CyCon 2025 Series – AI-Enabled Offensive Cyber Operations: Legal Challenges in the Shadows of Automation

CyCon 2025 Series – AI-Enabled Offensive Cyber Operations: Legal Challenges in the Shadows of Automation

CyCon 2025 Series – AI-Enabled Offensive Cyber Operations: Legal Challenges in the Shadows of Automation Editors’ note: This post is part of a series that features presentations at this year’s 17th International Conference on Cyber Conflict (CyCon) in Tallinn,...
Firewalls and Fault Lines: Cyber War in the Middle East

Firewalls and Fault Lines: Cyber War in the Middle East

Firewalls and Fault Lines: Cyber War in the Middle East Following the Iran-Israel War, a conflict blending relentless Israel Defense Force (IDF) airstrikes with Iranian missile and drone barrages, some Middle Eastern battlefields have quieted, making it easy to forget...
Non-State Cyber Actors in the 12-Day War – The Gray Zone of LOAC, Part II

Non-State Cyber Actors in the 12-Day War – The Gray Zone of LOAC, Part II

Non-State Cyber Actors in the 12-Day War – The Gray Zone of LOAC, Part II Editors’ note: In a prior post Professor Gary Corn described recent cyber operations undertaken during conflict between Iran and Israel. He related details of the hacking group, Predatory...
Non-State Cyber Actors in the 12-Day War – The Gray Zone of LOAC, Part I

Non-State Cyber Actors in the 12-Day War – The Gray Zone of LOAC, Part I

Non-State Cyber Actors in the 12-Day War – The Gray Zone of LOAC, Part I Editors’ note: In this two-part series, Professor Gary Corn examines law of armed conflict issues arising from cyber operations conducted during the recent conflict between Israel and Iran. With...
Time to Treat Hackers Like Satellites: Why Cyber Needs the Outer Space Rulebook

Time to Treat Hackers Like Satellites: Why Cyber Needs the Outer Space Rulebook

Time to Treat Hackers Like Satellites: Why Cyber Needs the Outer Space Rulebook If you want to understand what’s missing in cyberspace, look up. In 1967, at the height of the Cold War, the international community agreed on the Outer Space Treaty (OST), a legal...
Interning a Hacker

Interning a Hacker

Interning a Hacker Recently, at a workshop at Harvard Law School, I grappled with the question of internment in any international armed conflict (IAC) in the near future. It is a question some are uncomfortable with, although the concept of internment remains legally...