By now almost everyone has read David Sanger’s fascinating New York Times story relating the behind-the-scenes story of the development and deployment of the Stuxnet virus as part of a larger classified ...

Jack has already noted today's New York Times story attributing the Stuxnet virus to American and Israeli activity through the disclosure of a code word classified program known as Olympic Game.  I'll ha...

Excellent discussion of drone strikes on today's Diane Rehm Show--which, unfortunately, is not embeddable.

The Washington Post had a fascinating story today about "Plan X" -- the program funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to jump start research into new modes and methods of cyberw...

Both the NYT Becker-Shane “Kill List” story and the Klaidman book excerpt have implications for the pending ACLU FOIA suit in CADC, which seeks CIA records on CIA drone strikes.

Over at Volokh Conspiracy, I make some comments on the NYT article to which Ben linked this morning.  My comments run to the kind of signals that the administration might be seeking to send about the tho...

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...

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...

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...

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...