U.S. law enforcement confirmed on March 27 that Iranian hackers operating under the name Handala compromised the FBI director’s personal email. The group claims to be an independent, pro-Palestinian...
The agency responsible for defending against Iranian cyberattacks is running at less than half strength, so perhaps cyber strikes against two U.S. healthcare companies in two weeks should not be surprising....
Ransomware attacks conducted by criminals are persistently hitting airports, schools, and 911 dispatch centers, while foreign adversaries probe our critical infrastructure every day. Yet, two programs...
America is letting its adversaries win the information war. The latest blow to U.S. efforts to fight this war came in August, when the U.S. intelligence community learned of the reduction in size and reorganization...
Hackers are attacking America’s K-12 schools and whole communities are paying the price. Cyberattacks against school districts in Texas and Michigan disrupted classes for multiple days in the middle...
It took years of research and advocacy before education leaders realized that foreign funding in education can have negative consequences. China’s Confucius Institutes were among the first examples of...
Last week, the Canadian government issued its 2025 report assessing money laundering and terrorist financing risks in Canada. The report noted that Hezbollah was using both illicit and otherwise...
America’s technology prowess is built on its people, but Washington is terminating many of the researchers and engineers driving U.S. progress in AI, quantum technology, advanced manufacturing, and semiconductors....
Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence (MOI) serves as the long arm of the world’s foremost state sponsor of terrorism. Washington should treat it accordingly. On March 25, the U.S. Department of the Treasury...
Despite the recent successes of federal law enforcement agencies, the number of attempted attacks underscores these adversaries’ determination. Since the October 8 arrest of an Afghan man...
Following several months of often violent pro-Hamas protests across the United States, the U.S. Director of National Intelligence, Avril Haines, stated on July 9 that the Islamic...
A Maryland court issued a temporary restraining order on May 28 against an employee of Iran’s Interests Section in Washington — the Islamic Republic’s de facto consular office...
A Jewish teacher hid in a locked classroom on May 16 when 400 anti-Israel student protesters rampaged through a Bronx high school campus, just one week after the House convened a hearing on K-12 antisemitism....
The Biden administration was consulting with violent antisemites on the best ways to counter antisemitism. Nihad Awad, the director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, delivered a speech last...
The Russian disinformation machine has spun its latest web of lies. Last week, the Russian Defense Ministry accused the U.S. of preparing to target Russian troops with drones carrying malaria-bearing...
It took quite a bit longer than it should have, but the State Department finally released its 2021 Country Reports on Terrorism. As ever, the document covers the countries that experienced attacks, those...
The Wagner Group isn’t playing
As currently used, the program is a missed opportunity, especially when America needs to be strengthening its relationships abroad.
Employees at Google and Amazon launched a petition drive this week to persuade both companies to end their contracts with the world’s only Jewish state. Google and Amazon can send a powerful...
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization, acknowledged in mid-June that there was a “premature push” to dismiss the theory that COVID-19 initially spread from...