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PhD Candidate, Department of War Studies, King’s College London. Researching cyber effects and information warfare

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Exemplar der Hannah-Arendt-Biografie von Lyndsey Stonebridge „Wir sind frei, die Welt zu verändern“ (erschienen 2024) steht in der Metall-Skulptur „Imperial Love“ von Robert Indiana.

Exemplar der Hannah-Arendt-Biografie von Lyndsey Stonebridge „Wir sind frei, die Welt zu verändern“ (erschienen 2024) steht in der Metall-Skulptur „Imperial Love“ von Robert Indiana.

Hannah Arendt, aktueller denn je:

„Der Tod der menschlichen Empathie ist eines der frühesten und deutlichsten Zeichen dafür, dass eine Kultur gerade in die Barbarei verfällt.“

#HannahArendt

12.07.2025 11:20 👍 70 🔁 19 💬 1 📌 3

Excellent pic

15.06.2025 08:11 👍 171 🔁 9 💬 12 📌 1
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Cyber and the Strategic Defence Review: All Pervasive But Light on Details The SDR outlines a series of sensible steps to improve the coherence of defence in the cyber domain. But it leaves a lot of details to be developed in implementation, particularly about how the UK sho...

The SDR outlines sensible steps to improve defence in the cyber domain. But it leaves details to be developed, particularly about how the UK should operate in cyberspace, writes @joedevanny.bsky.social.

11.06.2025 11:03 👍 10 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
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ATESH knocks out key Donetsk rail line cutting Russian supplies Read more

"ATESH partisan group carried out a successful sabotage operation on the new Volnovakha-Mariupol railway section in the Donetsk region. This significantly weakened Russia's defensive capabilities on the front line," newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/atesh-k...

01.06.2025 06:14 👍 427 🔁 51 💬 7 📌 2
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The three punch combo behind Ukraine’s spectacular drone strike on Russia Drones make for a cheap threat to Russia’s war machine and a much-needed morale boost at home – but this attack won’t break Putin’s resolve.

My short piece for the Lowy Institute on Russian bombers’ very bad day. www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpre...

02.06.2025 05:04 👍 256 🔁 35 💬 5 📌 3
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Rechtsextreme Terrorzelle soll Anschläge geplant haben - fünf Festnahmen In drei Bundesländern kommt es zu Verhaftungen im Zuge der Ermittlungen gegen eine rechtsextreme Terrorzelle. Diese habe mehrere Anschläge geplant, heißt es. Mehrfach soll versucht worden sein, die Ta...

Die massive Zunahme rechter Gewalt erwähnt Herr Dobrindt nicht...

Mehrere Bundesländer betroffen: Rechtsextreme Terrorzelle soll Anschläge geplant haben - fünf Festnahmen

Quelle: N-TV
search.app/NNU6V

Über die Google App geteilt

21.05.2025 09:13 👍 146 🔁 30 💬 7 📌 0

"Our 'we're not the Gestapo' shirts are raising a lot of questions already answered by our shirts."

19.05.2025 13:48 👍 39 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
How the world’s largest underwater tunnel is being built | BBC News
How the world’s largest underwater tunnel is being built | BBC News YouTube video by BBC News

This Denmark-Germany undersea tunnel is quite the engineering feat. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm2e...

11.05.2025 14:48 👍 54 🔁 17 💬 3 📌 0
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The myth of the genius hacker As the hype around ‘Scattered Spider’ shows, marketing is everything in the cyber security industry

This is great from @message4bob.bsky.social in the FT (£)

www.ft.com/content/5522...

11.05.2025 21:28 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Pro-Russian hackers claim to have targeted several UK websites Group that calls itself NoName057(16) appears to have had limited success disrupting council and other websites

After targeting Dutch provincial government sites and the Romanian election, NoName057 switches to targeting UK local government portals

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

08.05.2025 13:54 👍 3 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0

A great Darknet Diary. Good hear it from your perspective @malwaretech.com

07.05.2025 18:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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It takes a massive brass neck to have your administration attack another president for being disrespectfully dressed in a meeting and then turn up to the pope's funeral in a blue suit.

26.04.2025 10:31 👍 5097 🔁 1089 💬 240 📌 90
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Opinion | Trump’s peace plan for Ukraine rewards Russian aggression Accepting Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea would upend a core tenet of U.S. foreign policy.

By ratifying Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea, the Trump peace plan undermines one of the core pillars of the post-1945 world order—nations cannot change their borders by force. This is a reward for aggression and an invitation to more aggression. bit.ly/3YhkKqZ

24.04.2025 15:50 👍 114 🔁 46 💬 8 📌 1

Hand-eye coordination aptitude test?

31.03.2025 16:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The whole country has gone insane.

A promotional fibreglass husk for a movie, featuring an animal of undetermined immigration status, was vandalised by two lads on the piss.

He’s not Jesus.

25.03.2025 14:34 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 4 📌 0
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Surpassed only by the picture of Paddington stealing the police car 😁

25.03.2025 14:14 👍 57 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
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Why government workers and military planners all love Signal now The encrypted chat app beloved by Elon Musk and foreign dissidents has been embraced by federal government workers, DOGE and military planners.

This is incorrect. "Signal...prevents anyone — including hackers, law enforcement or Signal itself — from accessing what is written or said in the app." Signal *only* protects texts in transit, not texts that are on the device. If hacker or law enforcement gains access to device, they can read msgs.

25.03.2025 17:10 👍 89 🔁 35 💬 5 📌 4
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Politics US on X: "🚨🎥 WATCH: Vice President JD Vance will join Second Lady Usha Vance's trip to Greenland on Friday https://t.co/XEXtOMuX9p" / X 🚨🎥 WATCH: Vice President JD Vance will join Second Lady Usha Vance's trip to Greenland on Friday https://t.co/XEXtOMuX9p

x.com/politlcsus/s...

For those that still use the other place. Straight out of the Kremlin playbook. They’re creating a pretext to go in and protect the people of Greenland from an imaginary threat they’ve created. @keirgiles.bsky.social

26.03.2025 07:05 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

An APT group named Angry Likho has made hundreds of victims across Russia and Belarus over the past two years.

The group's usual targets include employees of large organizations, such as government agencies and their contractors

securelist.com/angry-likho-...

22.02.2025 22:58 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1

I don’t normally get worked up about the naming threat actors thing.

But the Volt & Salt Typhoon is a disaster as it’s so hard for non-specialists to tell them apart:

- Salt is Snowden style espionage by China against US

- Volt is a direct 🇨🇳 military threat to degrade western infrastructure 1/2

12.12.2024 20:47 👍 131 🔁 39 💬 7 📌 6
Chinese state media is reportedly troubled by the latest exodus of X users flocking to Bluesky. State outlets, which put considerable resources into amassing millions of followers on Elon Musk’s social media platform — including by buying ads, deploying bots, and hiring influencers — have recently seen their growth plateau.

The growing popularity of Bluesky, which has a largely liberal base and harder-to-manipulate algorithm, has sparked “worried chatter within Chinese state media circles,” a former Xinhua and China Daily employee wrote in his newsletter. He predicted the accounts will migrate to Bluesky, though it may take time. For now, the sector’s focus has shifted back to domestic, Mandarin-language channels and platforms like Bilibili, WeChat, and Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok.

Chinese state media is reportedly troubled by the latest exodus of X users flocking to Bluesky. State outlets, which put considerable resources into amassing millions of followers on Elon Musk’s social media platform — including by buying ads, deploying bots, and hiring influencers — have recently seen their growth plateau. The growing popularity of Bluesky, which has a largely liberal base and harder-to-manipulate algorithm, has sparked “worried chatter within Chinese state media circles,” a former Xinhua and China Daily employee wrote in his newsletter. He predicted the accounts will migrate to Bluesky, though it may take time. For now, the sector’s focus has shifted back to domestic, Mandarin-language channels and platforms like Bilibili, WeChat, and Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok.

lol China's state media is sad about Bluesky because it's not an easy propaganda distribution channel like X (and Facebook)

www.semafor.com/article/11/2...

26.11.2024 12:49 👍 11305 🔁 3266 💬 266 📌 433
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Russian Spies Jumped From One Network to Another Via Wi-Fi in an Unprecedented Hack In a first, Russia's APT28 hacking group appears to have remotely breached the Wi-Fi of an espionage target by hijacking a laptop in another building across the street.

www.wired.com/story/russia...

24.11.2024 14:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0