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From a recent story on fedscoop:
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The New York Times has a report today that is a comprehensive look at Russian disinformation campaigns. It begins:
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I agree wholeheartedly with Ben Wittes and Marty Lederman that there are very few new revelations in the just-declassified Presidential Policy Guidance (PPG) on direct action against terrorist targets, a...
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Just over a week ago, at the BlackHat hacker convention in Las Vegas, Ivan Krstić, Head of Security Engineering and Architecture at Apple gave a talk entitled “Behind the scenes of iOS Security,” the sli...
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Amid an onslaught of privacy and cybersecurity threats, it can be difficult to predict which potential concerns will capture the public imagination. A particularly unlikely candidate for public debate ov...
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The encryption debate seems to have died down for now. But events have a way of intruding. As the Hill reports: "Researchers who uncovered a security key that protects Windows devices as they boot up s...
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I have now read through the newly-declassified PPG on direct actions, the so-called "Playbook" for drone strikes from May 2013.
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A few days at the beach see a number of interesting (and as yet unremarked in Lawfare) cyber items:
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This document was released yesterday. I haven't read it yet, but it is entitled "Procedures for Approving Direct Action Against Terrorist Targets Located Outside the United States and Areas of Active Hos...
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Shortly after we released our sextortion reports back in May, Sen. Barbara Boxer wrote a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch seeking data on the scope and magnitude of the problem: "court records sh...
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Yesterday, Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Rep. Adam Schiff—Vice Chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and Ranking Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, respectively—ca...