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A busy day with a nice collection of stories (coincidentally all from the Washington Post this time around):
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This is interesting for folks interested in The Future of Violence—a new report on "Hostile Drones: The Hostile Use of Drones By Non-State Actors Against British Targets." Published by something called t...
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Pentagon Delays Cybersecurity Requirements. "The Pentagon has delayed for almost two years a requirement that as many as 10,000 companies show that they have systems to protect sensitive but unclassified...
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The Defense Innovation Initiative (DII) is a DOD-wide initiative “to pursue innovative ways to sustain and advance the capabilities of the ‘force of the future,’” involving two key effort: the Defense In...
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This morning, Admiral Michael Rogers, the Commander of U.S. Cyber Command and Director of the National Security Agency, spoke at the Atlantic Council on his strategic priorities for 2016. Rogers discusse...
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Russia takes down more of the Ukraine. "IT systems at Kiev's main airport were floored over the weekend, sparking a renewed warning from Ukraine's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA) about further...
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I'm very excited to announce that the Strauss Center at UT-Austin is launching a new education-and-research program we are calling "Integrated Cybersecurity Studies," and that we are marking the occasion...
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As many Lawfare readers know, several years ago Steve Bellovin, Matt Blaze, Sandy Clark, and I presented the idea of using vulnerabilities already present in devices as a way to facilitate court-authoriz...
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I’ve been thinking about lawful device hacking of late—that is, government hacking of devices as a way around the “going dark” problem. Many civil libertarians and cryptographers seem actively to prefer ...
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In mid-December, the FAA issued an interim final rule establishing registration and marking requirements for small unmanned aircraft used recreationally – i.e., drones. Like other drone owners, owners of...
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Back in November, The Hill reported that the White House is looking into increasing the transparency of the drone program before President Obama’s imminent departure from office:
The White House wants ...
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On December 9, 2015, FBI Director James Comey testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee at an oversight hearing, and briefly touched on the subject of encryption (beginning at 26:10 on the C-SPAN video...
