Russia Reform Monitor: No. 1851
More attacks in Dagestan;
IOC will not challenge Russian law
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Heart of Darkness: Inside Syria’s Los Alamos
The implications were chilling. In the summer of 2012, as murder and mayhem reigned on both sides of Syria’s civil war, someone—likely from the opposition—released a list of 32 names on Facebook. These weren’t people invited to a wedding; they weren’t members of the Syrian national soccer team; and they weren’t guests for a weekend jaunt to a fancy seaside resort in Latakia. These were people someone wanted dead.
South Asia Security Monitor: No. 329
China Reform Monitor: No. 1058
China now alone with DPRK in blocking Facebook;
China signs $11.6 billion investment deal with Kenya
Cybersecurity: New Threats and Challenges
In recent years the vast expansion of cyberspace, not only in terms of user but content and applications, has brought about a set of new threats and challenges never anticipated by the net’s designers. At the outset of this technological revolution access to the net was only through a few connected mainframe computers; there was literally nothing to steal or attack; and no infrastructure was connected to the net. Cybersecurity was simply not an issue...