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The Cyberlaw Podcast: Interview with Jeanette Manfra
Our interview is with Jeanette Manfra, DHS’s Assistant Secretary for Cyber Security and Communications. We cover her agency’s binding directive to other civilian agencies to purge Kaspersky software from... -
Happy Birthday, National Security Act of 1947!
Today marks 70 years since the National Security Act took effect, restructuring the American national security apparatus toward what it looks like today. The septuagenarian law forms the basis of much of... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley said on Sunday that the Security Council has no options left to contain North Korea’s nuclear program. Trump administration officials escalated their rhetoric against North Ko... -
Cybercrime Roundup: WorldPay Update
On July 20, Judge Steven Jones of the Northern District of Georgia sentenced Evgeny Levitskyy (known by the moniker M.ur.d.e.r.e.r.) to 46 months in prison and three years of supervised release. Levitsky... -
The Week That Will Be
Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar) Monday, September 18 at 3:30 pm: The Brookings Institution will host Pierre Moscovici, the European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affa... -
Put Silicon Valley in D.C. With a Cyber Workforce Incubator
It is no secret that Silicon Valley and Washington have dramatically different workplace cultures and attitudes toward risk and technology. In the valley, savvy entrepreneurs look to disrupt the status q... -
The Latest Scoops from CNN and the New York Times: A Quick and Dirty Analysis
CNN and the New York Times this evening published dueling scoops on former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. As Jim Comey might put it: Lordy, there appear to be tapes. -
What Are ‘Juggalos’ and Why Are They Marching Against the FBI?
On Saturday, the Juggalos marched on Washington. According to their website, they would “take our fight to the streets” this weekend to protest the FBI’s treatment of them. Which led a lot of people to a... -
Intelligence, Politicization, and the Russia Probe
Editor’s Note: The incoming administration's scorn for intelligence professionals is a matter of grave concern to many of us at Lawfare. I, for one, worry that the administration will conduct its foreign... -
The Lawfare Podcast: Brookings Panel on Cybersecurity in U.S. Elections
The evidence of foreign interference in the 2016 U.S. elections emphasizes the significant national security threat to our democracy posed by weak cybersecurity in election-critical systems. Last week, S... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Jack Goldsmith analyzed the precedents for a legal justification for a strike on North Korea in opinions from the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel. Bob Bauer argued that the impeachment proc... -
DreamHost Documents Summaries
On July 28, the Department of Justice turned to the D.C. superior court to enforce a since-modified computer search warrant against DreamHost, a web hosting service. One of DreamHost’s customers, a websi...
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