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At a Senate intelligence committee hearing in November on Social Media Influence in the 2016 U.S. Elections, Sen. Dianne Feinstein said about Russian interference in the 2016 election, “What we're talkin...
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On Dec. 21, all eyes were on the Republican bill to cut taxes. Yet a bipartisan group of six senators also had their eyes on the far less sexy (but still important!) topic of election hacking. They quiet...
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The apocryphal joke is rather crude: “Other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?”
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It’s not often that we come away from international law workshops most impressed and inspired by methodological debates. But that was our common takeaway of a recent Hebrew University Cyber Security Rese...
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North Korea was behind the infamous WannaCry cyberattack, asserted homeland security adviser Thomas P. Bossert in a Dec.
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My hat is off to the Trump administration’s deft diplomacy in the United Nations Security Council.
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Attribution of cyber incidents is a reoccurring concern. Russian involvement in the 2016 U.S. presidential election remains a contentious issue, and on Tuesday, the White House publicly linked North Kore...
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I’ve been trying to figure out why the U.S. government thought it was useful to attribute the “WannaCry” attack to North Korea. WannaCry was a global ransomware attack that hit hundreds of thousands of c...
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Getting security right means not only knowing what your threats are but also determining their likelihood and relative risk. Such threat modeling requires systematically enumerating your threats, evaluat...
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Today, the Trump administration released its National Security Strategy. This piece will address one narrow element of the document: cybersecurity. It’s a hot topic, but compared to North Korea’s nuclear...
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On Dec. 11, Nick Weaver argued that Apple isn’t doing enough to help law enforcement wiretap iPhone users. That's undoubtedly true, as Apple is building communications systems optimized for privacy and s...
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If your personal information is released but never misused, can you sue the company that was supposed to keep it safe? Some federal circuits say no; others say yes. A new cert petition in Attias v. CareF...