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How Chinese Cyber Espionage Is Powering Its Cognitive Warfare Program In 2026, the contours of conflict have changed. China’s cyber espionage apparatus is no longer a mere data-theft machine—it has become a foundational engine for cognitive ...
Why Venezuela, Iran, and the Digital Battlefield May Be Reframing Global Statecraft In early January 2026, the United States carried out Operation Absolute Resolve, combining combined elite airborne forces, covert intelligence, and, reportedly, cyber effects that ...
Today’s geopolitical realities are that cyber power sits alongside diplomacy and military force as a fundamental instrument of statecraft.
It appears that Washington will reposition itself to a more unilateral, capability-driven, and strategically offensive-leaning posture.
China’s National Internet ID: Increased Control and Strategic Competition In the evolving cyber competition between great powers, technological shifts often lead geopolitical realignment. China’s latest policy initiative called the National Network Identity Authentication system (aka, Internet ...
Weaponizing the Private Sector: A Cautionary Tale for Private Sector Risk and Global Norms By now, it’s clear that the incoming cyber strategy crafted under President Donald Trump is poised to reshape not just how the ...
Do Tariffs Solicit Cyber Attention? Escalating Risk in a Fractured Supply Chain Regardless of criticisms of tariff imposition as a tool of foreign policy, it is clear that the United States’ use of them is viewed ...
China’s 2026 Cybersecurity Law Amendments: A Risk for U.S. Organizations The new amendments to China’s Cybersecurity Law (CSL), set to take effect on January 1, 2026, should register as a notable shift. The old CSL, which ...
A recent October 22, 2025 article revealed that the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) will be laying off nearly all of its 95 employees within the Stakeholder Engagement Division (SED), effectively dismantling three of ...
Law Firms Are Prime Targets for APT When the suspected nation state hackers came for Williams & Connolly, they didn’t do it with a crowbar and a ransom note. They slipped through an unpatched crease in ...
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