The threat from cyberattacks has never been more acute, but there is reason to worry America is not rising to the challenge. It is not the lack of a [...]
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The Cipher Brief broke new ground when it published my piece addressing scams as a national security issue in December 2023. Two years later, there [...]
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The Cipher Brief broke new ground when it published my piece addressing scams as a national security issue in December 2023. Two years later, there [...]
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The Global Positioning System (GPS) is arguably the greatest dual-use technology ever developed. It saves us trillions of dollars in wasted fuel and [...]
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The Global Positioning System (GPS) is arguably the greatest dual-use technology ever developed. It saves us trillions of dollars in wasted fuel and [...]
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America has entered a moment in which it is fundamentally more vulnerable than at any point in modern history. For the first time, the systems that [...]
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America has entered a moment in which it is fundamentally more vulnerable than at any point in modern history. For the first time, the systems that [...]
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“This memorandum consolidates approximately ten separate outdated memoranda that were inadequate to address the current, complex unmanned aircraft [...]
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Occasionally, a speech does more than mark a leadership transition or outline institutional priorities. It captures, with unusual clarity, the nature [...]
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SPECIAL REPORT — In a turbulent year, one of the biggest national security stories came in the form of a document.The administration’s National [...]
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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW — Anthropic’s announcement that Chinese state-sponsored hackers used its Claude AI technology for a largely automated cyberattack [...]
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EXPERT INTERVIEW — The last few months have seen a series of major cyber incidents which have frozen airports, crippled companies, compromised [...]
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DEEP DIVE — From stolen military credentials to AI-generated personas seamlessly breaching critical infrastructure, digital identity fraud is rapidly [...]
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The use of artificial intelligence by adversaries has been the subject of exhaustive speculation. No one doubts that the technology will be abused by [...]
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It is worryingly easy to get hold of personal and sensitive data on American military and intelligence personnel. Earlier this year investigative [...]
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The timing was no coincidence.As the U.S. federal government ground to a halt at 12:01 a.m. EDT on October 1, 2025, a cybercriminal group calling [...]
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Ransomware attacks conducted by criminals are persistently hitting airports, schools, and 911 dispatch centers, while foreign adversaries probe our [...]
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DEEP DIVE — When Secret Service agents swept into an inconspicuous building near the United Nations General Assembly late last month, they weren’t [...]
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When we think about the arteries of global power, images of oil pipelines or shipping lanes often come to mind. They are visible, tangible, and easy [...]
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