It has been published: the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy's report on undersea cables.
It was a privilege to be involved in the inquiry and see some of my suggestions picked up by the committee.
publications.parliament.uk/pa/jt5901/jt...
19.09.2025 08:10 — 👍 29 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 4
Citizen Lab director warns cyber industry about US authoritarian descent | TechCrunch
Ron Deibert, the head of the prominent digital human rights groups Citizen Lab, sounds the alarm at the Black Hat security conference about the "dramatic descent into authoritarianism," but one that t...
NEW: I spoke to @rondeibert.bsky.social ahead of his keynote at Black Hat today.
Ron travelled to Vegas to warn the cybersec industry that perhaps it’s time to get political.
“They should be aware of what’s going on and hopefully they can not contribute to it, if not help reverse it,” he said.
06.08.2025 15:17 — 👍 125 🔁 54 💬 1 📌 8
ah yes giving unpatched vuln information to entities under the jurisdiction of the MPS and MSS, two organizations well-known as NDA respecters
25.07.2025 18:32 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
"China is more directly providing [Shahed] components to Russia,” @katstepanenko.bsky.social told @theguardian.com. "Integration of Chinese components, where before there was supply from Iran, means the manufacturers now have a lot more available parts,” she said. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
25.07.2025 17:09 — 👍 110 🔁 42 💬 2 📌 4
The Kyberist: Suomi etsii keinoja vastata kasvaviin kyberuhkiin valtion ja yritysten yhteistyöllä — The Ulkopolitist
The Kyberist: Suomi etsii keinoja vastata kasvaviin kyberuhkiin valtion ja yritysten yhteistyöllä — The Ulkopolitist
Suomen uusi kyberturvallisuusajattelu korostaa aktiivista toimintaa, sektoriyhteistyötä ja strategista autonomiaa.
🧩 Jari Pirhonen ja Tuomo Rusila avasivat näitä palasia tuoreessa haastattelussa.
Juttu on osa The Kyberist -projektia yhteistyössä Accenturen kanssa.
ulkopolitist.fi/2025/06/16/t...
16.06.2025 06:05 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Haastatteluni #kyberturva-tilanteesta @ulkopolitist.fi, jossa korostan:
- jatkuvaa kehittämistä
- teknologisten riippuvuuksien ymmärtämistä
- yritysten ja viranomaisten yhteistyötä
- tasapainoista lainsäädäntöä
- kansalaisten roolia
Myös @tuomorusila.bsky.social
ulkopolitist.fi/2025/06/16/t...
22.06.2025 06:59 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
2/2 ‘Under current conditions, oversaturation of European missile defenses is virtually guaranteed within days, or at best weeks, of a war with Russia’.
By @frhoffmann.bsky.social
29.06.2025 09:43 — 👍 21 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 0
1/2 European leaders need to understand that this is their fate as well, unless Europe becomes smarter about missile defense or more serious about deterring Russia, including by deploying a credible counterstrike capability’.
29.06.2025 09:42 — 👍 59 🔁 27 💬 4 📌 0
“Keir Giles, a prominent expert on Russian information operations, was targeted with a sophisticated and personalized novel social engineering attack”.
More context:
Russian Government-Linked Social Engineering Targets App-Specific Passwords (18 June 2025) citizenlab.ca/2025/06/russ...
18.06.2025 17:54 — 👍 24 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
One of the better stories exposing Telegram's ties to Russian intelligence. Users should be very, very wary.
13.06.2025 19:04 — 👍 16 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 1
Does anyone like to recommend of well-documented and public analyses of cyberattacks targeting UAVs or uncrewed systems that occurred via software supply chains, such as through open-source software components? I'm also interested in academic papers that test or simulate such attacks.
13.06.2025 13:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The key to understanding Syria's failure to repel a modest opposition, which led to regime's collapse, may lie in this colossal mistake. But who was behind the app? Syrian opposition militias who were involved in the conflict? Regional or international intelligence services? Or another unseen hand?
03.06.2025 11:28 — 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
How a Spyware App Compromised Assad’s Army
An investigation reveals how a cyberattack exploited soldiers' vulnerabilities and may have changed the course of the Syrian conflict
How Syrian army officers in final days of war with opposition were duped into 1) disclosing info to fake website about their rank/location and corps/division/brigade and 2) installing phone app that was actually spyware that recorded keystrokes, stole files/photos/call log and spied thru camera/mic
03.06.2025 11:28 — 👍 47 🔁 19 💬 2 📌 1
"Why would Putin wait until we are ready. He does not need to mount a full-scale attack on Nato, he just needs to attack what’s left of Nato’s credibility. "
02.06.2025 10:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
One take from the gloomy but highly important speech by @edwardlucas.bsky.social
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02.06.2025 10:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Strategic autonomy
02.06.2025 07:05 — 👍 48 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
I am now able to now able to create a believable voice clone using just 10 seconds of someone’s recorded voice. The tools are publicly available, easy to use, and in many cases they are free.
It’s essential your family, friends, and workplace understands how easy this attack is.
30.05.2025 14:22 — 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
Someone AI voice cloned the White House chief of staff & asked for: list of individuals the President should pardon, cash transfer, questions about President.
If your team doesn’t know how to verify identity to avoid getting tricked by voice clones, now is the time to prep them.
30.05.2025 14:22 — 👍 46 🔁 29 💬 1 📌 2
Satellite data shed light on Russia’s modern-day gulags for Ukrainian children
A Canadian-funded effort is tracking the movements of Ukrainian children taken during wartime
The Children’s Gulag.
How a Canadian-funded project is mapping Russia’s network of camps where abducted Ukrainian children are being held - and helping to bring some of them home.
My report
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
29.05.2025 18:35 — 👍 81 🔁 52 💬 1 📌 2
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