Cyber espionage

The Microsoft-CrowdStrike partnership on cyber threat actor naming conventions is welcome, but more comprehensive reform is needed to serve defenders and the public.

Austria's position is likely to influence ongoing international efforts to establish norms and principles that govern State conduct in cyberspace, potentially leading to more robust…

A national data protection strategy would better position the United States to follow through on the promise to protect personal data as a national security imperative.

What does international law say about spying? To answer that question we have Asaf Lubin, an expert on international law and espionage. 

Assessing the United States' actions on SolarWinds and what it means for global responses to malicious cyber activities in future.

All this disclosure is arguably the best way for democracies to use true information to fight back against manipulative active measures

Germany issues major statement on cyberspace and international law, analyzed here by leading expert Professor Michael Schmitt.

What, if any, limits exist concerning digital information operations in armed conflict? Does the humanitarian legal framework adequately capture the protection needs that arise…

The SolarWinds hack could trigger fundamental changes in legal thought and state practice. Asaf Lubin sets out what that agenda can and should look like.

A legal analysis of whether the SolarWinds cyber hack violated international law, and the U.S. government's response options.

The absence to date of executive branch attribution and condemnation of the SolarWinds intrusions may be strategic silence—a tactic employed in the immediate aftermath of past…

Ongoing cyberattacks on vaccine production and distribution systems, such as those discovered by IBM yesterday, may threaten efforts to fight COVID-19. But do they break international…