PITTSBURGH -- The portraits of Chinese army officers mounted on poster board stare down from the walls of the FBI’s western Pennsylvania field office. Though ...
By allegedly hacking into the home-brew email server of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Romanian hacker Guccifer learned a lesson that’s been dutifully ...
Regular readers of this column may recall that my father was a scientist at Bell Telephone Laboratories. Beginning his work in the 1950s, when computers ...
Every year, Switzerland responds to about 1,000 backcountry search-and-rescue (SAR) emergencies—hikers injured in falls, thrill-seekers who’ve gone missing, campers stranded by rock slides or floods. ...
The tech firm Deep Space Industries (DSI) is headquartered on the second story of an aging office building at the edge of NASA’s Ames Research Center, ...
As the sun rose over the banks of the Seine and the medieval, half-timbered houses of Rouen, France, on July 13, 2012, Hisham Almiraat opened his inbox to ...
Faced with increasingly sophisticated ways for criminals to scramble communications and cover their tracks online, the FBI has broadly embraced government hacking to track down ...
Analysts say it’s underpowered, hasn’t been equipped with weapons, and is a far cry from the world’s most advanced jets, but this week Japan’s stealth ...
With the Syrian cease-fire in tatters, the country’s battered rebels are clamoring for one thing as bombs again fall on their cities and markets: shoulder-fired ...
Unable to pull data from an iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino killers, the FBI borrowed a technique from the digital criminal underworld ...
Thought the legal battle between Apple and the Justice Department over accessing iPhone data was put to rest? Think again: On Friday, U.S. prosecutors informed ...
With Washington and Silicon Valley at loggerheads over giving the government access to encrypted data, the leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee have offered a ...
Now that it encrypts its messages, social media giant WhatsApp has thrown up a major roadblock for the world’s intelligence agencies. But the National Security ...
In a March interview with the New York Times, GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump declared that the United States is “obsolete” on cyber. The same ...
By John McRae Best Defense essay contest entrant “Dispersion” is coming. In the well-circulated RAND piece about the rise of “swarm warfare” as the next stage ...
I just finished Klaus Schwab’s new book, The Fourth Industrial Revolution, and it is worth reading. Schwab is the founder of the World Economic Forum, which ...
The revitalization of former rustbelt areas is bringing new competitiveness to the United States and Europe. Former centers of industry have become centers of innovation: ...
Every weekend, Longform highlights its favorite international articles of the week. For daily picks of new and classic nonfiction, check out Longform or follow @longform on Twitter. Have an ...
[audio mp3="https://foreignpolicymag.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/160328_globalthinkers_mixdown.mp3"][/audio] In this week's Global Thinkers podcast, "wogrammer" founders Zainab Ghadiyali and Erin Summers join Epibone CEO and co-founder Nina Tandon to discuss the ...
The Justice Department may have abandoned its fight with Apple over accessing the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino shooters. The war over government ...
The Justice Department has charged seven Iranian hackers with launching cyber attacks against 46 U.S. banks and an upstate New York dam in a strike ...
Hours before lawyers for Apple and the Justice Department were set to square off in a California courtroom, the U.S. government revealed that it may ...
Since 1989, labs around the world have initiated more than 2,200 clinical trials testing gene therapies, but only a few studies have resulted in government-approved ...
Envision a colleague positioning papers on a digital bulletin board — but without actually touching anything. The co-worker wears a glove and, by merely raising ...
On Dec. 23, hackers targeted three Ukrainian electricity companies, plunging 225,000 people into darkness. The attack was the first confirmed cyberattack to have caused a ...
SAN FRANCISCO -- With Apple and the Justice Department slugging it out over the company’s right to encrypt its products, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter would ...
SAN FRANCISCO -- A bevy of U.S. government officials descended on Silicon Valley Tuesday to preach a gospel of cooperation with the tech industry and ...
Despite being locked in an acrimonious fight over the government’s ability to access encrypted communications, both Apple and the FBI say they agree on one ...
Having spent half my career as an appointed national security official in the past five Republican administrations, I appreciate and respect FBI Director James Comey ...
Google’s mobile operating system runs on more phones around the world than Apple's. And like Apple, Google has publicly embraced the kind of encryption designed ...
The United States invented the Internet, Silicon Valley firms dominate the tech industry, and much of the web’s key infrastructure resides within American borders. But ...
The question of whether violent video games cause violence in the real world has been around pretty much since they were introduced. It’s a controversial ...
Around the world, some 3 million people die annually from diseases that vaccines could have prevented. The vast majority of those deaths occur in developing countries, ...
The Justice Department and lawyers for technology giant Microsoft are waging a high-stakes war over whether federal prosecutors in the United States can gain access ...
Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle and executives from American technology giants lined up on Tuesday to urge the Obama administration to renegotiate the ...
American networking powerhouse Juniper Networks says it will remove a piece of code from some of its networking devices that is believed to have been designed ...
American officials have long warned that hackers could use digital tools to knock out a power grid. A Russian-linked group may have done exactly that ...
To hear Hillary Clinton tell it, giving law enforcement officials access to encrypted communications represents one of the great national security challenges of our time. ...
The newly discovered Ninja Lanternshark sounds like it was named by children. That’s because it was. Shark researcher Vicky Vásquez spent a year pouring over ...
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