Paul Mozur, July 26th 2019, New York Timeshttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/26/technology/hong-kong-protests-facial-recognition-surveillance.html A quest to identify protesters and police officers has people in both groups desperate to protect their anonymity. Some fear a turn toward China-style surveillance. HONG KONG — The police officers wrestled with Colin Cheung in an unmarked car. They needed his face. They grabbed his jaw to force […]Read More

Shibani Mahtani and Regine Sabato, July 26th 2019, Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/why-crafty-internet-trolls-in-the-philippines-may-be-coming-to-a-website-near-you/2019/07/25/c5d42ee2-5c53-11e9-98d4-844088d135f2_story.html?utm_term=.328c8459b9d2 MANILA — In a white-walled room, a small cyber-army of four is furiously typing. And posting. And clicking. And scrolling.  And trolling. For the next eight hours, they will be glued to their screens. They are hired guns in one of Manila’s hundreds of troll farms […]Read More

IPA recognized new Order Of Hermès awardees from Ukraine MOD and Naval Post Graduate school.  For outstanding achievement and academic leadership, IPA acknowledged Dr. Hy Rothstien and Dr. John Arquilla. Read More

Preface More Cowbell Unlimited recently released a technical paper which presents a holistic Information Warfare Defense (IW-D) Standard.  The Standard may be adopted by any country or organization. The technical paper includes a novel IW Attack and Defense Methodology along with plausible human, machine, machine-human, machine-machine, and emerging IW attack scenarios and mitigation strategies in the Appendix. Technical paper comments are welcome. […]Read More

SEC. 218. FOREIGN MALIGN INFLUENCE OPERATIONS RESEARCH PROGRAM.     (a) Program Required.–The Secretary of Defense, acting through the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, shall carry out a research program on foreign malign influence operations research as part of the university and other basic research programs of the Department of Defense (such as […]Read More

Matt Armstrong, July 16th 2019https://mountainrunner.us/2019/07/is-it-a-lost-art/ There are plenty of discussions today, and for the past many years, about “information warfare,” “ideological warfare,” and, more rarely, “political warfare.” While some may read these as largely synonymous terms, they should convey different meanings which translates into a differing understanding of the threat and thus the response required.  […]Read More

Our Take States need additional federal funding to address election security vulnerabilities, according to a report co-authored by ASD Deputy Director David Salvo and Head of External Affairs Rachael Dean Wilson with the Brennan Center for Justice, R Street Institute, and University of Pittsburgh’s Institute for Cyber Law, Policy and Security. In an interview with the Washington Post Rachael Dean […]Read More

2020 Election and Information Security Director of National Intelligence Daniel R. Coats Establishes Intelligence Community Election Threats Executive | Office of the Director of National Intelligence Mark Esper, Defense Secretary Nominee, Says DOD Confident In Security of 2020 Election | Andrew Blake | Washington Times Americans Could Be a Bigger Fake News Threat Than Russians In The 2020 Presidential Campaign | […]Read More

Nolan Peterson, July 14th 2019, The National Interest https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/how-iran-might-fight-war-against-america-thanks-russia-67002 KYIV, Ukraine—The recent military tension between the U.S. and Iran underscores a new era of conflict, some military officials and analysts say, in which a country’s power on the world stage is no longer measured solely by economic clout, military force, or even diplomatic sway.  Rather, […]Read More

Didi Kirsten Tatlow, The Atlantic, July 12th 2019 https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/07/chinas-influence-efforts-germany-students/593689/ Beijing uses student and professional associations to try to influence not just Chinese citizens abroad, but outsiders, too. In centuries past, Prussian, Napoleonic, Nazi, and Allied soldiers all tramped the Strasse des 17. Juni, an east–west boulevard traversing Berlin’s leafy Tiergarten park, over which soars a […]Read More