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Welcome to the team Bob Herczeg - our new Executive Support and Research Officer! 👏 Read more about Bob: virtual-routes.org/bob-herczeg-...

🚀 Applications for the European Cybersecurity Fellowship 2026-2027 are open now! Read more and apply by 8 February, 2026: virtual-routes.org/initiatives/...

Join us for the last session of the Virtual Routes Colloquium Fall/Winter Series next week! 👋 Read more and sign up here: virtual-routes.org/event/danger...

📩 Applications to the two-week Ransomware Defence Summer Bootcamp are open now! Read more and apply by 5 March, 2026: virtual-routes.org/ransomware-d...

We are excited to welcome Nada Gamal to the team as our new Senior Project Manager! 🤝 Read more about Nada here: virtual-routes.org/nada-gamal-j...

💭Thought bites from #BindingHookLive

Interested in more insights? Read the retrospective on the event by our Managing Editors @jamesshires.bsky.social and @maxwsmeets.bsky.social: bindinghook.com/insights-fro...

It's time - the 2nd edition of the @bindinghook.bsky.social - @munsecconf.bsky.social Essay Prize Competition is back! 👏

⏳ Submission deadline: 4 January, 2026

Read more and submit your essay here: bindinghook.com/event/essay-...

AI over Lunch: Daniel Drewer Over lunch in the Europol canteen, Apolline and Daniel discuss how AI is changing the reality of data protection work in law enforcement: expanding responsibilities, a growing need for technical exper...

💭 "AI has expanded what the Data Protection Office must look at, but it has not removed any of the other tasks. AI is important, but it cannot eclipse everything else.” Read the new AI over Lunch interview with Daniel Drewer, Europol's Data Protection Officer: virtual-routes.org/ai-over-lunc...

The course features leading experts from academia, government and industry: @ciaranm.bsky.social, @biella.bsky.social, @maxwsmeets.bsky.social, @jamesshires.bsky.social, @monicakello.bsky.social, Andrew Martin and Paul Timmers.

✍️ Applications to our new 12-week live online course on AI and Cybersecurity are open now! Read more and apply by Feb 20, 2026: virtual-routes.org/foundations-...

📢 50+ new cases from May to November 2025 now added to the Virtual Routes Ransomware Countermeasures Tracker - the most comprehensive database of government countermeasures worldwide! Read more: virtual-routes.org/three-insigh...

✨ 2 years of Binding Hook! ✨Thank you for your readership and contributions. Here’s to the years to come! 🥂

🗓️ Mark your calendar for the next Colloquium session this week! Read more and sign up here: virtual-routes.org/event/positi...

That's a wrap on the second Google.org Cybersecurity Seminars networking event in Paris! 🇫🇷 Read more: virtual-routes.org/the-second-g...

Announced today at the Google.org Cybersecurity Seminars program annual networking event, we are excited to share the newest resource available on our website - AI in Cybersecurity Toolkit! 🧰 Access the toolkit here: virtual-routes.org/ai-in-cybers...

AI over Lunch: Luca Tagliaretti Over Lebanese lunch across from the European Parliament, Apolline Rolland and Luca Tagliaretti talk about Europe’s cyber resilience, the ECCC’s role in turning policy into practice, and why regulation...

AI over Lunch - New Interview 💭 “People think Brussels only regulates. But we also build.” Apolline Rolland met Luca Tagliaretti, Executive Director of the European Cybersecurity Competence Centre (ECCC): virtual-routes.org/ai-over-lunc...

Our latest #AIoverLunch takes us to New York, where Apolline Rolland met Tazin Khan, founder of Cyber Collective. They discussed how AI can bridge knowledge gaps, help resource-strained NGOs scale their work, and why cybersecurity should start at the dinner table. virtual-routes.org/ai-over-lunc...

YouTube video by Virtual Routes This was Binding Hook Live!

🙌 This was Binding Hook Live — a day filled with incredible conversations and discussions on and off stage. Read more insights from Binding Hook Live by our Managing Editors James Shires and @maxwsmeets.bsky.social: bindinghook.com/insights-fro...

🎞️ youtu.be/MOr-eZ_IJfo?...

📢 We're hiring! 👋

Are you interested in contributing to the success of Virtual Routes? We’d love to hear from you!

Read more & apply: virtual-routes.org/vacancies/

The annual European Cybersecurity Fellowship field trip - done! ✅ Thank you for hosting us @bindinghook.bsky.social, @ncsc.gov.uk, FCDO and the Estonian Embassy in London!

AI over Lunch: Tazin Khan This week, the AI lunch lands in New York, where I meet Tazin Khan, founder of Cyber Collective, a non-profit organisation that uses education and community engagement to make cybersecurity, data prot...

AI over Lunch — New Interview 💭
“People expect the ones most harmed by systems to also be the ones to dismantle them.”
This week, Apolline Rolland meets Tazin Khan of Cyber Collective.
🔗 Read: virtual-routes.org/ai-over-lunc...
#AIOverLunch #Cybersecurity #DigitalLiteracy #AI #TechForGood

🚨 New talk: Machine Learning Security in Practice w/ Dr. Sven Herpig. From altered lane markings to neural trojans—how real are ML threats, and what matters most now?

📅 Oct 23 | 🕒 15:00 CEST | 💻 Online
Members only: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Learn more: virtual-routes.org/initiatives/...

Today, we are launching the Virtual Routes Cybersecurity Services Centre, an ambitious new project to improve the #cybersecurity of what we call “Critical Community Infrastructure”. Read more & apply here: virtual-routes.org/cybersecurit...

AI over Lunch: Colin Shea-Blymyer This week’s AI over Lunch comes from Washington DC, where we meet Colin Shea-Blymyer, researcher at the Centre for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), to talk about AI beyond the European bubble.

💭 New #AIoverLunch interview is out now! Today we'll take you to Washington, DC, where Apolline Rolland met Colin Shea-Blymyer, researcher at @csetgeorgetown.bsky.social: virtual-routes.org/ai-over-lunc...

👏 Three weeks to go and only a few tickets left - #BindingHookLive agenda is out now! View the agenda and request your invite: bindinghooklive.com

AI over Lunch: Julia Stamm Today’s “AI over Lunch” has been downgraded, or perhaps upgraded, to “AI over Tea.” Arranged at the last minute in a noisy café, my guest, Dr. Julia Stamm, has come to Brussels for business.

☕️ New AI over Lunch interview is here - this time actually over tea. Apolline Rolland sat down with @juliastamm.bsky.social, founder of #SheShapesAI: virtual-routes.org/ai-over-lunc...

Mythical Beasts and Where to Find Them: Diving into the Depths of the Global Spyware Market - Virtual Routes Colloquium The first session of the Virtual Routes Colloquium Fall/Winter series hosts Jen Roberts from Cyber Statecraft Initiative. Jen will present her research on "Mythical Beasts and Where to Find Them: Divi...

Read more & sign up: virtual-routes.org/event/mythic...

👋 Don't miss the first Colloquium session tomorrow!

📌 Mythical Beasts and Where to Find Them: Diving into the Depths of the Global Spyware Market
💡 Jen Roberts (@cyberstatecraft.bsky.social) & @julianferdinand.bsky.social (Recorded Future)
🗓️ October 2, 2025
🕓 16:00 – 17:00 CET

Mythical Beasts and Where to Find Them: Diving into the Depths of the Global Spyware Market - Virtual Routes Colloquium The first session of the Virtual Routes Colloquium Fall/Winter series hosts Jen Roberts from Cyber Statecraft Initiative. Jen will present her research on "Mythical Beasts and Where to Find Them: Divi...

Excited to join a discussion on the second edition of The Mythical Beast by Jen Roberts (@atlanticcouncil.bsky.social), exploring the complex networks behind the spyware ecosystem. This kicks off the new Colloquium series by @virtualroutes.bsky.social: virtual-routes.org/event/mythic...