The United States Army is not adequately prepared to defend its installations in the continental U.S. from emerging threats, according to a report published Tuesday by the nonpartisan RAND Corporation.
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As schools and school districts increasingly rely on complex information technology systems for teaching and operations, they are collecting more student data electronically. A recent government report says thousands of students’ personal information has been compromised in nearly 100 data breaches.
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The head of a House cybersecurity subcommittee warned social media moguls that she is concerned that their platforms are being used to target and spread misinformation to Black voters in the upcoming election, a letter she released Wednesday said.
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A bipartisan congressional task force has recommended that the Department of Defense prioritize investing in artificial intelligence, supply chain resiliency and cyberwarfare in order to deal with imminent threats from China and Russia.
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Election cybersecurity could be compromised in the supply chain for voting systems, warns a report published this week by a nonprofit global policy think tank.
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Foreign hackers infiltrating U.S. electric and gas infrastructure has long been a concern of intelligence officials and lawmakers. With a pandemic raging across the United States and the world, those concerns have been heightened.
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The United States is designating resources to develop artificial intelligence (AI) for cybersecurity, but European countries are slower to follow.
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A growing team inside U.S. Army Europe is fighting fake news and misinformation.
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The U.S. and France, like many Western countries, are fighting disinformation campaigns from foreign countries, mainly Russia, but their policy approach to combat the problem are markedly different – the U.S. focuses on voluntary efforts to help people distinguish correct information from disinformation, while France has instituted new regulations on the news media.
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As the United States and adversaries devote more resources to the development of technology, the lines of what is considered an act of war per its traditional U.S. Code definition may become blurred.
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