Just on the heels of the Anonymous takeover of the US Sentencing Commission website, the New York Times is reporting that its network has been subject to persistent hacking over the last four months at the hands of Chinese attackers.  … Read more »

That’s the cyber news from Mashable.com.  From the site’s report—which elsewhere says the attack was intended as retaliation for the prosecution of Aaron Swartz:

 The hacktivist group Anonymous hacked the US federal sentencing website early Saturday, using the page to

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The second installment in the Hoover Institution’s series of short essays on national security challenges for the Obama administration’s second term is now out. It is by . . . me. Entitled, “Governing a World of Many-to-Many Threats and … Read more »

You can probably tell that I’m catching up on my reading tonight!  My other offering is this fascinating article on The Hackers of Damascus.  For those who are warriors in our readership, the article offers a detailed description of … Read more »

I’ve lately been thinking of the scope and nature of cyber threats — mostly in writing a still-in-draft response to Jack Goldsmith’s recent defense of cybersecurity regulation.  In the interest of furthering the debate, this article on How to … Read more »

I received the list below (of “Significant Cyber Attacks” on Federal systems since 2004) from sources on Capitol Hill last week.  After reading through it and checking the data, it seemed worth making the list part of the public record.  … Read more »

In his NYT column today, Bill Keller argues that Wikileaks “was a hell of a story and a wild collaboration, but it did not herald, as the documentarians yearn to believe, some new digital age of transparency. In fact, if … Read more »

Ritika’s Moment of Zen today gives rise to a Moment of Envy for me. I thought my trading card and being named “The Worst Possible Person in the World” were cool. But being named in an Anonymous video … Read more »