FBI Director Implores Corporate Boards to Join Cyber Fight
The FBI is encouraging companies to go directly to the federal government when their systems are breached or infected. In a recent speech, FBI Director Christopher Wray took a consoling tone with corporate board members, saying “I get that there’s a reluctance out there sometimes to turn to the feds
LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media – An OODA Loop interview with P.W. Singer
An OODA Loop interview with author P.W. Singer on his new book about information operations on social networks.
The Future of AI Policy is Largely Unwritten
Congressman Will Hurd talks with OODA Loop about Artificial Intelligence policy and his newly released committee report calling for a national AI strategy.
Here is How the U.S. Government Wants You to Talk About Election Cybersecurity
The United States government has released a set of common definitions for talking about election cybersecurity issues.
China Will Close Artificial Intelligence Gap by End of 2018, Lawmakers Warn
“Artificial intelligence technologies are capable of disrupting every aspect of society and the United States must do more to maintain leadership in the area, the leaders of a House panel said in a report released Tuesday. Artificial intelligence ‘has the potential to disrupt every sector of society in both anticipated
Mobile Websites Can Tap Into Your Phone’s Sensors Without Asking
“When Apps want to access data from your smartphone’s motion or light sensors, they often make that capability clear. That keeps a fitness app, say, from counting your steps without your knowledge. But a team of researchers has discovered that the rules don’t apply to websites loaded in mobile browsers,
Hackers Report Cites ‘Staggering’ Vulnerabilities in U.S. Voting Systems
“The number and severity of hackable vulnerabilities in voting machines across the U.S. is ‘staggering,’ according to a Thursday report from computer security researchers at the DEF CON cybersecurity convention, which took place in August in Las Vegas. Among other vulnerabilities, the report cites a voting tabulator that can be
OSINT and ‘We got really lucky’: how novichok suspects’ identities were revealed
The breaking identification of one of the Novichok poisoning suspects not only connected the attack to the Russian government, it also showcased the depth of OSINT research techniques and possibilities that are consistently leveraged across the fields of journalism, private research, military research, and beyond. The investigation launched by a
An Air Force ‘Way of Swarm’: Using Wargaming and Artificial Intelligence to Train Drones
Animals swarms in nature are providing insight into U.S. military development of drone swarms operating outside of a centralized command system. War on the Rocks writes, “now imagine being able to deploy a collection of drones on the scale and magnitude of a locust swarm. Indeed, the same laws that
NSA employee who brought hacking tools home sentenced to 66 months in prison
A 68-year-old NSA employee has been sentences to 66 months in prison after taking home highly sensitive hacking tools between 2010 and 2015 in order to have more time to study them, win better performance reviews, and secure higher pay. Because the materials were removed from the NSA’s secure internal