The biggest security threats facing the U.S. are ‘botnets,’ wrote associate editor of news and commentary for MIT Technology Review Jamie Condliffe. Botnets are networks of internet-connected devices ...

The Department of Commerce and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Wednesday released a joint report detailing how the federal government can combat botnets, or networks of infected ...

Global networks faced more than eight million distributed denial-of-service attacks during the second half of 2025, underscoring a sharp escalation in the scale and coordination of cyber disruption ...

White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt knows the cyber threat is an amorphous landscape that’s constantly changing, requiring him to always be reevaluating where to direct his most ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. As we look ahead to 2026, the cybersecurity landscape is approaching a crucial stage where new technologies, changing threat ...