Friday morning, the White House announced in a statement that the President ordered the elevation of Cyber Command to a unified combatant command. The full statement can be found below.

Have you heard of “Regulators in Cyberia”? No, it’s not the latest thriller on the silver screen. Rather, it’s a white paper recently released by the Federalist Society’s Regulatory Transparency Projec...

Ukrainian Malware Expert as Link to Russian Electoral Interference. This front page article from the New York Times continues the slow public exposure of evidence linking Russia to electoral interferenc...

Australia is weighing in on the encryption debate regarding exceptional access by law enforcement.

Last year, the Republican National Committee hired a firm called Deep Root Analytics to collect voter information. The firm accidentally exposed approximately 198 million personal voter records. This was...

Sens. Mark Warner, Cory Gardner, Ron Wyden and Steve Daines have proposed a bill, the Internet of Things Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2017, that is a good first step in securing the Internet of Thing...

On July 5, AlphaBay, an online marketplace specializing in the sale of illegal goods and services, went offline. Users and vendors wondered what had happened.

Should the leading online tech companies be regulated as public utilities? Maybe so, according to White House advisor Steve Bannon. His basic argument, according to The Intercept, “is that Facebook and ...

On July 20, China’s State Council issued the “New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan” (新一代人工智能发展规划), which articulates an ambitious, three-step agenda for China to lead the world in AI. ...

Though it was little noticed outside the Bitcoin community, the arrest in Greece on a sealed U.S. indictment of Alexander Vinnik for allegedly running the BTC-e crypto-currency exchange is significant ne...

Bitcoin is loosing market share. "For the last two years, rival factions have been vying for control of the Bitcoin virtual currency and its global network of computers and supporters.

In light of Michael Sulmeyer’s excellent recent piece on splitting NSA and CYBERCOM, which ran at War on the Rocks last week, I want to pull together some of the key legal and policy developments of the ...