Initiatives
Action plan to block cyberattacks in Vietnam
By Allan M. Cytryn, principal at Risk Masters International, and John E. Savage, An Wang Professor of Computer Science at Brown University. Both are members of The Boston Global Forum. We recommend a series of short- and long-term actions to block cyberattacks in Vietnam. The ultimate goals of these actions are to 1) ensure that the appropriate international agencies are fully engaged in addressing this issue and its longer-term implications; 2) operationally address the issue immediately and restore reliable, safe operations for air travel, and 3) more broadly enhance Vietnam’s cyber-resilience so that it is less vulnerable to such incidents. Ensure that the appropriate international agencies are engaged: This is an...
Pro-Chinese hackers disrupt Vietnamese aviation
Hackers, presumably directed by the Chinese government, have attacked the Web...
Search engines and Islamic terrorism
Google will point Web searches toward anti-radicalization Web sites after a study shows...
Experts had warned Democrats about cybersecurity gaps
Bloomberg reported July 27 that experts had warned the Democratic National Committee...
Risk managers worry about cybersecurity in self-driving cars
Bloomberg reports that cybersecurity "is the biggest concern for companies evaluating...
Keeping terrorists from social media requires tech solutions more than legal ones
Paul Barrett writes in Bloomberg: "A lawsuit filed against Facebook Inc. on behalf of...
Expert talks about U.S.-Chinese cyber issues
Here's a Wall Street Journal interview with cyberspace expert Tim Maurer on the future...
Another tech leader is hacked
The Twitter account of Brendan Iribe, who runs Facebook’s virtual-reality headset...
Serious journalism dying in Xi’s China
Many Chinese journalists are giving up on that profession as the Communist dictatorship...
Using algorithms to predict terrorists’ attacks
New research is being used to try to determine, via an algorithm, the links between...
Chinese tail U.S. carrier but no incidents are reported
U.S. officials say that at least one Chinese military ship tailed the USS John C. Stennis...
U.S. legislators push to have North Korea listed as sponsor of terrorism
It might surprise readers that this not done long ago: Lawmakers in the U.S. House of...
NATO members very weak on defending themselves from Russian cyberattacks
The New York Times reports that "there is a widespread recognition that the Western...
America’s ‘gun-control terror gap’
The Guardian looks at the "gun-control terror gap'' in the United States, which the news...
Group of U.S. diplomats urges military strikes against Assad regime
51 U.S. mid- to high-level diplomats have signed an internal memo critical of U.S....
Blame European leaders for Brexit’s popularity
(June 21st, 2016) Clive Crook writes that if the British vote on June 23 to leave the European...
CIA chief: Islamic State to change tactics
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan, said on June 16 that the United...