• UNDERSEA CABLESLet’s Take a Close Look at How We Protect Our Undersea Cables

    By Jessie Jacob

    We rely ever more heavily on the connectivity that cables provide and, with capacity-hungry 6G on the horizon, the need will only grow. Yet, little has been done to protect undersea cales from accidental or deliberate disruption.

  • CYBERSECURITYFour Fallacies of AI Cybersecurity

    By Chad Heitzenrater

    To date, the majority of AI cybersecurity efforts do not reflect the accumulated knowledge and modern approaches within cybersecurity, instead tending toward concepts that have been demonstrated time and again not to support desired cybersecurity outcomes. 

  • SURVEILLANCEHow Smart Toys May e Spying on Kids: What Parents Need to Know

    By Angelika Jacobs

    Toniebox, Tiptoi, and Tamagotchi are smart toys, offering interactive play through software and internet access. However, many of these toys raise privacy concerns, and some even collect extensive behavioral data about children.

  • CYBERSECURITYVulnerabilities in a Popular Security Protocol

    By Katie Ismael

    A widely used security protocol that dates back to the days of dial-up Internet has vulnerabilities that could expose large numbers of networked devices to an attack and allow an attacker to gain control of traffic on an organization’s network.

  • ARGUMENT: ELECTION INTERFERENCEThe Hacking of the Trump Campaign Is 2016 All Over Again

    Hackers affiliated with the intelligence service of a foreign county hack the campaign of a candidate for the U.S. presidency, scoop damaging material, and disseminate it to reporters. This describes both the 2016 hacking of the Clinton campaign by Russian hackers, and the 2024 hacking of the Trump campaign by Iranian hackers. But there are differences: In 2016, “The press seized on the hacked emails,” Quinta Jurecic writes, “and the Trump campaign capitalized exuberantly on Russia’s involvement in the election.” Trump called on Russia to do even more. Now, the press has behaved more responsibly, and “Kamala Harris has not yet weighed in on the campaign trail with any winking suggestions that Iran might want to continue rummaging around in the Trump campaign’s systems.”

  • ELECTION SECURITYForeign Actors Could Sow 'Chaos' in the 2024 Presidential Election, Cybersecurity Expert Says

    By Tanner Stening and Cesareo Contreras

    In a tightly contested election, a “hack and leak” campaigns can be hugely “consequential” at the margins, says an expert.

  • ELECTION SECURITYAI Disinformation: Lessons from the U.K. Election

    By Sam Stockwell

    The record-breaking 2024 figure of about 4 billion voters eligible to go to the polls across more than 60 countries coincided with the full-fledged arrival and widespread uptake of multimodal generative artificial intelligence (AI), which enables almost anyone to make fake images, videos and sound.

  • ELECTION INTEGRITYProtecting Our Elections Against Tech-Enabled Disinformation

    By Tom Rogers

    Electoral administrators around the world are dealing with a radically changed democratic landscape. Concerns focus on the pervasive presence of disinformation and false narratives, the rise of new technologies such as generative artificial intelligence, occasional madcap conspiracy theories, threats to electoral workers, and the need to maintain citizens’ confidence in electoral outcomes.

  • ELECTION SECURITYState Lawmakers Eye Promise, Pitfalls of AI Ahead of November Elections

    By Kevin Hardy

    This presidential election cycle is the first since generative AI — a form of artificial intelligence that can create new images, audio and video — became widely available. Artificial intelligence proved the ‘topic du jour’ at the largest annual meeting of state lawmakers this week in Kentucky.

  • CYBERSECURITYAre Mass Layoffs and Data Breaches Connected?

    Layoffs create conditions where disgruntled employees face added stress or job insecurity, so they are more likely to engage in risky behaviors that heighten the company’s vulnerability to data breaches.

  • CYBERSECURITYGet Ready for AI-supercharged Hacking

    By Niusha Shafiabady and Mamoun Alazab

    Artificial intelligence can supercharge the effect of hacking attacks. As use of AI widens, people and organizations will have to become much more careful in guarding against its malicious use. So far, the only answer to all this is increased vigilance, by individuals and their employers. Governments can help by publicizing the problem. They should.

  • CYBERSECURITYEvaluating Cybersecurity Risks Associated with EV Fast-Charging Equipment

    Engineers have identified cybersecurity vulnerabilities with electric vehicles (EVs) using direct current fast-charging systems, the quickest, commonly used way to charge electric vehicles. The high-voltage technology relies on power line communication (PLC) technology to transmit smart-grid data between vehicles and charging equipment.

  • ELECTION INTEGRITYRussian Election Meddlers Hurting Biden, Helping Trump, U.S. Intelligence Warns

    By Jeff Seldin

    Russia is turning to a familiar playbook in its attempt to sway the outcome of the upcoming U.S. presidential election, looking for ways to boost the candidacy of former President Donald Trump by disparaging the campaign of incumbent President Joe Biden, according to American intelligence officials.

  • SPACE SECURITYTo Guard Against Cyberattacks in Space, Researchers Ask ‘What If?’

    By Patrick Lin

    If space systems such as GPS were hacked and knocked offline, much of the world would instantly be returned to the communications and navigation technologies of the 1950s. Yet space cybersecurity is largely invisible to the public at a time of heightened geopolitical tensions.

  • RANSOMWARENew Report Advises How Ransomware Victims Can Be Better Supported

    By Olivia Miller

    A new report aims to shed light on the experience of victims of ransomware and identify several key factors that typically shape these experiences.