We are shocked and deeply saddened by the assassination of Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. The entire Boston Global Forum community condemns this senseless act of violence that occurred during a public political campaign event in Japan. Mr. Abe was a good...
First, I would like to thank the organizers and the people who put together this conference for a herculean effort and for taking the time to do this. I think that most of the people in this conference are familiar with the current state of the war in Ukraine, so I...
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...
Google will point Web searches toward anti-radicalization Web sites after a study shows more clearly than before the role of the search engine, rather than social media, in drawing people to extremist material on the Web. The study is one of the first to...