Latest in Cybersecurity & Tech
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Most Email Isn’t Secure. Here’s How to Fix It.
End-to-end encrypted email is generally cumbersome and unintuitive. It’s time to invest in alternatives. -
What the Biden Administration Gets Right and Wrong on ICT in the New Supply Chain Executive Order
On Feb. 24, President Biden signed an executive order titled “America’s Supply Chains,” outlining a process for the United States to identify and mitigate the risks and challenges it faces in a series of... -
ODNI Releases Assessment on Foreign Threats to the 2020 U.S. Election
On Mar. 16, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) released a declassified joint intelligence community assessment on foreign threats to the 2020 U.S. elections. -
FBI Warns That Deepfakes Will Be Used Increasingly in Foreign Influence Operations
On Mar. 10, the FBI’s Cyber Division released a Private Industry Notification (PIN) warning that “Malicious actors almost certainly will leverage synthetic content for cyber and foreign influence operati... -
No, Florida Can’t Regulate Online Speech
Republican Governor Ron DeSantis has promised that Florida will soon enact “the most ambitious reforms yet proposed” for “holding ‘Big Tech’ accountable.” There’s just one problem: It’s unconstitutional. -
How Should the U.S. Respond to the SolarWinds and Microsoft Exchange Hacks?
If the SolarWinds/Holiday Bear campaign was a minimally invasive arthroscopic incision into vulnerable networks, the Microsoft Exchange hack was a full-limb amputation: untargeted, reckless and extremely... -
France, Cyber Operations and Sovereignty: The ‘Purist’ Approach to Sovereignty and Contradictory State Practice
The rule of sovereignty that France asserts applies to cyberspace is incompatible with several of its own operations. The “purist” approach to a rule of sovereignty for cyber operations is at odds with t... -
Commission Criticizes Lack of Preparedness; U.S. Likely to Implement Sweeping Rule on Tech-Related Transactions
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EU Privacy Law and U.S. Surveillance: Solving the Problem of Transatlantic Data Transfers
Most current approaches to resolving the EU-U.S. conflict fall short. It’s time for a hybrid approach. -
How Biden’s Cyber Strategy Echoes Trump’s
Comparing the Biden administration’s Interim National Security Strategic Guidance with Trump’s National Cyber Strategy. -
The Microsoft Exchange Hack and the Great Email Robbery
The world is probably days away from a mass-exploitation of Microsoft Exchange servers—a hack that could have a far greater impact than the SolarWinds breach. -
Was SolarWinds a Different Type of Cyber Espionage?
There is a gap between how administration officials are framing the nature of the SolarWinds incident and what the available evidence indicates about it.


