The internet has upended the way citizens, governments, and businesses interact.
What are Cyberspace and Cybersecurity?
Explore the origins and future challenges of cyberspace.
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Should the Internet Respect National Borders?
Learn more about the debate over a free and open internet.
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Social Media: Revolutionizing Communication
Social media has connected people at lightning speeds and upended long-held monopolies on information. But like past innovations, it has also created major societal challenges.
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How Companies and Governments Do (and Don’t) Protect Your Data
See how insufficient privacy laws leave your personal data vulnerable online.
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The Growing Threat of Cyberattacks
Countries are racing to build dangerous new cyberweapons.
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How Cyberspace and Cybersecurity Affect You
Explore how cybersecurity breaches can affect your daily life.
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With New Digital Tools, Even Nonexperts Can Wage Cyberattacks
Hackers are discovering that it is far more profitable to hold your data hostage than it is to steal it.
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Google for Months Kept Secret a Bug That Imperiled the Personal Data of Google+ Users
Google kept quiet for more than six months about its discovery of a bug that put at risk the personal data of hundreds of thousands of Google+ users.
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The Worst Cybersecurity Breaches of 2018
Here are the big digital security dramas that have played out so far this year.
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Phishing Is the Internet’s Most Successful Con
Tricking people out of sensitive information online is far too easy.
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Transforming Election Cybersecurity
The events of the 2016 U.S. election demonstrate that more high-level political action is required to manage real and perceived cyber vulnerabilities in election systems.
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Getting the International Development Community to Care About Cybersecurity
International assistance programs rely on digital technologies to deliver food, housing, education, and a host of other services to the developing world. However, few donors or recipients incorporate cybersecurity into their activities. That’s a problem.
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Cyber Operations Tracker
A database of publicly known state-sponsored cyber incidents since 2005.
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