Professor Ozolina, thank you very much indeed for those kind words of welcome. Professor Thomas Patterson, co-founder of the Boston Global Forum, governor Dukakis in absentia, the Dukakis Institute, President Levitz the president of Latvia, ambassador Makarova, fellow...
Dear chairs of the Boston Global Forum, Nguyễn Anh Tuấn, dear fellow councils general and distinguished member of the audience, as the french consul general in Boston, let me express my deep appreciation for the initiative taken by the Boston Global Forum and the...
China is pressing ahead with efforts to make it easier for dictatorships like that of Chinese President Xi Jinping to censor information on the Internet under the guise of “cybersovereignty’’. Cybersovereignty is a concept used to try to maintain the power of...
It might surprise readers that this not done long ago: Lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives are pushing to have North Korea designated a state sponsor of terrorism, with Iran, Sudan and Syria, eight years after the Communist dictatorship was taken off the...
An ABI Research press release says: "Europe is emerging as a global leader in national cybersecurity enforcement. The European Union (EU) and countries connected to the Council of Europe and the European Economic Area, including Norway and Switzerland, have...
The New York Times reports that "there is a widespread recognition that the Western alliance has yet to develop a strategy'' to counter Russia’s increasingly aggressive actions against NATO members in cyberspace. "While there are frequent conferences and...
The Guardian reports that "'Anonymous' has launched another wave of hacking attacks against Islamic State (ISIS), taking over social-media accounts associated with the group and giving them an LGBT-flavored makeover.'' "The loose hacking collective, which grew...
(June 21st, 2016) Bloomberg News reported on June 17 that Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign said, in Bloomberg's paraphrase, that "there’s no sign that hackers have broken into its computer systems, but it’s well aware that Russian cyber operatives may be...