Data Centers, Telecommunications Networks, and Space-Based Systems
Modernizing DHS’s SRMA Role for the Communications and IT Sectors
United States Secret Service
AI Is a Gift to Cyber Scammers and Nation-State Hackers This Holiday Season
This holiday season, the Grinch is using a computer to steal Christmas. The Department of Treasury’s Office of Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Protection (OCCIP) released its annual consumer...
Policy Briefs
The lights are still blinking red—Sunni Islamists and Iran are determined to attack the homeland
As the US election comes down the final stretch, the radical Islamic terrorism threat continues to metastasize—at home and abroad. On October 8, the FBI arrested an Afghan man who authorities...
Op-eds
U.S. Charges Pakistani Man With Iran-Backed Plot to Assassinate Government Officials
The United States charged a Pakistani national with a thwarted Iran-backed plot to assassinate American government officials, the U.S. Justice Department disclosed on August 6. The...
Flash Briefs
Iran Plots Assassination of Trump
Latest Developments Iran plotted to assassinate former President Donald Trump in recent weeks, U.S. authorities told CNN in a July 16 report. Unrelated to the failed assassination attempt against Trump...
Flash Briefs
Lawmakers Urge Blinken to Hold Turkey to Account for Assault on U.S. Citizens
More than 70 U.S. lawmakers signed a bipartisan letter on May 15 urging Secretary of State Antony Blinken to hold Ankara to account for the 2017 assault on American citizens by Turkish security officials....
Policy Briefs
Reading the UNGA tea leaves
America’s enemies and adversaries reveal their intentions
Op-eds
We Have a New National Cybersecurity Strategy. Now What?
The new National Cybersecurity Strategy is clear and concise, laying out the case for a more robust and engaged approach to defending our national critical infrastructure from a growing list of threats...
Op-eds
How Washington Can Fend Off the Cyber-Threats of the Future
Thanks to the increased scale, scope, and frequency of cyber-enabled attacks across the American economic landscape, we now see the risks associated with cyber-enabled economic warfare more clearly.
Op-eds
‘The Lazarus Heist’ Is the Gripping Story of North Korean Cybercrime
Worryingly, Washington’s concern does not rise to the level of the danger.
Op-eds
Ransomware Rising: Steps for The Public and Private Sector to Address the Growing Threat
Last weekend, a major U.S. healthcare provider, Universal Health Services, was the victim of what may have been the largest ransomware attack in the history of the United States. The attack caused the company...
Insights
U.S. Steps Up Pressure Against Russian Crypto Abuse
The Trump administration this month issued two sets of penalties against Russian actors engaged in illicit cryptocurrency transactions. These episodes highlight how U.S. adversaries ranging from cybercriminals...
Policy Briefs
Protecting the financial system against the coming cyber storms
Excerpt Moving the U.S. Secret Service from the Department of Homeland Security back to the Department of the Treasury is critically important in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.)...
Op-eds
Federal lawsuits target both Iran and private firms for allegedly financing Taliban and Al-Qaeda operations that killed U.S. troops
On December 27, 2019, more than 500 members of American military families, including over 100 Gold Star families, filed two lawsuits: one against the Islamic Republic of Iran, and another against eight multinational...
Op-eds
Lawrence of Arabia may have been murdered by British secret service, new film suggests
A controversial new biopic about T.E. Lawrence suggests British secret service may have murdered the famous desert warrior. The British army officer and...
Op-eds
U.S. Treasury Department Veteran Daniel Glaser Joins FDD’s Center on Sanctions and Illicit Finance
(Washington, D.C., Feb. 6, 2017) – Daniel L. Glaser, a 20-year U.S. Treasury Department veteran who mos...
Press Releases
Anti-Money Laundering and Terror Finance Expert Joins FDD’s Center on Sanctions and Illicit Finance
Washington, DC -- John Cassara, a 26-year federal intelligence and law enforcement veteran and expert o...
Press Releases
A Global Perspective on Cyber Threats
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Legislative Testimonies
The Costs and Benefits of the NSA
Should Americans fear the possible abuse of the intercept power of the National Security Agency at Fort Meade, Maryland? Absolutely. In the midst of the unfolding scandal at the IRS, we understan...
Op-eds
An Unholy Alliance
Germany appeared over the past several months to have finally fallen in line behind European Union efforts to stiffen economic sanctions against Iran. But in late October a group of German parlia...