Cyber Security & Hacking

The digital heist that began with the hack of Sony Pictures

After a year of attacks on Israel, Iran’s hackers have another target.

The United States needs a new legal doctrine to handle state-tolerated attacks.

The Biden administration is circling the wagons to address growing cyberthreats.

Chinese mobile payment apps are a national security threat—but Western financial firms are misguidedly rushing to embrace them.

Billionaire rocket launches and ongoing cyberattacks reveal that, without norms governing conflict, there could be chaos.

U.S. companies are resisting public-private partnerships against cyber-hacking attacks facilitated by foreign governments.

New attacks after the Geneva summit were expected. But Washington doesn’t appear to know how to respond yet.

The White House set clear red lines on cyberwar, but don’t expect much progress in the months to come.

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.