The Hack That Exposed Syria’s Sweeping Security Failures

When Syrian government accounts were hijacked in March, the breach looked chaotic. But it revealed something more troubling: a state struggling with the most basic layer of cybersecurity...

How nation-state attackers like NOBELIUM are changing cybersecurity

This is the first post in a four-part series on the NOBELIUM nation-state cyberattack. Microsoft started telling the industry about this extremely advanced cyberattack in December 2020. The NOBELIUM blog series—which mirrors Microsoft’s four-part video series “Decoding NOBELIUM”—will pull the...

New Center, Council Aims to Foster Cybersecurity Discussion at a State Level

Hoping to better address the cause and concerns of cyber attacks on a state level, last week the National Governors Association NGA announced the creation of the Resource Center for State Cybersecurity, an initiative set into motion by Governor Martin O’Malley D-Md. and Governor Rick Snyder R-Mic...