Less than eight years from the 2030 deadline to realize the United Nations sustainable development goals, authors of this paper published this week by the Brookings Institution suggest that "a holistic approach to broadening digital access while building robust...
Good morning, everyone. I would like to start with a huge thank you to the Boston Global Forum for putting on this conference together. I would like to start with the fact that the horrors of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine mark a turning point in German...
Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida has warned that ties with China are "significantly deteriorating"after Chinese vessels repeatedly entered disputed waters in the East China Sea. Mr. Kushida had called the Chinese ambassador to Japan to protest what the...
More and more people are backing off from the Internet, frightened of cybercrime, privacy violations and very valid fears about the ever-more-glaring inadequacies of cybersecurity. The Guardian reported: "When cybersecurity professionals converged in Las Vegas...
Reuters has reported that Facebook is rejecting claims by German officials that the social-media company was reluctant to co-operate with them on criminal investigations of recent violent incidents in the country . The company says that many of the government's...
There is no such thing as a safe place in the cyberworld: Cyber researchers have told Reuters that Iranian hackers have broken into more than a dozen accounts on the Telegram instant messaging service and identified the phone numbers of 15 million Iranian...
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...
Hackers, presumably directed by the Chinese government, have attacked the Web site of Vietnam's two biggest airports and its national airline, Vietnam Airlines, with pro-Chinese messages about China's attempts to take control of most of the South China Sea. The...