President Trump on Sept. 12 announced that the U.S. would delay tariff increases on $250 billion of Chinese imports until Oct. 15, creating a possible opening for the two sides to reach an agreement duri...

Last week, Facebook announced the final charter for its independent Oversight Board, which will have the power to hear cases and overrule Facebook’s decisions about what can and cannot remain on Facebook...

Most people who follow the debate over unbreakable, end-to-end encryption think that it’s more or less over. Silicon Valley has been committed to offering such encryption since at least the Snowden revel...

In 2018, U.S. cyber strategy shifted from a reactive, deterrence-based approach to the forward-postured, proactive policy of persistent engagement. Persistent engagement broadly entails more active defen...

Amid privacy scandals, sweeping disinformation operations and links to ethnic cleansing, a reasonable person could be forgiven for wondering lately: “What is the point of Facebook?” Now the world has Fac...

Recent years have seen sustained calls to “unleash” the private sector to more assertively combat cyber threats. The argument has gained some sympathy in Congress, where Rep. Tom Graves (R-Ga.) recently ...

U.S., China to Resume Trade Talks, but Obstacles Remain

There have been many pieces, in Lawfare and elsewhere, about the weaknesses in America’s political and election systems. In my career as a security executive, I sometimes found it difficult to communicat...

In recent months, Republican Sen. Josh Hawley has introduced three bills that would take a startlingly aggressive approach toward the technology industry: prohibiting gambling-like “loot boxes” in video ...

It turns out that U.S. Cyber Command’s June 2019 Iran operation may have been narrower—and more effective—than previously understood.

Twitter, Facebook, and Google Block Accounts Over Hong Kong Disinformation Campaign

There is near-universal agreement on Capitol Hill about the importance of American leadership in the field of 5G technology as well as the importance of protecting the networks of the United States and ...