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Cyber Security

The existential threat from cyber-enabled information warfare

By Herbert Lin | Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Disruptive Technologies, Special Topics, Technology and Security

A Huawei phone. Credit: GillyBerlin via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY 2.0. Cropped.

Low prices keep Huawei in the 5G game despite US concerns

By Matt Field | Cyber Security, Disruptive Technologies, What We’re Reading

A screen shot taken from the Apple App Store's Grindr download page.

US government pressure on Chinese owners of Grindr: A reprise of Cold War-era homophobia?

By Matt Field | Cyber Security, What We’re Reading

The Russian government-funded TV network’s hyperbolic campaign against US 5G

By Matt Field | Cyber Security, What We’re Reading

Malware. Photo via Wikimedia Commons

Is cyberwarfare war? Insurers balk at paying for some cyberattacks

By Matt Field | Cyber Security, What We’re Reading

Illustration by Matt Field. Based in part on photo by RodCastler. CC BY-SA 3.0

Hackers keep North Korea’s weapons program running

By Matt Field | Cyber Security, What We’re Reading

3D rendering of a quantum processor. Credit: Shutterstock

Approaching Y2Q and barely a peep (or tweet) from the government

By Lindsay Rand | Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Disruptive Technologies, Voices of Tomorrow

computer hacker and code

Missing from the 2019 Missile Defense Review: Cybersecurity

By Lauren Borja | Analysis, Cyber Security

A British soldier participating in a NATO exercise. LCpl Craig Williams/(UK Ministry of Defense) via Wikimedia Commons. OGL

NATO researchers used social media to learn details of a military exercise and manipulate troops. It wasn’t very hard to do.

By Matt Field | Cyber Security, Disruptive Technologies, What We’re Reading

A black and red computer keyboard.

The government shutdown is affecting US cybersecurity

By Elisabeth Eaves | Cyber Security, What We’re Reading

A quantum processor.

Quantum computing, biotech, and climate change among threats of most concern to US

By Elisabeth Eaves | Artificial Intelligence, Biosecurity, Climate Change, Cyber Security, Nuclear Weapons, What We’re Reading

Russian President Vladimir Putin meeting with US President Donald Trump on the sidelines of a G20 meeting in Hamburg on July 7, 2017. Credit: Kremlin Presidential Executive Office

A “media mirage”: Russia deployed sophisticated marketing tactics to help Trump win

By Matt Field | Cyber Security, Disruptive Technologies, What We’re Reading