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Getty; The Atlantic ‘Netwar’ Could Be Even Worse Than Cyberwar
A risk first described almost 30 years ago is now mature.
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Getty; The Atlantic What Americans Should Do to Prepare for Russian Cyberattacks
Russians have elevated patriotic hacking to an “art form.” Americans may feel the effects.
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Burton Booz China Is Watching You
With generous state support at home and low-cost sales abroad, Hikvision has become a world heavyweight.
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Erik Carter The Pentagon’s Army of Nerds
Why the military needs Silicon Valley, now more than ever
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Cedric von Niederhausern / The Atlantic American Spies Are Fighting the Last War, Again
When the Cold War ended, the intelligence community failed to adapt. Today it faces a similar challenge.
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The Atlantic Everybody Spies in Cyberspace. The U.S. Must Plan Accordingly.
Because all countries engage in espionage, intrusions like Russia’s latest data hack are devilishly hard to deter.
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Adam Maida The Return of Anonymous
The infamous hacker group reemerges from the shadows.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Twitter Hacks Have to Stop
Twitter and companies like it are essential to the functioning of the economy and the country. The government needs to start treating them that way, and that means both requiring them to do a better job on security and breaking them up.
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Timo Lenzen Putin Is Well on His Way to Stealing the Next Election
RIP democracy
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Jacquelyn Martin / AP America’s Hopelessly Anemic Response to One of the Largest Personal-Data Breaches Ever
The government has indicted four members of China’s People’s Liberation Army for hacking into the credit-reporting agency Equifax. The question is why.
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Mario Tama / Getty In the Deepfake Era, Counterterrorism Is Harder
After failing to detect the 9/11 plot, spy agencies reinvented themselves for an age of terrorism, but a new generation of technological threats requires a new round of reforms.
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360b / Shutterstock / Alexandria Sheriffs Office / … China’s Spies Are on the Offensive
China’s spies are waging an intensifying espionage offensive against the United States. Does America have what it takes to stop them?
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters This Is Exactly What Privacy Experts Said Would Happen
CBP’s trove of biometric data is catnip for bad actors.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters America’s Misbegotten Cyber Strategy
The Trump administration’s National Cyber Strategy rests on a pair of convenient fictions.
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Savita Kirloskar / Reuters The Chinese Motherboard Hack Is a Crisis, Even If It Didn’t Really Happen
Apple, Amazon, and Super Micro have all denied the veracity of a report on Chinese hardware hacking. No matter the outcome, the results could inflame an already raw trade relationship for high tech between the U.S. and China.
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Ian Bogost / The Atlantic Another Day, Another Facebook Problem
Facebook has identified, and fixed, an exploit that allowed attackers to gain control of user accounts. These failures are so common and so widespread, it’s becoming hard to even notice them.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters The Coincidence at the Heart of the Russia Hacking Scandal
A new indictment charges that Russians tried to hack Hillary Clinton’s emails on July 27, 2016—the same day that Donald Trump publicly asked them to do so.
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Wolfgang Rattay / Reuters Cyberattacks Are 'Ticking Time Bombs' for Germany
Its pacifist tradition poses a dilemma for those charged with protecting the country from hackers.
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Reuters / Tami Chappell One of the Biggest and Most Boring Cyberattacks Against an American City Yet
A recent ransomware attack on Atlanta’s computer systems is disruptive, but so ordinary.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Russia's Troll Operation Was Not That Sophisticated
“If the Internet Research Agency were a start-up media company, they probably would not be picking up a fresh round of venture capital.”
