introduction to the Open Technology Institute's analysis of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2014 (CISA, S. 2588),... -
The CISPA-Zombie Won’t Die
Instead, It Changed Its Name to CISA and It’s Here to Violate Your Privacy.
On Tuesday, the Senate Intelligence Committee met in secret and approved the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2014 (CISA)(S. 2588). The bil... -
How Data Caps Are Bad For Cybersecurity
A number of high-profile tech policy issues are dominating the summer headlines, including the proposed merger between Comcast and Time Warner Cabl... -
Busting the Buzzword: Social Impact and Civic Innovation
Would you consider adding to the transit infrastructure of your city a civic innovation? Pictured: Capital Bikeshare bikes in Washingtonn, DC. Phot... -
Build With, Not For
A #CivicTech Manifesto
Crafting high-quality civic technology — projects and tools designed withsocial impact in mind — requires thought, creativity, and intentionality —... -
4 Tips for Organizing Unstructured Events Without Going Insane
Crafting high-quality civic technology — projects and tools designed withsocial impact in mind — requires thought, creativity, and intentionality —... -
3 Reasons #CivicTech Needs Civic Art
OTI's "People's Tech" table invited visitors to The Tech Embassy to visualize not just what different tech concepts look like today, but what they ... -
Neither Bottom-Up Nor Top-Down
3 Tips for Horizontal Organizing
Crafting high-quality civic technology — projects and tools designed withsocial impact in mind — requires thought, creativity, and intentionality —... -
On Accountability and Audience
Why We Didn't Have a Funk Parade Hackathon
Crafting high-quality civic technology — projects and tools designed with social impact in mind — requires thought, creativity, and intentionality ... -
Citizen Science
A Pathway to Civic Action
At last week’s Personal Democracy Forum, Matt Stempeck who has led work on participatory civic projects out of MIT’s Center for Civic Media, modera... -
Civic Innovation: a New America-wide conversation
Are community tool libraries (shared work equipment, like that pictured above) a civic innovation? Image by slobikelane. As part of our new approac... -
Civic Innovation Beyond Civic Technology
A sneak peek of New America's recent civic innovation brainstorm. More soon._ Technology has become part of nearly everything we do in our public a... -
A Victory for Digital Justice
Your Tax Dollars at Work
In 2009, digital justice coalitions in Detroit and Philadelphia seized an opportunity to turn a new federal policy into a lasting transformation of... -
Think Local First
3 Innovation Strategies for City Economies
An image from David Macauley's Underground, source: http://socks-studio.com/ This post from OTI’s Civic Innovation Team is part of the Meeting of t... -
How the Politics of Language Can Get In the Way of Policy: On Convergence and Framing
In a recent expert survey, we examined the effect of Stuxnet on the Internet governance debate. One of the most common responses was that Stuxnet a...