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...
Michael Dukakis Institute and Boston Global Forum support in building the Mekong Smart City in Vietnam
Michael Dukakis Institute and Boston Global Forum support in building the Mekong Smart City in Vietnam On January 23, 2022 in Ho Chi Minh City, CEO of Nova Group Hoang Thu Chau and Governor of An Giang Nguyễn Thanh Bình, Governor of Dong Thap Pham Thien Nghia, signed...
Search engines and Islamic terrorism
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...
Experts had warned Democrats about cybersecurity gaps
Bloomberg reported July 27 that experts had warned the Democratic National Committee last fall that its computer network was open to attacks by state-sponsored and other hackers but it didn’t follow the cyberexperts' security advice. The revelation is...
Risk managers worry about cybersecurity in self-driving cars
Bloomberg reports that cybersecurity "is the biggest concern for companies evaluating risk in the nascent self-driving vehicle industry, according to a survey conducted by Munich Re.'' The reinsurer found that "55 percent of corporate risk managers surveyed...
Preparations begin for Japanese emperor’s abdication
Emperor Akihito. The Japanese government has begun work to revise the law governing the imperial family system to permit an emperor to abdicate. Emperor Akihito wants to abdicate, government sources have said. He has been treated for prostate cancer and heart...
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 terrorism victims in Israel illustrates some of the complications of going to court to remedy violent radicalism.'' "Lawyers for the victims sued Facebook in Manhattan federal...
Expert talks about U.S.-Chinese cyber issues
Here's a Wall Street Journal interview with cyberspace expert Tim Maurer on the future of Chinese-U.S. cybersecurity relations and Beijing's ambitions for managing the Internet. He says data-stealing is his greatest fear for the Internet: "The vast majority of...