Data Security
How the U.S. Can Maintain Its Edge in the Global Tech Race
Editor’s note: In February, The National Interest organized a symposium on the U.S.-China technology race amidst the emergence of DeepSeek and ongoing legal battles over TikTok. We asked a variety of experts the following...
On EVs, Israel May Have to Choose Between China and the United States
In recent years, Chinese car manufacturers have become dominant in Israel’s EV market, presenting opportunities and challenges. As the great power rivalry between the United States and the People’s Republic...
Hidden Weakness: Cyberwarfare Can Bring Down Xi Jinping
Domestic resistance to Chinese president Xi Jinping is currently manifesting in a wave of sensitive data leaks from within China. This is decisive for two reasons. First, it reveals a...
Settled: T-Mobile Agrees to Pay $350 Million to Victims of 2021 Data Breach
T-Mobile has agreed to settle a lawsuit related to a 2021 cyberattack and data breach, per an SEC filing first cited by GeekWire. The carrier, per the filing, has “entered...
Ban Incoming? FCC Commissioner Calls for TikTok to Be Pulled From App Stores
Former President Donald Trump famously called for TikTok to be banned in the United States back in 2020, later trying to force a sale of its U.S. operations to Oracle....
Are Hacktivist Data Dumps Helping Ukraine?
The Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24 set off a global onslaught in cyberspace that is overwhelmingly targeting Russian government infrastructure, private companies, and individual Russian citizens. While the...
It’s Time to Treat Data Protection as a National Security Issue
The lack of adequate personal data protection in the United States poses a significant threat to national security. Data privacy and protection are often pitted against efforts to stimulate the...
Why Windows XP Won’t Die
The source code of the Windows XP operating system is now circulating online as a huge 43GB mega-dump. Although the software is nearly two decades old, it’s still used by...
Cyberspace Is Critical Infrastructure – So Why Doesn’t Government Protect It?
A famous 1990s New Yorker cartoon showed two dogs at a computer and a caption that read “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.” The cartoon represents a digital...
How Dangerous Is TikTok, Really?
It was quite a weekend of ups and downs when it came to the future of TikTok. After Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a Fox News interview in...