I hope you will join us on Thursday, May 7 from 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm for the “Triple Entente Beer Summit” at The Washington Firehouse (1626 North Capitol Street Northwest, Washington, DC).  This live recording of the three podcasts – Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, Lawfare Podcast, and Rational Security – will be your chance

The House Intelligence Committee has now adopted a manager’s amendment to what it’s now calling the “Protecting Cyber Networks Act.”  Predictably, privacy groups are already inveighing against it.

Cyberspies can’t count on anonymity any more.

The United States (and the private security firm Mandiant) stripped a PLA espionage unit of its cover two years ago with a detailed description of the unit’s individual hackers; that report was followed by federal indictments of members of the unit that described them and their activities is

It was a busy week for companies and government agencies struggling to combat the growing threat of cyber-attacks, with some bad news and some good news.  Here’s what you need to know, and how we can help.

What you Need to know

First, the bad news:

  • Lawsuits against Target move forward and lawsuits against Home

I’ve long been an advocate for fewer restraints on how the private sector responds to hacking attacks.  If the government can’t stop and can’t punish such attacks, in my view the least it could do is not threaten the victims with felony prosecution for taking reasonable measures in self-defense.  I debated the topic with co-blogger

Earlier today the Wall Street Journal’s Risk and Compliance Journal published an interview with me and Steve Chabinsky from Crowdstrike about cybersecurity. In the interview, Steve and I make the case that the current paradigm for protecting companies against cyberattacks isn’t working, and that fixing it involves focusing on aligning private sector and