The New York Times has the answer---sort of: WASHINGTON — He is known as Abdullah al-Shami, an Arabic name meaning Abdullah the Syrian. But his nom de guerre masks a reality: He was born in the United S...

David Sanger reports that the Pentagon and the NSA planned a sophisticated cyberattack aimed at “the Syrian military and President Bashar al-Assad’s command structure” that “would essentially turn the li...

There has certainly been much written about the controversy over autonomous weapons systems, but in my preparation for a Chatham House conference on autonomous weapons, I found one argument made by advoc...

Today's Bits and Bytes starts out with an article about Bitcoin.  As the New York Times reports, Bitcoin is facing two challenges -- from regulators who want to bring the virtual currency under the umbre...

Bob Gourley, of CTO Vision, thinks that the NIST Cybersecurity Framework is OK as far it goes.  But he is concerned that the “framework is missing something very important that enterprises big and small ...

In December I said this about the Presidential Review Group’s recommendation to transfer meta-data from NSA to private control: “I understand the Report’s concerns about the storage of bulk meta-data by ...

President Obama on Tuesday affirmatively stated that the United States does not have any “no spy” agreements with other countries.  Many journalists, scholars, and foreign officials have been laboring un...

Some thoughts on this morning’s drone strike news (NYT, WSJ). The NYT says that President Obama’s announcement last May of an intention “to gradually shift drone operations from the C

Kimberly Dozier AP reports this morning that "[a]n American citizen who is a member of al-Qaida is actively planning attacks against Americans overseas, . . .

The Russian Business Network is active in Sochi.  Lookingglass sees significant criminal assets in Sochi and warns against using 4G networks.  Not the same as the NBC story -- but still a cautionary note...