Virtual Threats in the Real World: The Challenge of Cyberspace

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Mar 21, 2025

To win the AI race, the US needs an all-of-the-above energy strategy

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Joseph Webster

To ensure US AI leadership, the United States must harness all forms of energy, allow a level playing field, and remove red tape constraining the buildout of critical enablers, especially transmission lines and grid enhancing technologies.

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Virtual Threats in the Real World: The Challenge of Cyberspace

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Feb 26, 2025

How the Houthis’ strikes on US MQ-9 Reaper drones serve a wider regional agenda

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Leonardo Jacopo Maria Mazzucco

The United States needs to adjust its drone deployment strategy to ensure that MQ-9 Reapers are less vulnerable to the militant group’s attacks. 

Defense Policy
Defense Technologies

Virtual Threats in the Real World: The Challenge of Cyberspace

New Atlanticist
Feb 18, 2025

What’s missing from the AI debate? Patience.

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Trey Herr

The AI sector is evolving quickly, fueled by a self-reinforcing cycle of investment, commentary, and ambition. In this race for compute, patience is important to sorting out sustainable innovation from speculative excess.

Artificial Intelligence
Defense Technologies

Democracy & Tech Initiative

The DFRLab’s Democracy & Tech Initiative creates policy practices that align global stakeholders toward tech and governance that reinforces, rather than undermines, open societies. This initiative builds on the DFRLab’s leadership in the OSINT field, empowering global communities to promote transparency and accountability.

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New Atlanticist

Feb 3, 2010

Virtual Threats in the Real World: The Challenge of Cyberspace

By Derek Reveron

Within just the last decade, people have become as dependent on the virtual world for their daily activities as they are dependent on the physical world for human activities. Consider the implications for yourself when the network is down, cell phone calls are dropped, or a virus crashes your network.

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

NATOSource

Feb 1, 2010

Navy Stands Up Fleet Cyber Command, Reestablishes U.S. 10th Fleet

By the U.S. Navy

From the U.S. Navy: The chief of naval operations (CNO) officially established U.S. Fleet Cyber Command (FCC) and recommissioned U.S. 10th Fleet during a ceremony at Fort George G. Meade, Md., Jan. 29. At the ceremony, Adm. Gary Roughead, CNO, also named Vice Adm. Bernard J. McCullough III the commander of both FCC and 10th […]

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

NATOSource

Feb 1, 2010

Secretary Clinton on the Future of European Security

By the U.S. Department of State

From the U.S. Department of State: [T]he institutions that guarded Europe’s and North America’s security during the 20th century were not designed with 21st century threats in mind. New dangers have emerged, such as global terrorism, including cyber terrorism and nuclear terrorism; climate change; global criminal networks that traffic in weapons, drugs, and people; threats […]

Cybersecurity Energy & Environment

NATOSource

Jan 29, 2010

China, US, Russia in Cyber Arms Race: McAfee

By AFP

From AFP: China, the United States and Russia are among 20 countries locked in a cyberspace arms race and gearing up for possible Internet hostilities, according to the head of web security firm McAfee. Dave DeWalt, chief executive and president of the US firm said the traditional defensive stance of government computer infrastructures has shifted […]

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

NATOSource

Jan 28, 2010

U.S. Navy Establishes Cyber Forces

By defpro.com

From defpro.com: Navy Cyber Forces (CYBERFOR) was established in a ceremony at Joint Expeditionary Base, Little Creek-Fort Story Jan. 26. Vice Adm. H. Denby Starling II, assumed command of CYBERFOR and continues to serve as commander of Naval Network Warfare Command (NETWARCOM)… “It is warfighting battle space and supremacy in this battle space will ensure […]

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

NATOSource

Jan 26, 2010

US Urges Shared Cyber-Attack Defence

By the Financial Times

From the Financial Times: The US and its Nato allies have been urged to collaborate more intensely to fend off the threat of cyber-attacks in the aftermath of the alleged Chinese assault on Google. The Pentagon’s top cyber-strategist said shared warning systems had to be established and government contacts broadened. In an interview with the […]

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

NATOSource

Jan 14, 2010

Web Is New Front Among Cold War Foes

By the Wall Street Journal

From the Wall Street Journal: Alleged attacks on Google Inc. from China redraw the battle lines between the U.S. and its former Cold War adversaries, who are now squaring off on a new front: cyberspace… Past attacks directed at the private sector—like Chinese and Russian efforts to surveil the U.S. electric grid and Chinese penetrations […]

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

NATOSource

Jan 8, 2010

Global Hacker Threat Comes from Russia?

By Russia Today

From Russia Today: Cyber attacks are now considered as dangerous as terrorism and nuclear proliferation. Russia and China are the most serious sources of cyber threats, according to a recent NATO report… A notorious ring known as the RBN, or Russian Business Network, was set up in St. Petersburg in the late 1990. As well […]

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

NATOSource

Dec 13, 2009

French army sides with Mozilla in Microsoft email war

By Reuters

From Reuters: A new email client unveiled by Mozilla this week contains code from an unusual source — the French military, which decided the open source product was more secure than Microsoft’s (MSFT.O) rival Outlook… The military found Mozilla’s open source design permitted France to build security extensions, while Microsoft’s secret, proprietary software allowed no […]

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

NATOSource

Dec 11, 2009

Amb. Hunter: “they want to keep the United States… as a European power”

By the Council on Foreign Relations

From the Council on Foreign Relations: Everybody in Europe understands that managing the future of Russia in regard to Europe can only be done with American engagement and, yes, to a great extent, American leadership. And they want to keep the United States equally engaged in Europe as a European power, not just as an […]

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