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NSO Group filed a motion to dismiss WhatsApp’s lawsuit over the alleged hacking of 1,400 cellphones running the WhatsApp application. The motion to dismiss involved one curious claim: NSO claimed derivative sovereign immunity from suit.
The recent Cyberspace Solarium Commission Report recommended establishing a national cyber director and accompanying office. But if enacted as described, the proposal will set up this important office to fail.
A recent executive order on the bulk electric power system signals that still-in-progress efforts to ban Chinese-made telecommunications equipment from U.S. networks may represent a new approach to critical infrastructure security more broadly.
On Friday, May 15, lawmakers will vote on what could be an important step toward maintaining an operational Congress during the coronavirus crisis.
Tik Tok panic continues. Rep. Jim Banks introduced a bill to require app marketplaces and developers to “warn” Americans before they download apps linked to certain countries. What’s in the bill?
Evaluating various approaches to cyber risk quantification can help inform the development of a public standard for measuring cybersecurity.
In the U.S., efforts to develop digital contact-tracing systems have largely fallen to states and tech companies—though privacy advocates have voiced concerns about the invasiveness of such apps.
Lawmakers are showing an openness to operating remotely. But a potential partisan split on the issue could stall progress.
The court invoked the nondelegation doctrine to require explicit statutory authorization of electronic surveillance.
The Commerce Department’s muddled guidance could put the United States’s technological advantage at risk and could decrease the likelihood that U.S. companies’ preferences will be incorporated in international standards.