Latest in Cybersecurity & Tech
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The Lawfare Podcast: Information Ecology and 19th-Century Naturalism at Verify 2024
What does Prussian naturalist Alexander Von Humboldt have to do with cybersecurity? -
Livestream: Day 2 of the 2024 U.S. CYBERCOM Legal Conference
Watch day 2 of the 2024 U.S. Cyber Command Legal Conference starting at 7:45 a.m. ET. -
Backdoor in XZ Utils That Almost Happened
The recent cybersecurity catastrophe that wasn’t reveals an untenable situation, one being exploited by malicious actors. -
Kyber Sprotyv: Ukraine’s Spec Ops in Cyberspace?
A group with ties to the Ukrainian government is breaching the email accounts of Russian military officers, politicians, and civilians. -
Livestream: Day 1 of the 2024 U.S. CYBERCOM Legal Conference
Watch day 1 of the 2024 U.S. Cyber Command Legal Conference, starting at 8 a.m. ET. -
Verification Is Possible: Checking Compliance With an Autonomous Weapon Ban
Secure records can help prove that attacks by armed uncrewed vehicles were conducted under human control. -
The Lawfare Podcast: Jim Dempsey and John Carlin on U.S. Cybersecurity Law and Policy: There’s a Lot Going On
What is new in the realm of cybersecurity? -
What Does the Public Think About Government Use of Facial Recognition?
New data suggests that the public is broadly accepting of targeted facial recognition use even as it is concerned about casual facial surveillance becoming an everyday event. -
CSRB Lashes Microsoft’s ‘Cascade of Security Failures’ + Supply Chain Compromises
The latest edition of the Seriously Risky Business cybersecurity newsletter, now on Lawfare. -
There Is No General First Amendment Right to Distribute Machine-Learning Model Weights
Unlike source code, which humans use to express ideas to each other, model weights function primarily as machine-readable instructions. -
The Lawfare Podcast: Contestability in Government AI Systems
What does meaningful contestability of AI systems look like in practice? -
It Depends Who’s Doing the Jawboning
In Murthy v. Missouri, one vital piece of context has gone unacknowledged: Different administrations operate differently.


