Sep 06 Africa Hopes to Close Broadband Gap Men surf the Internet at a cyber cafe in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. File photo by Sia Kambou/AFP/Getty Images. According to recent studies by the International Telecommunications Union, only 10.9 percent of Africa's population uses the Internet. By contrast,… Continue reading
Sep 01 Text Messages Study Shows Fear Turned to Anger on 9/11 By analyzing a database of 500,000 text messages sent on Sept. 11, 2001, researchers at the University of Mainz in Germany have created an hour-by-hour psychological profile of texting Americans on that day. The pager text messages,… Continue reading
Aug 27 Conversation: Nicholas Carr’s ‘The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains’ By Tom LeGro Jeffrey Brown talks to Nicholas Carr, author of "The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains," which looks through the lens of neuroscience to see how the Internet shapes our brains. Continue reading
Aug 18 Radio Frequency Identification Tags: Identity Theft Danger or Modern Aid? By Spencer Michels In a recent NewsHour report on cybersecurity, we showed security expert Chris Paget, shown above, climbing on a 29th floor hotel balcony in Las Vegas to demonstrate how he could read radio frequency identification tags at… Continue reading
Aug 16 Monday on the NewsHour: William Powers By Tom LeGro Williams Powers' book, "Hamlet's Blackberry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age," looks to what Powers calls the "best place to find sanity": the past. Continue reading
Aug 12 Online Fraudsters Increasingly Skilled at Hacking Bank Accounts By Joanne Jennings All this week, we’ve been looking at the complexities of cybersecurity, including the potential for attacks on government computers and the views of former CIA and NSA director Michael Hayden on the scope of the “cyber conflict.” On… Continue reading
Aug 12 Watch Online Crime a Cat-and-Mouse Game for Hackers, Security Companies Spencer Michels wraps up his cybersecurity series with a look at online crimes and the technology being used to stop them. Continue watching
Aug 11 Watch Hayden: Hackers Force Internet Users to Learn Self-Defense Correspondent Spencer Michels continues his series on cybersecurity with a conversation with former CIA and National Security Agency Director Michael Hayden who says the openness of the Internet's design puts hackers at an advantage over people who want to defend… Continue watching
Aug 10 Black Hat and Defcon Founder Jeff Moss: What Is the ‘Hacker Mindset?’ By Spencer Michels More than 15,000 computer nerds - hackers, government officials, security company officials and who knows who else - spent a few days in Las Vegas recently for an unusual set of conventions. The subject on everyone's minds was cyber attacks… Continue reading
Aug 09 Google and Verizon: Yes to Net Neutrality, But… The CEOs of Google and Verizon announced a joint set of net neutrality principles Monday that would enshrine in federal law the FCC's ability to regulate the Internet and enforce open access. The document primarily lays out proposed rules… Continue reading