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SURVEILLANCEFrom Exporting Spyware to Surveilling Activists – How Democracies Became the New Digital Authoritarians
“Digital authoritarianism” refers to governments using technology for surveillance and censorship to repress dissent. China remains the master practitioner, but democracies, too — in particular, India and Israel — are beginning to repress their citizens with the same tools and export them abroad.
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PERSISTENT SURVEILLANCEThe Open Signal: How Mobile Phone Location Data Can Expose and Endanger American Troops
The architecture of the commercial mobile ecosystem favors exposure over concealment. As long as warfighters carry devices designed for convenience inside an economy designed for surveillance, the United States will remain vulnerable to enemies who can turn a phone’s signal into intelligence and intelligence into a strike.
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CYBERSECURITYAfter the Canvas Breach, Security Takes Center Stage for SaaS Providers
When a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform fails, it doesn’t just fail one customer; it fails whole sectors. That’s the security problem hiding inside organizations becoming more and more dependent on SaaS providers.
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AIThe Making of a Mythos: AI-Enabled Cybersecurity and the Emerging Architecture of Access
Anthropic’s release of the frontier AI model Claude Mythos Preview has caused significant trepidation, as its autonomous code-reasoning capabilities surfaced previously undetected vulnerabilities across major operating systems and software infrastructure. The architecture of access, being constructed around such capabilities, creates an asymmetry in access. India needs to secure critical infrastructure by updating, modernizing or replacing legacy systems.
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AIScaling Intelligence: The Security Foundations Beneath America’s AI Ambitions Are Cracking
Artificial intelligence diffusion is stress-testing the assumptions that underpin U.S. cybersecurity. Inspecting those foundations isn’t a precaution against scaling AI—it’s the precondition for doing it with confidence.
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IRAN NUKESFast 16 Malware Aimed at Undermining Proliferant State Nuclear Weapons Programs, Iran was a Credible Target
The Fast 16 malware looks to be targeting a nuclear weapon program’s hydrodynamic calculation group working on implosion systems using weapon-grade uranium as the nuclear explosive material.
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ELECTION SECURITYClear and Present Danger: The Dismantling of America's Election Protections
The only beneficiaries of making American elections less secure are malign foreign actors eager to interfere, and malicious domestic actors bent on exploiting the opening the administration has created for them.
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ELECTION SECURITYFor the First Time in a Decade, the Next Election Could Be Less Secure Than the One Preceding It
The disbanding of federal offices that counter foreign influence operations make it harder for local officials to learn of threats to election infrastructure, like AI-enabled targeting of voting tabulation systems or deepfakes of candidates. Little is known about whether the proactive cyber deterrence that has defined U.S. elections for much of the past decade remains in place in any other form.
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CYBERSECURITY EDUCATIONNational Security Agency Names CSUF a Center in Cyber Defense Education
The National Security Agency has designated Cal State Fullerton as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense education to prepare and train qualified cybersecurity professionals.
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AI & CYBERSECURITYAI Has Crossed a Threshold – What Claude Mythos Means for the Future of Cybersecurity
The limit of what artificial intelligence can achieve, known as frontier AI, has crossed another threshold. AI can now plan and execute sophisticated cyber operations with minimal guidance at speeds far beyond human capability.
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CYBERSECURITYNew Chip Can Protect Wireless Biomedical Devices from Quantum Attacks
Ultra-efficient chip design enables extremely strong cryptography algorithms to run on energy-constrained edge devices.
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MARITIME CYBERSECURITYResearchers Find Training Gaps Impacting Maritime Cybersecurity Readiness
Whether it’s a fire or a flood, a ship’s crew can only rely on itself and its training in emergencies at sea. The same is true for crews facing digital threats on oil tankers, cargo ships, and other commercial vessels.
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CHINA WATCHWondering Where China’s Cyber Effort Will Go Next? Just Read the Five-Year Plan
Adversaries sometimes declare strategic priorities, yet cyber incidents that align with them are not assessed accordingly. We should in fact be guarding against intrusions before they happen by taking note of foreign and industrial policies that indicate where they’re likely to concentrate.
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CHINA WATCHIf We Can’t Name China’s Cyberattacks, We Lose Trust in Ourselves
In the space of just a few days, two big US tech companies took different approaches to China’s cyberattacks. Palo Alto Networks generically referred to a global cyber espionage operation by unnamed actors while Google specifically named China as the globe’s leading cyber security threat. That inconsistency hurts everyone but China.
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CHINA WATCHAllfare: China’s Whole-of-Nation Strategy
To analyze how states exert their influence, scholars often compartmentalize actions into rigid analytical frameworks, which obscures the holistic scope of the challenge.
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The long view
AI & CYBERSECURITYAI Has Crossed a Threshold – What Claude Mythos Means for the Future of Cybersecurity
The limit of what artificial intelligence can achieve, known as frontier AI, has crossed another threshold. AI can now plan and execute sophisticated cyber operations with minimal guidance at speeds far beyond human capability.