Cybersecurity

Despite the insistence of many pundits and technical experts, the recent WannaCry outbreak was – mercifully – a poorly organized attack with a poorly constructed tool. […] More

One of the emerging trends in today’s expanding cyber espionage landscape has been China’s emergence as the leading practitioner of economic cyber espionage. What does […] More

It has been three years since the Obama Administration publically indicted five Chinese military officials for hacking U.S. companies, a move that prompted negotiations to […] More

When Beijing got the word that the United States was accelerating the deployment of its Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system to South Korea […] More

Cybercrime is market-driven, with criminals gravitating toward models that maximize their return on investment. Criminals will divest and lessen efforts that have lower returns in […] More

Everybody who depends on digital information systems, which is everybody, saw a few glimpses of silver lining from the WannaCry ransomware attack that took the […] More

Who’s to blame for the astonishingly successful ransomware attack sweeping the planet? Microsoft, the information technology giant whose popular Windows operating systems harbored the flaw […] More

Friday’s global attack on computers in some 150 countries was clearly a wake-up call. It took government systems offline, affected corporations of all kinds, took […] More

Over the weekend, businesses and critical services like banks, hospitals, telecommunications services and transportation hubs around the world were hit with a cyber attack that […] More

In response to the massive Wannacry ransomware attack that infected over 200,000 computers around the world, Brad Smith, Microsoft’s President and Chief Legal Officer, wrote […] More

As businesses wake up to the possibility that the WannaCry ransomware tool will spread beyond the already estimated 200,000 computers already infected across Europe, experts […] More

The long-awaited executive order on cybersecurity is out. It’s not dramatic or surprising (perhaps because drafts have been floating around Washington for weeks), but it […] More

With a barrage of attacks regularly hammering the private sector and nearly every U.S. federal agency, there is a strong need for government policies within […] More

With the help of big data analytics, the Department of Defense Insider Threat Management and Analysis Center — better known as the DITMAC — is […] More

At the RSA conference in February, Microsoft’s Chief Legal Officer called for a “digital Geneva Convention” to help provide parameters on offensive cyber operations and […] More

As people’s lives become more attached to the internet, cyber attacks will have more of an impact. One of the most pressing threats is the […] More

Imagine an army of computers, acting under the instructions of a criminal syndicate, terrorist group, or foreign government. The sheer size of this network of […] More

With the proliferation of smart devices connected to the public internet the population of botnets – networks of compromised devices that can be leveraged for […] More