Cyber Security & Hacking

Email phishing attacks aren’t unusual, but the new breach shows Russia isn’t letting up.

The cloud is everywhere. It’s critical to computing. And it’s under attack.

A new book gets the policy recommendations right while making technical errors that could undermine trust in its conclusions.

The Czech Republic’s kerfuffle over diplomats demonstrates the need to think bigger—and smaller—when it comes to responding to cyberattacks.

Pyongyang’s hacker armies have shown a proficiency to finding vulnerabilities and exploiting them—and the world needs to be prepared.

Who was behind the largest-ever cyberattack on the United States—and how can the next one be prevented?

Cyberattacks from China are on the rise, but the United States can help.

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.