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Israel SitRep: August 16, 2024

Today’s Issue: | IDF Spokesman: Army Has Improved Readiness, Preparing to Strike in ‘Lebanon, and in All Arenas’ | IAF Destroys Some 30 Gaza Targets in Past Day | Analysis: IDF Making Significant...

Google Report Exposes Iranian Hacker Attacks on Israeli and U.S. Targets

The Iranian regime has stepped up its malicious online attacks against Israel and the United States — including against both parties’ political campaigns — according to an...

How To Pose as a Reasonable Critic of Israel (With a Little Help From the Media)

Mark Perlmutter is an orthopedic surgeon from North Carolina. He is Jewish but believes that Zionism is “sadism” and “the moral equivalent of Nazism.” Feroze...

China’s Internet-of-Everything Gambit and Battle for LiDAR

The Azerbaijanis, Not the Azeris, Are Hosting COP29

The Republic of Azerbaijan will host the annual  UN  Climate Change Conference known as COP29 in November 2024. For many who will attend COP29 and follow the process, this will be their first...

Arming Consumers With Cybersecurity Data Can Protect U.S. Critical Infrastructure

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) earlier this month approved the U.S. Cyber Trust Mark program, a voluntary cybersecurity labeling initiative for Internet of Things (IoT) devices. This much-needed...

Much Ado About ‘Somethings’

China-Linked Influence Operation Endures Despite Takedowns

Iran has upped its cyberattacks: It’s time for Biden to strike back

Iran has dramatically stepped up its cyberattacks against the United States since Oct. 7, prompting little to no response from the White House. Like the rockets, drones and anti-ship missiles from Tehran’s...

The Missing Middle

Addressing the Absence of Firmware Security

Remarks by Matt Pottinger at Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation’s China Forum 2023

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Building Partner Capabilities for Cyber Operations

Blind Sided

A Reconceptualization of the Role of Emerging Technologies in Shaping Information Operations in the Gray Zone

At the United Nations, Israel is ‘the Jew Among the Nations’

China presented itself as a champion of Muslim rights last Tuesday, when it asked the United Nations Security Council to hold a special session to address an Israeli minister’s visit to the Temple Mount,...

‘Adopt’ an Iranian Political Prisoner to Save a Life

The regime kills much more easily in darkness.

Possible Futures for Russia’s CEEW Playbook

The Weaponization of Capital

Strategic Implications of China’s Private Equity/Venture Capital Playbook

Putin Puts Europe Into an Energy Vise So Tight That Some Countries Are Chopping Wood

In addition to nuclear blackmail, Russia is using natural gas to put Europe in a hammerlock.

Time to Sanction the Kremlin’s Ministry of Truth

When media platforms obey their paymasters’ orders to become complicit in their crimes, they are no longer media.

U.S. Standards Body Reaches Critical Milestone for Mitigating the Quantum Threat, But More Work Is Needed

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced at the beginning of July the successful testing and selection of the first four algorithms that will become part of NIST’s post-quantum...

Russia sanctions grow faster, larger than South Africa sanctions in 1980s

When I lived in Moscow, I worked for Bloomberg, banked at Citibank, used my Visa card at Ikea, lunched at McDonald’s and flew home on Aeroflot to New York. As of this week, all that is over. As more than...