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...
President Zelenskyy welcomes four presidents of Europe
President Zelenskyy, Boston Global Forum World Leader for Peace and Security Award’s recipient, welcomed France’s President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, and Romanian President Klaus Iohannis in Kyiv, Ukraine....
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...
Congressional Quarterly Roll Call Documents John Savage’s Contribution To A Historic International Cybersecurity Agreement
(July 4th, 2016) Congressional Quarterly Roll Call recently interviewed Professor John Savage of Brown University's Department of Computer Science (Brown CS) to document a unique moment in history. "The May 26-27 meeting of the Group of Seven in Ise-Shima, Japan,"...