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Russian spies break into Democrats’ database

Russian spies break into Democrats’ database

(June 21st, 2016) The Democratic National Committee has disclosed that Russian government hackers penetrated the DNC’s computer network to get into the entire database of opposition research on GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump. DNC officials and security...

Horror in Florida

Horror in Florida

Law-enforcement officials do not yet know the full story of what led Omar Mateen, 29, to, murder 50 people and injure dozens more at a club in Orlando, Fla., on June 12. The shooter  was a Florida resident, a U.S. citizen and the son of immigrants from Afghanistan....

Obama’s ‘Internet surrender’ to despots is denounced

  L. Gordon Crovitz writes in The Wall Street Journal in a column headlined "The Battle Over Obama's Internet Surrender'': “It’s make or break for the Internet as we know it. Unless Congress acts this summer, the Obama administration will end U.S. protection of...

Merkel: Implementing Minsk Agreement would end sanctions against Russia

Merkel: Implementing Minsk Agreement would end sanctions against Russia

(June 13th, 2016) German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on June 10 that implementing the Minsk Agreement to end the conflict between Russia and Ukraine would end sanctions imposed against Russia  for  its seizure of Crimea from Ukraine and its ongoing attacks on the...

Cybersecurity Deficits and International Norms by Derek S. Reveron

Cybersecurity Deficits and International Norms by Derek S. Reveron

(June 6th, 2016) International security for the last 30 years has been characterized by security deficits, which I define as a government’s inability to meet its national security obligations without external support. (1)  In the terrestrial world, intra-state,...

China cyberattack apparently targets Indian military

(June 13th, 2016) The Sunday Standard of New Delhi reports that a Chinese cyberattack on Indian government units and business groups has led to an alert to the Indian military, which appears to be the main target. The paper reported that a Chinese Advanced Persistent...