The cyber division of ICE's Homeland Security Investigations on Saturday quietly lifted a stop-work order put into place by the Biden administration in October.
Google says it is starting a cyber “disruption unit,” a development that arrives in a potentially shifting U.S. landscape toward more offensive-oriented approaches in cyberspace.
The 50-page report, “Disrupted, Throttled, and Blocked: State Censorship, Control, and Increasing Isolation of Internet Users in Russia,” documents the impact of the government’s increasing technological capacities and control over the internet infrastructure. Human Rights Watch found that this allows the authorities to carry out more widespread and nontransparent blocking and throttling of unwanted websites and censorship circumvention tools, as well as internet disruptions and shutdowns under the pretext of ensuring public safety and national security.
This report examines trends in cyberattacks, content management, digital rights violations, and arrests in the first six months of 2025, based on data from Miaan Group's Digital Security Helpdesk(DSH).
This report examines how human rights defenders (HRDs) in African contexts including the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Senegal, and Zimbabwe use digital security tools to protect themselves in high-risk political and digital environments. It uses existing literature, survey responses and interviews with HRDs and developers of digital security tools to highlight key challenges such as pervasive state surveillance, limited access to digital infrastructure, low digital literacy, and the technical complexity of existing digital security tools. However, both HRDs and tools developers expressed strong interest in collaboration, co-design, and digital security training to improve usability. The report recommends a comprehensive approach to digital security which includes co-design, continuous training support, and reform to ensure HRDs are capacitated and protected in their work.