Cyber Security & Hacking

And that should scare everyone.

Cutting cables has become the Modi government’s favorite tool.

A deluge of online conspiracy theories is dividing an already polarized country.

A proposed law would shake the global internet—and put the Biden team’s Silicon Valley friendships to the test.

To stop future attacks like the Capitol invasion, the Biden administration must lead the way in pushing social media platforms to counter the far-right.

A global body has helped poorer nations counter COVID-19, but less technologically advanced countries need a similar institution to protect against the coming plague of cyberattacks.

Deplatformed extremist groups are turning to providers in authoritarian states.

Liberal democracies must work to recreate a sense of shared identity online.

As Silicon Valley flails to combat an insurrection at home, Europe is marching ahead with a plan to revise the web’s basic rulebook.

In the global internet economy, India’s tech industry has a leg up on China’s.

The epic SolarWinds hack affecting thousands of government agencies and companies could mark the beginning of the end of the open internet.

Rep. Gregory Meeks, who took the gavel this week, also urged the State Department to reverse its decision to close the last two U.S. consulates in Russia.

Cyberattacks in North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey reveal that government defenses are weak—and many NATO members are at risk.

The coziness between Washington and Big Tech is over.

U.S. officials say private Chinese firms have been enlisted to process stolen data for their country’s spy agencies.

Wargames can provide essential cybersecurity training for soldiers. But they won’t succeed unless the players confront real, independent hackers.

As Xi consolidated power, U.S. officials struggled to read China’s new ruler.

The discovery of U.S. spy networks in China fueled a decadelong global war over data between Beijing and Washington.

Will 2021 be full of foreign-policy crises and domestic drama or dull compared to 2020?