• National 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.

  • AI 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.

  • New 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.

  • Researchers 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.

  • Wondering 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.

  • If 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.

  • Allfare: 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.

  • On Plum Island, DOE Trains Utilities, Protection Teams to Defend the Grid

    Plum Island, just off New York’s northeastern coast, is a sparsely populated outpost with a century-long legacy, stretching back to the Spanish-American War, of playing an important role in helping protect the nation. More recently, scientists have used Plum Island to research lethal pathogens – threatening both humans and farm animals — for which there is no vaccines or treatment. Now, the island hosts exercises which train power companies, industry experts, and government officials to respond to disruptive cyberattacks.

  • Hacking the Grid: How Digital Sabotage Turns Infrastructure into a Weapon

    The darkness that swept over the Venezuelan capital in the predawn hours of Jan. 3, 2026, signaled a profound shift in the nature of modern conflict: the convergence of physical and cyber warfare. The blackout was the result of a precise and invisible manipulation of the industrial control systems that manage the flow of electricity. This synchronization of traditional military action with advanced cyber warfare represents a new chapter in international conflict, one where lines of computer code that manipulate critical infrastructure are among the most potent weapons.

  • Protecting Next-Gen Reactors

    As the United States accelerates deployment of advanced and small modular reactors (A/SMRs), the nuclear energy sector is embracing a digital future. While digital systems provide operators with big benefits, they can also create vulnerabilities that enable criminals to access critical infrastructure.

  • AI-enabled Intrusions: What Anthropic’s Disclosure Really Means

    Last week, AI company Anthropic reported with ‘high confidence’ that a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group had weaponized Anthropic’s own AI tools to run a largely automated cyberattack on several technology firms and government agencies. The September operation is the first publicly known case of an AI system conducting target reconnaissance with only minimal human direction.

  • Researchers Unveil First-Ever Defense Against Cryptanalytic Attacks on AI

    Security researchers have developed the first functional defense mechanism capable of protecting against “cryptanalytic” attacks used to “steal” the model parameters that define how an AI system works.

  • Building Trust into Tech: A Framework for Sovereign Resilience

    Governments are facing a critical question: who can be trusted to build and manage their countries’ most sensitive systems? Vendor choices, for everything from cloud infrastructure to identity platforms, are no longer just commercial; they are strategic.

  • U.S.–China Cyber Relations and the Weaponization of Microsoft Platforms

    Cyber tensions between the United States and China show Microsoft’s central yet fragile role in global cybersecurity, where its platforms serve as both assets and targets. While both nations have exploited vulnerabilities within the platform to conduct cyber-espionage against each other, China has been particularly persistent in its operations.

  • Study Finds Smarter Way to Train Employees to Thwart Phishing Scams

    Companies often send out simulated—or fake—phishing emails to employees to see who takes the bait and click. Those who fall for such scams typically receive an on-the-spot lesson meant to help them recognize suspicious messages the next time. But new research finds that approach might not be the best way to help employees learn from their mistakes.