Ben Buchanan looks at American Exceptionalism in the form of the NOBUS approach to signals intelligence in his contribution to the Hoover Institution’s Aegis Paper Series. There is a tension between the needs of nations in the information age to both secure and steal communications. The United States has traditionally met this by exploiting a …
Short answer is bad, but for more reasons than first come to mind. Wikileaks recently released a vault of documents allegedly from the CIA relating to their cyber capabilities[1]. This is not the first time that Wikileaks has released fairly targeted documents against an agency in the United States[2][3][4][5]. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has clear …
RAND obtained a dataset of information about zero-day software exploits through a research connection. It is a rich dataset, as some of these exploits have been found by others and some have not. The dataset spans 14 years (2002–2016) and contains information about more than 200 zero-day exploits and the vulnerabilities that they take advantage …