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Kaspersky Lab v. DHS: The Government's Response and Kaspersky's Reply
In December 2017, the Russia-based cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab filed suit against the Department of Homeland Security over an order labeling Kaspersky software an “information security risk” and ord... -
2018 Election Vulnerability: Voter Registration Systems
The Russian information-operation strategy can be summed up as “chaos monkeys”: agents seeking to destabilize the United States by exploiting fissures in our society. The Mueller indictments announced Fr... -
The East West Institute's New Report on Encryption: A Review
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Deepfakes: A Looming Crisis for National Security, Democracy and Privacy?
“We are truly fucked.” That was Motherboard’s spot-on reaction to deepfake sex videos (realistic-looking videos that swap a person’s face into sex scenes actually involving other people). And that sleazy... -
Indicting Hackers Made China Behave, But Russia Will Be Harder
On Friday, Special Counsel Robert Mueller released the indictment of the "Internet Research Agency LLC," also known as the Russian troll factory, and a number of other entities and individuals. -
NAS Report: A New Light in the Debate over Government Access to Encrypted Content
The encryption debate dates back to Clinton administration proposals for the “clipper chip” and mandatory deposit of decryption keys. But that debate reached new prominence in connection with the FBI’s e... -
Documents: Congressional Task Force on Election Security January 2018 Report and the Election Security Act
On Wednesday, House Democrats' Congressional Task Force on Election Security released a report urging action on election security in advance of this year's midterm elections. Reps. Bennie Thompson and Ro... -
Evaluating the U.K.'s ‘Active Cyber Defence’ Program
In November 2016, the U.K. government launched its Active Cyber Defence (ACD) program with the intention of tackling “in a relatively automated [and transparent] way, a significant proportion of the cybe... -
The Israel-Iran-Syria Clash and the Law on Use of Force
In the early hours of Saturday morning, an Iranian unmanned aerial vehicle entered Israeli airspace close to the Syrian border. Israel shot down the UAV and responded by attacking the command vehicle, de... -
U.K. Committee Grills Big Tech on Fake News
On Feb. 8, 11 U.K. Members of Parliament came to Washington to grill witnesses from U.S.-based technology companies as part of a inquiry into “fake news” by the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee. -
Small Towns, Big Companies: How Surveillance Intermediaries Affect Small and Midsize Law Enforcement Agencies
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What Law Enforcement Really Needs for Investigations in the Digital Age
A recent New York Times article on cyber crime told not the sort of data-breach story with which readers have become familiar but, instead, focused on vast unknowns in the sphere of cyber crime.
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