Bart Thijssen

How cybersecurity can successfully navigate geopolitics Cybersecurity has become a cornerstone of international relations, business resilience, and public trust and when developed effectively, it plays a vital role in building a secure and resilient digita...

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Trump suggests US used cyberattacks to turn off lights in Venezuela during strikes U.S. Cyber Command was involved in setting the stage for the operation.

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Exclusive: How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips In a high-security Shenzhen laboratory, Chinese scientists have built a prototype of a machine capable of producing cutting-edge semiconductor chips that power artificial intelligence, smartphones and...

Oh dear.

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Spain awards Huawei contracts to manage intelligence agency wiretaps Huawei will manage and store judicially authorized wiretaps in Spain, under a contract that bucks the trend of Western governments restricting use of the Chinese tech company's products and services.

Stupid decision.

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Same Sea, New Phish: Russian Government-Linked Social Engineering Targets App-Specific Passwords - The Citizen Lab Keir Giles, a prominent expert on Russia, was targeted with a new form of social-engineering attack that leverages App-Specific Passwords. Google links the operation to UNC6293, a Russian state-backed...

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Hidden Bear: The GRU hackers of Russia’s most notorious kill squad Russian GRU Unit 29155 is best known for its long list of murder and sabotage ops, which include the Salisbury poisonings in England, arms depot explosions in Czechia, and an attempted coup d’etat in ...

‼️ Hidden Bear: The GRU hackers of Russia's most notorious kill squad

As The Insider discovered, Unit 29155, the Kremlin’s most notorious black ops squad, also fielded a team of hackers that tried to destabilize Ukraine before Russia’s full-scale invasion.

Frontline report: Baltic seabed shows growing scars from Russia’s hybrid sabotage - Euromaidan Press A sanctioned Russian-linked vessel operating under an Antiguan flag was detected maneuvering near a 600-megawatt undersea power line connecting Poland and Sweden, prompting immediate Polish military i...

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Ok, let me repeat this with a different news source: Disrupting an iconic cultural event to humiliate Europe is in line with how russia is thinking these days

Mysterious hacking group Careto was run by the Spanish government, sources say | TechCrunch The elusive hacking group Careto was never publicly linked to a specific government, but TechCrunch has learned researchers concluded privately that the Spanish government was behind the group.

NEW: More than a decade ago, Kaspersky discovered a mysterious "elite" hacking group it called Careto (aka “The Mask”), which then vanished and only resurfaced last year.

We can now reveal that the researchers who investigated it were confident that the Spanish government was behind it.

Pocket, One of the Only Apps I Ever Liked, Is Shutting Down Pocket, the app for saving articles to read later, announced it is shutting down on July 8.

Pocket, One of the Only Apps I Ever Liked, Is Shutting Down

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TeleMessage customers include DC Police, Andreesen Horowitz, JP Morgan, and hundreds more I've been digging through the 410 GB of Java heap dumps from TeleMessage's archive server, provided by DDoSecrets. Here's a description of the dataset, some of my initial findings, details about an up...

My latest on the clean OPSEC saga: TeleMessage customers include DC Police, Andreesen Horowitz, JP Morgan, and hundreds more micahflee.com/telemessage-...

A Russia-NATO War Would Look Nothing Like Ukraine Moscow will seek to avoid a full-on war and focus on breaking the bloc’s resolve.

While Russia is suffering horrendous casualties in Ukraine and failing by most metrics, European states perceive it as an existential threat—and are frantically preparing for an attack.

In my new piece for @foreignpolicy.com, I make sense of this paradox.

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