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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...

Links to Chinese officials in offshore tax-haven document drop

(April 11st, 2016) Perhaps not surprisingly,  “the Panama Papers’’ -- the stunning pile  of documents involving national leaders and powerful businesspeople  around the world using offshore tax havens – includes the names of family members of major Chinese government...

More security needed around nuclear material

(April 11st, 2016 ) The terrorists in Brussels had been trailing a senior Belgian nuclear official. The strong implication is that ISIS would be pleased to stage an attack with nuclear material – perhaps not a nuclear explosion itself,  but rather they would  use...