The Lawless Trons of Cyberspace
By Travis Nicks Center for International Maritime Security Open borders are here. You likely crossed the Rio Grande before breakfast this morning and you’ll sneak into China before you sleep […]
Tag Archives: Cyber Warfare
‘Cyberbombs’ Away
By Richard Forno & Anupam Joshi The Conversation Recently, United States Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work publicly confirmed that the Pentagon’s Cyber Command was “dropping cyberbombs,” taking its ongoing battle […]
The Challenges of Deterring Cyber-Attacks
By Joshua Tromp Small Wars Journal Recent history is full of events demonstrating the serious effects of cyber-attacks and the prominent role they play in global events. Incidents such as […]
Hacking is the New Normal
By Jared Keller Pacific Standard The United States government is a hacker’s paradise. The Obama administration announced last week that hackers had stolen the personal information of more than four […]
The Kremlin’s Internet Troll Army
By Adrian Chen The New York Times Magazine Every day at the Internet Research Agency was essentially the same, Savchuk told me. The first thing employees did upon arriving at […]
From Russia With Malware
By Owen Matthews Newsweek In hacker jargon, it’s called a “cyber-to-physical effect.” It’s when a hacker reaches out from the virtual world into the real one—often with catastrophic consequences. The […]
Hybrid War: Old Concept, New Techniques
By Alex Deep Small Wars Journal While the means by which state and non-state actors conduct hybrid war today have changed, the fundamental principle of utilizing a combination of conventional […]
Why Companies Have Little Incentive to Invest in Cybersecurity
By Benjamin Dean The Conversation Another month, another data breach, and another set of proposals for what is seemingly an intensifying cyberattack problem. When we examine the evidence, though, the […]
When Can a Hacker Start a War?
By Ryan Fairchild Pacific Standard On the morning of November 21, 2014, hackers sent Sony executives—who were gearing up for the release of Seth Rogen’s North Korea-bashing film, The Interview—a […]
The NSA and the Digital Arms Race
By Jacob Appelbaum, Aaron Gibson, Claudio Guarnieri, Andy Müller-Maguhn, Laura Poitras, Marcel Rosenbach, Leif Ryge, Hilmar Schmundt, & Michael Sontheimer Der Spiegel Normally, internship applicants need to have polished resumes, with […]
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