Initiative
DNI: China Continues Cyber Espionage

DNI: China Continues Cyber Espionage

(15th Feb 2016) China is continuing to conduct cyber espionage operations against the United States, and Beijing’s commitment to a U.S.-China cyber agreement is questionable, the director of national intelligence told Congress on Tuesday. China is continuing to...

Iranian hackers target U.S. dam

Iranian hackers target U.S. dam

(March 14th 2016) In a reminder of the vulnerability of physical infrastructure to cyber-attacks,  the Obama administration will publicly attribute a 2013 cyber-attack against a New York State dam to Iranian hackers, say U.S. officials familiar with the investigation,...

Ezra Vogel discusses the G7 Summit, Japan, China, cyber-security

Ezra Vogel discusses the G7 Summit, Japan, China, cyber-security

(March 14th 2016) Here are online remarks and a Q&A with Ezra Vogel, the Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus at Harvard, a world-renown expert on East Asia and a member of The Boston Global Forum (BGF).  He is probably best known for his work...

A fight over ads,  encryption and law enforcement

A fight over ads,  encryption and law enforcement

(March 14th, 2016) The battle between parts of the U.S. private sector and government officials over the tension between privacy and law enforcement goes on.   Politico reported on  California Sen. Dianne Feinstein “criticizing technology companies for preventing...

Obama pleads for cooperation on smartphone access

Obama pleads for cooperation on smartphone access

(March 14th, 2016) President  Obama said  on May 11 that smartphones – such as the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino terrorists that the FBI is trying to make Apple Inc. help it hack for information about possible ISIS links -- can’t be allowed to be "black...

Healthcare information under attack

Healthcare information under attack

U.S. healthcare providers lag way behind other industries in protecting their digitized data about patients. Thus the number of cyber-attacks is only expected to accelerate. See more The number of healthcare-data attacks over the past five years has increased 125...