A year in books - 2024
It's a bit early, but because I know how lazy I tend to get during the last days of a year, I decided to summarize my reading adventures of 2024 a bit earlier than would technically be warranted.
More issues
Breathe in, breathe out - and then start writing.
A lot of fuss has been made about the fact that Russia released their revised nuclear doctrine pretty much the day that Ukraine used long-range missiles to attack targets inside Russia.
Another round: Government malware & digital surveillance
Not just the seasons, or my attempts to appear in the office in an outfit other than holey conference shirts, shorts and Birkenstock slippers that are cyclical. The desire of politicians for a "government trojan" or surveillance of digital communication seemingly follows a constant rhythm ..
Kursk? More like curse!
The first (major) incursion into Russian soil by enemy troops since the Second World War might end up being much more costly for Vladimir Putin outside of the battlefield than on it.
Perpetrators don't matter
The following post has been composed in the night after the terrorist attack on the Crocus City Hall in Moscow, on 22nd of March 2024. I ended up only sharing it with a few people because I wasn’t entirely comfortable with posting it here at the time. So .. here it is now.
A year in books - 2023
2023 wasn't the best year when it came to my reading habits. I only started taking notes in ..
It's cyberwar-o-clock .. or something like that.
As was the case at the beginning of the war in Ukraine a year and a half ago, reports about the possible role of cyberattacks in this conflict emerged relatively quickly shortly after the events that shook Israel on October 7, 2023.
I care about security, hence I don't care.
I’d love to see information security actually improve in a meaningful way. Not caring about anything but the bare security facts is a way of achieving that. Probably the only way.
Cyber is effective. Explosions are effective-er.
The publication of documents that allegedly describe the work of a Russian IT company on behalf of Russian intelligence services caused quite a stir in various journalistic publications at the end of March this year.
All metal, no manpower
It occurred to me that there are uncomfortable similarities between some major issues the armed forces of the Russian Federation suffer from and the issues a lot of Blue Teams have to deal with. This is an attempt to come up with a comparison that doesn’t sound entirely insane.