Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet

Over the past year or two, someone has been probing the defenses of the companies that run critical pieces of the Internet. These probes take the form of precisely calibrated attacks designed to determine exactly how well these companies can defend themselves, and what would be required to take them down. We don’t know who is doing this, but it… Continue reading Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet

Misuse of Language: ‘Cyber’; When War is Not a War, and a Weapon is Not a Weapon

In this Threatpost op-ed, Dave Dittrich and Katherine Carpenter discuss the imprecision in language surrounding “cyber war” and “cyber weapons,” and explain how this may contribute to bad law and policy. Continue reading Misuse of Language: ‘Cyber’; When War is Not a War, and a Weapon is Not a Weapon

We Show You The Future Of Hacking And War On VICELAND’s ‘Cyberwar’

Motherboard’s former editor Ben Makuch goes into cyberspace to investigate the biggest stories of hacks, hackers, cybercrimiminals and spies. Continue reading We Show You The Future Of Hacking And War On VICELAND’s ‘Cyberwar’