Our lives will be more and more influenced by technology, from widely used internet-connected consumer products to major infrastructure. While this is exciting, it is also a reason for concern, since cyber-attacks can lead to breaches of our privacy as well as to financial or other types of damage. This illustrates the importance of making…
The rapid and dramatic propagation of recent attacks such as WannaCry and NotPetya has emphasized the systemic risk our companies and societies are exposed to and the clear intrication of geopolitical and cyber risks. Online influence operations, propaganda and information manipulations have revealed the potential for destabilization of social networks. Cyber threats are mutlidimensional, multifaceted…
On 23 March 2018, US President Donald Trump promulgated an Act passed expressly, and almost by surprise, by Congress in Washington DC. The title of the law is the ‘CLOUD Act’. The acronym stands for Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data. A play on words around the well-known technology of cloud computing, something not everyone is likely…
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