Cyberwar
The New Cold War’s Front Line
Russia is waging a covert war against NATO, with Estonia, a member state that was formerly a Soviet republic, now on the front line. In Tallinn, the fear is that Putin could make the cost of protecting the country too high for its allies to bear.
Hacking the Hackers
Cybercrime has long been a useful foreign policy tool for the Russian state. But observers now wonder if shifting geopolitics, including Donald Trump’s rapprochement with the Kremlin, will impact such activities, for better or worse.
How East Timor Blazed the Way for Hacktivism
Activists, hackers and dissident exiles helped put one of the least-connected places on Earth, East Timor, at the cutting-edge of online advocacy – all while making Ireland the target of one of the world’s first state-sponsored cyberattacks.