Journal of Law & Cyber Warfare · Est. 2012
When does a line of code become an act of war?
The leading peer-reviewed forum on the law of cyber conflict — attribution and sovereignty, autonomous weapons, critical infrastructure, and the legal frontier of cyberwarfare. Read by legal, military, and security professionals across the globe.
Latest dispatchSalt Typhoon and the Law of Cyber Espionage: Sovereignty, Attribution, and the Limits of International Law- Issues published
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Salt Typhoon and the Law of Cyber Espionage: Sovereignty, Attribution, and the Limits of International Law
The intrusion campaign attributed to the Chinese state-sponsored threat actor known as Salt Typhoon — which compromised the networks of at least nine major U.S. telecommunications carriers and reportedly accessed the la…
Cyber Insurance and Corporate Risk in Cybercrime
Cybercrime now imposes direct financial, operational, and reputational costs on companies across every sector. Ransomware, business email compromise, supply chain infiltration, and data theft no longer represent isolate…
Regulating Dual Use AI in Cyber Operations
Artificial intelligence now drives many core cybersecurity functions. Machine learning systems detect anomalies, triage alerts, and predict intrusion patterns. These same technologies can also automate vulnerability dis…
Comparative Cyber Incident Response
State linked cyber incidents create unique legal and operational pressures. A ransomware event by a criminal gang raises hard questions. A suspected state linked intrusion raises harder ones. Governments want rapid visi…
Cyber Countermeasures by Private Actors
State linked cyber operations now target private infrastructure with regularity. Energy grids, telecommunications networks, financial institutions, and cloud providers serve as both economic assets and strategic pressur…
AI Cyber Threats and the Future of Cybersecurity Law
Artificial intelligence and related emerging technologies are rapidly reshaping the cyber threat landscape. Both malicious actors and defenders increasingly rely on automated systems to conduct analyze and respond to cy…
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The Law of Cyber Conflict — at the Harvard Club
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