A recent report published by The Washington Post revealed how China is aggressively using advanced software to surveil popular social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook, among others, in order …
Matt Devost on Hacking Entrepreneurship and Identifying Threats and Opportunities
In this OODAcast, the tables are turned as OODA Network Expert Jen Hoar interviews CEO Matt Devost and they discuss how Matt consistently identified new threats and opportunities by blending eccentric …
Cyberwar Was Coming: A Reflection on the 25 Year Old Thesis that Predicted a Generation of Cyberconflict
"You've got to read what this kid is writing out of his basement at the University of Vermont..." - recently retired CIA officer to intelligence and military colleagues in 1994 That kid was …
Information Attacks on Democracies
A recent academic paper titled "Common-Knowledge Attacks on Democracy" aims to provide an explanation for why certain Internet disinformation attacks have significant destabilizing effects in the US, …
The Navy’s vision in a new era of information warfare
The US Navy has released its new broad strategy for the domain of information warfare in the "Navy Cryptologic Cyber Warfare Community Vision." While the document contains few details, it mentions …
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Add cybersecurity to Doomsday Clock concerns, says Bulletin of Atomic Scientists
According to the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, cybersecurity issues are part of the reason why the Doomsday Clock currently stands at two minutes to midnight, which is the same critical position as …
Inside the British Army’s secret information warfare machine
While disinformation campaigns waged by Russia and ISIS have become common stories, little is discussed or understood about comparable operations conducted every day by Western countries. While the …
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New Tool Fights Fake News by Exposing the Websites That Create It
Fake news and misinformation thrives because it takes an impossible amount of time and resources to fact check, address every lie and fix every bad narrative. Research indicates that fake news also …
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Russia is Winning the Information War in Iraq and Syria: UK General
"A senior general in the international fight against ISIS has a pointed warning for Western governments with troops in Iraq and Syria: You’re being played by the Russians. The Russian and Syrian …
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Russia secretly finances news outlets in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia as part of information warfare
"The Russian government discreetly funded a group of seemingly independent news websites in Eastern Europe to pump out stories dictated to them by the Kremlin, BuzzFeed News and its reporting partners …