Initiative

BGF’s CEO meets with MIT cyberexpert

(April 18th, 2016) Nguyen Anh Tuan, chief executive of The Boston Global Forum (BGF), met on April 13 with Nazli Choucri, a professor of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an expert in international cyberrelations.   She was...

China complains about G7 statement on South China Sea

(April 18th, 2016) China last week summoned envoys from the Group of Seven (G7) industrialized democracies to complain about a G7 statement opposing provocation in the East and South China Seas. The G7 was responding to Chinese militarization of small reefs and...

Hackers take aim at Pakistan’s powerful

(April 18th, 2016) Here’s a look, in the wake of the “Panama Papers’’ scandal about how rich and/or powerful people hide money in offshore accounts, at how cyberhackers are challenging the establishment in Pakistan.

European pushback on digital-privacy accord

(April 18th, 2016) European Union privacy regulators want changes to a proposed new EU-U.S. Digital- privacy accord. The Wall Street Journal thinks that this pushback increases the likelihood that the deal will end up challenged in court,  leaving “thousands of...

2 key senators back bill to force unlocking of encrypted data

( April 18th, 2016)  U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Republican Richard Burr and the panel’s vice chairman,  Democrat Sen. Dianne Feinstein, are circulating proposed legislation that would require companies to unlock encrypted data, in, for example, an...

U.S. officially launches cyberwar on Islamic State

(April 11st, 2016) The U.S. government has officially announced that it is launching cyberwarfare against the so-called Islamic State, in the first case of the U.S. publicly disclosing cyberattacks in warfare, although it has acted before against U.S. foes with...