Nir Kshetri

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After the NSA hack: Cybersecurity in an even more vulnerable world

It is looking increasingly likely that computer hackers have in fact successfully attacked what had been the pinnacle of cybersecurity – the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). A few days ago, reports began emerging of claims by a hacking group called the Shadow Brokers that it had breached the network

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Why the IRS was just hacked – again – and what the feds can do about it

Last month hackers stole Internal Revenue Service data belonging to more than 100,000 taxpayers. This sort of attack on the IRS and other federal computer systems keeps happening – and succeeding – because the government's cyberdefenses are not strong enough to resist.