The curious case of the effortful fraud
How what looked like a generic phishing site seemingly turned out to be a put-some-effort-into it, targeted fraud.
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Cyber Threat Intelligence - Art, Science, something else entirely?
Is Cyber Threat Intelligence an art, science, both, or something else entirely?
Trying to understand Russia
The collective West is often treating Russia as a country whose internal logic seems impossible to grasp - emphasis on "seems", because it's not actually impossible. Understanding the internal logic of the current Russia requires holding several uncomfortable truths at once.
Discovery is not the bottleneck!
There is a seductive logic to the current surge of optimism around AI-supported vulnerability discovery - a logic that is entirely based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the situation at hand.
No Pain, No Gain - How Impunity Perpetuates Failure
It’s time to treat cybersecurity incidents and data breaches like preventable disasters, not the inevitable cost of doing business.
A year in books - 2025
A list of all of the books I read in 2025, with a few notes attached to each of them.
Demand Without Development
The cybersecurity talent shortage is not just a problem of numbers, but of structure. By systematically avoiding the hiring and training of true junior staff, the industry is reinforcing a feedback loop that shrinks its own future workforce.
Your reporting should act as a yardstick.
Threat Intelligence reports often don't manage to adhere to basic principles of analytical work. But they should.
ssh-agent 🤝 systemd user-service
Marrying ssh-agent to a systemd user-service finally gave me peace of mind and saved me some keystrokes.
The Byzantine Heritage in Russian Security Culture
I would argue that Byzantium remains a key driver of Russian (strategic) security and intelligence culture. In this post I want to explore how I came to this conclusion and talk about how Byzantine "intelligence traditions" influenced Russian statecraft across the ages.