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BGF online dialogue looks at ‘white hat hackers’

(April 4th, 2016) In The Boston Global Forum’s latest online dialogue on cybersecurity, Andrew Douglas,  director of Deloitte’s Cyber Risk Services, and Allan M. Cytryn, a BGF adviser and a principal of Risk Matters International, discuss how organizations can use...

Obama continues to push Cuban detente

(March 28th, 2016) This week, President Obama is in Havana, he is determined to make his détente with Cuba irreversible. He does after all face quite a few people who oppose his effort to end the half-century of enmity between the two countries. As his trip to Cuba...

FBI puts 2 Syrian hackers on a most-wanted list

(March 28th, 2016) The FBI found the hackers’ identities by obtaining search warrants for their Google and Facebook accounts. The men often used Gmail accounts to threaten and extort money from their victims. Ahmad Umar Agha and Firas Dardar The FBI has put two Syrian...

BGF online talk on setting global cybernorms

(March 28th, 2016) The Boston Global Forum host online discussion on cybersecurity, and also try to bring cybersecurity proposals to the 2016 G7 Summit scheduled for May 26-27 in Japan. J.D. Bindenagel, the Henry Kissinger Professor for Governance and International...

Cyber-Security Proposals  for the G7 Summit in 2016

Cyber-Security Proposals for the G7 Summit in 2016

(March 21st) The G7 nations have a big stake in creating a stable and secure cyberspace, in the public and private spheres. Accordingly, The Boston Global Forum, as part of its BGF-G7 Summit Initiative, proposes I. That the G7 nations encourage adoption of norms set...

More  activity by China on reef it seized from the Philippines

More activity by China on reef it seized from the Philippines

(March, 21st) The United States is seeing what may be new Chinese  surveying at a reef in the South China Sea that China seized from the Philippines nearly four years ago.   The United States is seeing what may be new Chinese  surveying at a reef in the South...