According to a Microsoft blog post published overnight Monday, Russian hacking group Nobelium has been relentlessly targeting cloud service companies since the summer. Microsoft says this is a part of a larger effort to disrupt the global technology supply chain. “We believe Nobelium ultimately hopes to piggyback on any direct access that resellers may have…

COVID-19 can be felt here and abroad in various stages of impact. Here are a few making news today. BROADWAY RETURNS Multiple news outlets reported the return of Broadway Tuesday after a year and a half of the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 forced all 41 Broadway theaters to go dark. If all goes as planned, 39…

Hurricane Ida made landfall in southern Louisiana as a Category 4 storm on August 29. In its wake, it left a trail of damage that Americans living on the Gulf and Atlantic coasts have found depressingly familiar. Total recovery costs will not be known for weeks, but $80 billion is being floated by some insurance…

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with U.S. President Joe Biden at the White House Wednesday. President Zelenskyy’s name first popped up in U.S. headlines shortly after he took office in May 2019. The Ukraine president was quickly caught up in Former U.S. President Donald Trump’s first impeachment inquiry. The inquiry came following a 2019 phone…

On New Year’s Eve, just minutes before the dawn of 1992, the Soviet flag was lowered from the Kremlin for the last time. Arguably the Cold War had been over for a few years already. Glasnost and perestroika had defanged the thorny grip of the KGB and made Soviet citizens less afraid of their own…

Air Force One touched down in Geneva, Switzerland Tuesday, as President Joe Biden prepares for his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Expected topics of discussion at the meeting include cyberattacks, election interference efforts, and human rights abuses in Russia. President Biden has repeatedly pressed President Putin to take action against Russian-based cyberattacks since Biden…

WASHINGTON (AP) — In his first overseas trip of his term, President Joe Biden is eager to reassert the United States on the world stage, steadying European allies deeply shaken by his predecessor and pushing democracy as the only bulwark to rising forces of authoritarianism. Biden has set the stakes for his eight-day trip in…

From Russia’s cyberattacks and election interference to China‘s economic buildup and expansion in the South China Sea, both countries pose pressing challenges to the global balance of power. Earlier this year, a U.S. intelligence report identified how and why Russia and China remain America’s top two international threats. It detailed how China has become a…