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A number of sources are reporting the discovery of a complex malware toolkit, mostly described as "Flame," which appears to have been distributed in a targeted fashion to infect computers in Iran in part...
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The New York Times this morning has a lengthy, rich, and detailed feature story on President Obama's counterterrorism record. Reporters Jo Becker and Scott Shane have done a really terrific job of bringi...
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The Federal government acknowledged, on Friday, that a contractor operating aspects of the Thrift Savings Plan (the government's in-house pension plan) suffered a significant cyber breach. As a result o...
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I've lately been thinking of the scope and nature of cyber threats -- mostly in writing a still-in-draft response to Jack Goldsmith's recent defense of cybersecurity regulation. In the interest of furth...
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My friend, Jack Goldsmith, wonders whether my earlier post about the pending Congressional proposal to regulate cybersecurity was a reference to General Alexander’s failure to persuade Senator McCain of ...
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As Raffaela noted earlier, Atlantic blogger Conor Friedersdorf has written in praise (sort of) of conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer for the latter’s opposition to domestic drones. I would consid...
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Now sooner did I complain about the lack of editorial response to John Brennan's speech on drones than the Washington Post has published this editorial on drone strikes in Yemen. The editorial goes on t...
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[UPDATE 5/10/12: Whoops. Careful readers will note that the new bill omits the congressional-notification language from last year's bill...at least in the text of the statute, though not in the explanat...
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It is surprising to me that neither the Washington Post nor the New York Times nor the Wall Street Journal has yet to run an editorial reacting to John Brennan’s extensive and thoughtful speech on drones...
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I received the list below (of "Significant Cyber Attacks" on Federal systems since 2004) from sources on Capitol Hill last week. After reading through it and checking the data, it seemed worth making th...
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Well, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act passed the House last week. Now that the dust has cleared (and before we move on to the coming Senate battles) it’s probably worthwhile looking at...
