Evacuation efforts got 19,000 people out from the Kabul airport in the past 24 hours, President Joe Biden talks cybersecurity with key leaders in the private sector, and New York updates its COVID-19 death toll.
Biden Tackles Cybersecurity Issues at White House Summit
President Joe Biden is meeting Wednesday with top executives from some of the country’s leading technology companies and financial institutions as the White House urges the private sector to help toughen cybersecurity defenses against increasingly sophisticated attacks. The summit comes during a relentless stretch of ransomware attacks that have targeted critical infrastructure, in some cases…
Cyberwar—Part One
Commentary Cybercrime often merges with cyberwarfare. The techniques of both are similar, even if their intentions are not. Yet, unlike their “real-world” counterparts, we cannot afford to treat the former as merely a law enforcement problem and the latter as a military problem. Today’s gnat is tomorrow’s nuclear-tipped missile. In a recent article, former U.S….
Employees Can Be Insider Threats to Cybersecurity: Here’s How to Protect Your Organization
By Andrei Komarov The U.S. Army recently announced an initiative called “People First,” a strategy that calls for enacting widespread policy directives and changes designed to better support the health and well-being of the largest branch of the U.S. Armed Forces. For an organization that’s known for sending its people out on long tours away from…
Didi Denies Management Changes Amid Cybersecurity Probe
BEIJING—China’s ride-hailing giant Didi Global Inc said on Thursday that rumors about a possible management change are not true. “Didi is actively and fully cooperating with regulators’ cybersecurity probe, market rumors about management change at the company is not true,” Didi said in a Weibo post. The statement followed a South China Morning Post report,…
The At-Sea Cyberhack Hijack Is Now a Real Threat
Commentary On Aug. 9, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken promised to punish Iran for attacking an oil tanker near the entrance to the Persian Gulf. He specifically mentioned an attack that occurred in late July. An explosive blast killed two crewmen. The Defense Department believes Iran used drones to deliver the munitions. The safety…
Facebook Shuts Out NYU Academics’ Research on Political Ads
August 5, 2021
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Facebook has shut down the personal accounts of a pair of New York University researchers and shuttered their investigation into misinformation spread through political ads on the social network. Facebook says the researchers violated its terms of service and were involved in unauthorized data collection from its massive network. The academics, however, say the company…
Biden Signs Memorandum to Bolster Efforts to Combat Cyberattacks
President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed a memorandum aiming to bolster America’s critical infrastructure against cyberattacks. The National Security Memorandum on Improving Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure Control Systems addresses cybersecurity for critical infrastructure and implements long-overdue efforts to tackle cyber-related threats, according to what a senior White House official said on a briefing call with reporters….
Why Beijing Is Going After China’s Uber DiDi
Are Chinese stocks safe for American investors? Just this month, one Chinese company sent many of them on a roller coaster ride. China’s version of Uber, called DiDi, entered the U.S. market to sell its stock shares. At first, it was exciting news for Wall Street and looked like a big investment opportunity. But in…
The Dangerous War We Don’t See
July 22, 2021
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Commentary On Monday, the Biden administration formally blamed China for a massive cyberattack against Microsoft’s email software that impacted tens of thousands of U.S. businesses, government offices, and schools. In response to this attack, the Biden administration opted for the “name and shame” approach by calling out China and publicizing an advisory list of more…
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