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Cyber

Small toy figures are seen in front of a binary code in this illustration picture, April 8, 2019.

In a world of cyberthreats, the push for cyberpeace is growing

Science & Technology

Dozens of countries and hundreds of firms and nonprofits are fed up with digital violence. They are working toward greater cybersecurity for all — and even what might be called cyberpeace.

Fake news is easy to create. Social bots are simple software applications that help boost the impact of false news on social media sites.

Germany finds itself in the center of the cyberstorm

Global Politics
The sign outside the headquarters of the US Army's new Cyber School at Fort Gordon, Georgia. The school is part of the Army's creation of a new cyberwarfare branch.

The Army is getting serious about cyberwarfare

Conflict

Cyber warfare developing into larger threat for U.S., it’s allies

Environment
The World

Cyber Warfare and US-China Diplomacy

Global Politics

The Future of International Cyber Attacks

In the tech world, “hackers” are variously freedom fighters, poorly behaved geniuses, truth tellers, underground rock stars, and dangerous criminals where the objective is denial of service, identity theft, or exposure of private, even classified, data to the public. In the world of cyber warfare, the objectives are much bigger: full scale attack on the […]

Making the Rules of Cyberwar

Global Politics

Cyberspace is the new fifth domain of war between states. Its unclear how the rules of war apply. At a meeting of military and academic legal scholars at the UC Berkeley law school, the consensus was that the laws have fallen far behind the technology.

Top of the Hour: Obama Sets Rules on Cyber Warfare, Morning Headlines

President Obama has signed executive orders that detail the types of cyber attacks and other computer-based operations that military commanders around the globe may use against their enemies, during both conflict and peacetime. The cyber attacks range from planting a computer virus to eradicating an enemy’s electrical grid.  

Pentagon Says Cyber Attack Can Be Cyber War

The Pentagon has said a cyber attack coming from another country can be interpreted as an act of war and that the U.S. might respond with military action, according to a new report in The Wall Street Journal. Unclassified portions of the new strategy are expected to be published next month. Siobhan Gorman, Intelligence Correspondent […]

The World

Georgia hacking

Environment

Georgia is accusing Russia of attacks in cyberspace as well, as several Georgian government websites went down over the weekend, but Russia denies any responsibility, and says that, in fact, it’s the Georgians who are attacking Russians online.