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Hackers for Hire. Hacker's List is the new Uber for hacker hiring. "A man in Sweden says he will pay up to $2,000 to anyone who can break into his landlord’s website.
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Editor’s Note: The recent terrorist attacks in France prompted mass rallies and statements of support from around the world. In the United States, President Obama is convening the leaders of concerned st...
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This week, Ben and Matt Waxman sat down with Daniel Reisner, former head of the International Law Branch of the Israeli Defense Forces and current partner with Herzog, Fox and Neeman. Reisner has also se...
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Last week, Bryan Cunningham invited the Lawfare community to debate the proper role of law enforcement and traditional war fighting tools in combating terrorism. Cunningham argued that the discussion was...
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We've yet to find a transcript of President Obama's remarks during today's press conference with British Prime Minister David Cameron, but according to several news outlets, the President made a number o...
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As part of the run-up to the State of the Union address next week, the Administration has been releasing publicly some of its policy proposals. One of the most notable suite of proposals involved new le...
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Bruce Schneier has responded to my earlier exchange with Edward Snowden with a challenging question: Putting aside what the Constitution currently does or does permit, wouldn't it be better if all survei...
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Our guest commentator for episode 49 of the Steptoe Cyberlaw podcast is Juan Zarate, a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), the senior national security analyst fo...
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Raids across Europe rooted out dozens of suspected Islamic extremists yesterday and today, ABC reports. The Guardian reveals that Belgian counter-terrorist units conducted an operation against suspected ...
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The U.S.
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Today’s announcement by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court that she is opening a “preliminary examination” into alleged crimes on Palestinian territory since June 13, 2014 is really a non...
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Scientific Computing had this news yesterday, about the important DNI-ordered study from the National Research Council:
WASHINGTON, DC — No software-based technique can fully replace the bulk collection ...
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In his State of the Union address, President Obama will undoubtedly address issues of terrorism, including the new threats posed by ISIS and Al Qaida and the recent attacks in Paris. Much has changed s...
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Although new facts are emerging each day, and we can anticipate that the facts will continue to develop, I have been surprised by recent commentary (this for example), suggesting that the Paris attacks a...
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As readers might recall, two years ago the Philippines launched an arbitration process against China under the auspices of the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). Although its exact claims re...
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Yesterday, the U.S. released five Yemeni inmates from Guantanamo Bay. Oman, which shares a border with Yemen, has accepted four of the five detainees, while the fifth man has been resettled in Estonia. F...
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At a CATO surveillance event last month, Ben Wittes talked about inherent presidential powers of surveillance with this hypothetical: "What should Congress have to say about the rules when Barack Obama w...
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As part of our ongoing series on Bitcoin, I thought I would note today's report that the value of Bitcoin has fallen below $200/XBT. Since buying the coin on December 31 it has lost more than 33% of its...
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The five detainees are Yemeni; four went to Oman, and one to Estonia, apparently.
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Last week, I introduced a new podcast that Shane Harris, Tamara Cofman Wittes, and I are doing entitled, Rational Security.
