Facebook fail: Outage causes pre-Black Friday and Cyber Monday scare for online retailers

Facebook and their social media apps Messenger and Instagram encountered an outage with their ad manager platform and was later reported by Facebook to be the result of a “server configuration”. This meant that some businesses and media buyers were unable to launch their holiday ad campaigns, manage existing campaigns, or track performance during the […]

US Cyber Command starts issuing warnings to Russian election meddlers

There’s never been any doubt that cyber warfare is a unique facet of the national defense apparatus that comes with unique challenges and equally specific best practices. However, there’s something to be said for the Naval tradition of firing “a shot across the bow” of your opponent. The phrase usually refers to firing a warning […]

Pentagon commits to NATO’s cyber defense

Washington, D.C., United States—The Pentagon is about to offer its cyberwarfare technology and capabilities to the service of its NATO allies. U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is expected to make the announcement after a meeting with his NATO colleagues later in the week. The decision follows an agreement reached during a NATO summit in the […]

Southeast Asia stands up new regional cybersecurity center in response to attacks

On September 14th, ASEAN, a Southeast Asian regional cooperative consisting of ten member-nations, opened the ASEAN-Japan Cyber Security Capacity Building Centre in Bangkok, Thailand. The Centre is designed to train personnel from member countries in countering cyber threats. The coursework, designed by experts in Japan, will focus on analysis, forensics, and cyber defense. The Centre […]

Op-Ed: Is machine learning the future of national security, or the cyber equivalent of the F-22?

Article by NEWSREP guest author Sean McWillie — In May 2018, Defense Secretary Mattis sent a still unreleased memo to President Trump, urging a national level strategy for artificial intelligence (AI). This opaqueness at the national level regarding advances in artificial intelligence indicates two problems: an over-estimation of the harms and benefits such technology can provide, and a lack […]

United States Cyber Command: The new functional combatant command

The Department of Defense recently added the United States Cyber Command to its list of combatant commands. This is a direct response to the growing number of threats found in the cyber realm, from both state actors as well as independent ones. The program was initially meant to be defensive in nature, but it will […]

TechVets Teaching Veterans About the Cyber Security Trade

For many veterans, the prospect of finding a good job is difficult when leaving the service as many of their skills don’t translate into the private sector. Finally, something is being done about matching the skillsets of military veterans with technology and the skills shortage in cybersecurity. In the past 12 months alone, there have […]

UK Accuses Russian Military of “Malicious Cyber Attack”

The British Foreign Minister has pointed the blame at the Russian government, specifically their military for a global cyber attack that ripped thru European businesses a year ago, accusing the Russians of “weaponizing information” in the realm of cyber warfare. Foreign Minister Tariq Ahmad said, “the U.K. government judges that the Russian government, specifically the […]

These are the 3 tenants of Russia’s ongoing cyber campaigns in the United States

According to multiple sources, including Secretary of State under Donald Trump, Rex Tillerson, the Kremlin’s varied digital campaign against the United States remains ongoing. While the topic has becoming a politically charged one within the United States, the informed debate is not about whether or not Russia has worked to manipulate events within the United […]

A quick look at US cyber warfare preparedness

Cyber warfare is a growing segment of operations globally. One that, unlike conventional warfare, our country is under-staffed and unprepared to engage with enemies in. While our current deterrents to conventional and nuclear engagements may be effective (if potentially catastrophic) they are not nearly as effective in cyberspace, because digital attacks take time to trace […]