As our lives become increasingly dependent upon computer systems and cyber technologies grow ever more sophisticated, the internet has emerged as the new battleground of the 21st century. From criminals' stealing credit card and social security number information to foreign governments' hacking into American companies’ information systems, cyber attacks can take on myriad forms, prompting the government to formulate new measures to protect online security. Since cyberwarfare knows no territorial bounds, ensuring cybersecurity will also require international cooperation and an updated understanding of jus ad bellum, as it applies to cyber attacks.
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On Feb. 11, the Department of Justice unveiled an indictment against Huawei and its subsidiaries—the third filed in approximately one year against the Chinese tech giant.
In a Wall Street Journal article, a senior Huawei official acknowledged the company has a significant capability.
The Department of Justice has announced indictments of four Chinese People’s Liberation Army service members in connection with the 2017 Equifax breach. The indictments rely on a capacious definition of economic espionage and serve an unclear purpose.
Four Chinese military hackers, all members of the People's Liberation Army, have been charged with breaking into the computer networks of the Equifax credit reporting agency and stealing the personal information of millions of Americans, the Justice Department announced Monday.
The FTC has opened the new decade with a quiet revolution in their data security orders. Reasonableness, a touchstone of FTC data security, has disappeared from their newest orders. What replaces it does not put the FTC's cybersecurity program on much better footing.
Tor hidden services are intended to help dissidents and whistleblowers. Instead, they have provided a false sense of security to users and created a platform for child sexual exploitation.
The spending bill authorizes the Pentagon to create procurement pathways in which software can be purchased in less than a year. If effectively implemented, the change would be dramatic.
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