Written by: Cormac O’Harrow In all likelihood, you’ve probably heard of Stuxnet: a joint CIA/Mossad cyberattack that crippled Iran’s nuclear centrifuges in 2010. You may have even heard of Natanz, another Iranian centrifuge site that was targeted earlier this year and was attacked using a Stuxnet-style virus. This too was a Mossad, the Israeli Intelligence…
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Cybersecurity Abroad: Insights from Successful Approaches
Written by: Cormac O’Harrow Since the advent of the pandemic, the explosion in the number of cyber-attacks being perpetrated in the United States has become a signal of just how quickly the classic Homeland Security narrative is changing. The data show that these incidents are on the rise as more states and individuals become capable…
Beyond the Wire and Into the Cyberspace: The DPRK’s Funding of Weapons of Mass Destruction
Written by: Cormac O’Harrow The United States has a material military force more powerful than any other in the world. We are equipped with more aircraft carriers, more tanks and more resources than any other state. But the nature of today’s evolving landscape has left us unprepared to defend tomorrow’s next great theater of combat….
Fiji’s Online Safety Act: A ‘Trojan Horse’ for Internet Censorship
By: Jack Urban In May 2018, the Republic of Fiji, led by Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama, passed into law landmark legislation geared toward creating a safe online environment free of cyberbullying, cyberstalking, trolling, fake news, harassment, and revenge porn. Despite this, the Online Safety Act (OSA) failed to get any opposition party member’s vote. Why?…
Tomorrow’s Warfare, Held Back By Today
Written by: Sam Buisman Entering into a war is like stepping into a river: while the environment is familiar, your immediate surroundings are constantly changing. War always involves a number of opposing parties engaged in armed conflict, but the means by which it is waged have changed drastically over time. “Armed” embodies a different definition…
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