Matt Devost
@devost.net
Technologist, entrepreneur, and hacker | CEO @ OODA | Founder @DevSec | Past Founder of FusionX & Terrorism Research Center. Black Hat board member.
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The DevSec team is excited to sponsor and participate in the premiere AI - Security hackathon:
@nebulafogsf.bsky.social
See you all in San Francisco!
@nebulafogsf.bsky.social
See you all in San Francisco!
January 24, 2025 at 3:38 PM
The DevSec team is excited to sponsor and participate in the premiere AI - Security hackathon:
@nebulafogsf.bsky.social
See you all in San Francisco!
@nebulafogsf.bsky.social
See you all in San Francisco!
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The Future of Deepfakes May Be as a More Targeted and Calculating Weapon https://buff.ly/3E91i8L
January 23, 2025 at 9:19 PM
The Future of Deepfakes May Be as a More Targeted and Calculating Weapon https://buff.ly/3E91i8L
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Eric Geller
“ ‘An increasingly isolationist United States creates or amplifies a lot of problems that we're not going to be able to turn our backs on,’ says Nathaniel Fick .. ‘We may not be interested in the world, but the world is interested in us.’ “ www.wired.com/story/nathan...
“ ‘An increasingly isolationist United States creates or amplifies a lot of problems that we're not going to be able to turn our backs on,’ says Nathaniel Fick .. ‘We may not be interested in the world, but the world is interested in us.’ “ www.wired.com/story/nathan...
Biden's Cyber Ambassador Urges Trump Not to Cede Ground to Russia and China in Global Tech Fight
Nathaniel Fick, the ambassador for cyberspace and digital policy, has led US tech diplomacy amid a rising tide of pressure from authoritarian regimes. Will the Trump administration undo that work?
www.wired.com
January 17, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Eric Geller
“ ‘An increasingly isolationist United States creates or amplifies a lot of problems that we're not going to be able to turn our backs on,’ says Nathaniel Fick .. ‘We may not be interested in the world, but the world is interested in us.’ “ www.wired.com/story/nathan...
“ ‘An increasingly isolationist United States creates or amplifies a lot of problems that we're not going to be able to turn our backs on,’ says Nathaniel Fick .. ‘We may not be interested in the world, but the world is interested in us.’ “ www.wired.com/story/nathan...
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NEW MAJOR @citizenlab.ca report investigates the gendered dimensions of digital transnational repression
Interviews with 85 human rights defenders in 23 host countries shows alarming harassment, intimidation, disinformation, hacking and other targeted attacks
Women chilled into silence 👇
Interviews with 85 human rights defenders in 23 host countries shows alarming harassment, intimidation, disinformation, hacking and other targeted attacks
Women chilled into silence 👇
NEW REPORT: We investigate the rising trend of gender-based digital transnational repression by drawing on the lived experiences of 85 women human rights defenders living in exile across the globe.
Read the full report: citizenlab.ca/2024/12/the-...
Read the full report: citizenlab.ca/2024/12/the-...
No Escape: The Weaponization of Gender for the Purposes of Digital Transnational Repression - The Citizen Lab
Building upon our prior research and the contributions of other scholars to this field, the aim of this novel study is to understand the security risks and harms caused by digital transnational repres...
citizenlab.ca
December 2, 2024 at 1:56 PM
NEW MAJOR @citizenlab.ca report investigates the gendered dimensions of digital transnational repression
Interviews with 85 human rights defenders in 23 host countries shows alarming harassment, intimidation, disinformation, hacking and other targeted attacks
Women chilled into silence 👇
Interviews with 85 human rights defenders in 23 host countries shows alarming harassment, intimidation, disinformation, hacking and other targeted attacks
Women chilled into silence 👇
Do you like books? Here are my picks for the top 10 security, technology, and business books of the year. Also includes some fiction recommendations and a few honorable mentions that didn't quite make the top 10 list.
oodaloop.com/analysis/dec...
oodaloop.com/analysis/dec...
Top 10 Security, Technology, & Business Books of 2024
Welcome to 8th edition of my annual top 10 books list! Each year, I read close to 100 books and distill down my 10 favorite security, technology and
oodaloop.com
December 2, 2024 at 2:27 PM
Do you like books? Here are my picks for the top 10 security, technology, and business books of the year. Also includes some fiction recommendations and a few honorable mentions that didn't quite make the top 10 list.
oodaloop.com/analysis/dec...
oodaloop.com/analysis/dec...
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We have a serious problem with vulnerable gateway/edge devices. Andrew Morris from Greynoise says exploitation of these types of vulns is at crisis levels. Get this stuff off your network boundary!
Full show: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rxye...
Full show: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rxye...
November 22, 2024 at 12:32 AM
We have a serious problem with vulnerable gateway/edge devices. Andrew Morris from Greynoise says exploitation of these types of vulns is at crisis levels. Get this stuff off your network boundary!
Full show: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rxye...
Full show: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rxye...
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Google's new report on the commercial surveillance industry calls out some shady companies that usually manage to fly under the radar, such as Negg Group and Variston: storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog...
storage.googleapis.com
February 6, 2024 at 7:35 PM
Google's new report on the commercial surveillance industry calls out some shady companies that usually manage to fly under the radar, such as Negg Group and Variston: storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog...
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Here is the free version of an investigative piece just published at The Post with our ace New Delhi bureau chief. wapo.st/3PBtyme
September 27, 2023 at 2:17 AM
Here is the free version of an investigative piece just published at The Post with our ace New Delhi bureau chief. wapo.st/3PBtyme
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“A few hours before departure from Moscow on August 23, two strangers entered the plane. They were brought by co-pilot Rustam Karimov. The man and woman presented themselves as potential buyers of Embraer Legacy, employees of RusJet. They inspected the plane for an hour”
Евгений Пригожин оборудовал самолет парашютами и унич...
Нам стали известны новые детали событий перед крушением самолета Евгения Пригожина. Источники рассказали, к�...
www.mk.ru
August 26, 2023 at 1:39 PM
“A few hours before departure from Moscow on August 23, two strangers entered the plane. They were brought by co-pilot Rustam Karimov. The man and woman presented themselves as potential buyers of Embraer Legacy, employees of RusJet. They inspected the plane for an hour”
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Welcome to the coldest summer of the rest of your life.
July 27, 2023 at 5:00 PM
Welcome to the coldest summer of the rest of your life.
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Interesting comment from @hultquist.bsky.social: "There was a time when they'd come through a simple proxy or even directly from China, but now they're connecting through elaborate, ephemeral proxy networks... It's not uncommon for a Chinese cyberespionage intrusion to traverse a random home router"
July 12, 2023 at 4:08 PM
Interesting comment from @hultquist.bsky.social: "There was a time when they'd come through a simple proxy or even directly from China, but now they're connecting through elaborate, ephemeral proxy networks... It's not uncommon for a Chinese cyberespionage intrusion to traverse a random home router"
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NEW: Chinese hackers compromised Commerce Secretary Raimondo's email as well as accounts of State Dept officials. Her agency has imposed stiff export controls on Chinese technologies that Beijing has denounced. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/07/12/microsoft-hack-china/
July 13, 2023 at 12:41 AM
NEW: Chinese hackers compromised Commerce Secretary Raimondo's email as well as accounts of State Dept officials. Her agency has imposed stiff export controls on Chinese technologies that Beijing has denounced. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/07/12/microsoft-hack-china/
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The head of #Russia’s #Sandworm wrote his master’s thesis on information warfare. I explained how he views destroying governments in it here: https://www.oodaloop.com/archive/2023/06/29/russian-cyber-war-an-elite-russian-hacker-spells-out-his-vision-for-information-confrontation-in-world-politics/
Russian Cyber War: An Elite Russian Hacker Spells Out His Vision for "Information Confrontation in W...
Editor’s note: This post by Dr. Bilyana Lilly provides insights into an aspect of Russia’s information warfare activities. Dr. Lilly, part of the OODA Network, is the author of the book Russian In...
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July 8, 2023 at 6:30 AM
The head of #Russia’s #Sandworm wrote his master’s thesis on information warfare. I explained how he views destroying governments in it here: https://www.oodaloop.com/archive/2023/06/29/russian-cyber-war-an-elite-russian-hacker-spells-out-his-vision-for-information-confrontation-in-world-politics/
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I took a brief look at Threads and you know what I don't want? A Twitter clone where I am followed by my relatives and people I went clubbing with 15 years ago.
July 4, 2023 at 4:18 PM
I took a brief look at Threads and you know what I don't want? A Twitter clone where I am followed by my relatives and people I went clubbing with 15 years ago.
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This post offers an overview of the latest Chinese surveillance laws & identifies questions foreign companies doing business in #China should address going forward
https://www.oodaloop.com/archive/2023/07/03/growing-risk-to-us-corporations-prc-laws-expand-ccp-oversight-and-surveillance-requirements/
https://www.oodaloop.com/archive/2023/07/03/growing-risk-to-us-corporations-prc-laws-expand-ccp-oversight-and-surveillance-requirements/
July 3, 2023 at 8:55 PM
This post offers an overview of the latest Chinese surveillance laws & identifies questions foreign companies doing business in #China should address going forward
https://www.oodaloop.com/archive/2023/07/03/growing-risk-to-us-corporations-prc-laws-expand-ccp-oversight-and-surveillance-requirements/
https://www.oodaloop.com/archive/2023/07/03/growing-risk-to-us-corporations-prc-laws-expand-ccp-oversight-and-surveillance-requirements/
Hacker summer camp is going to be a blast. Black Hat, Def Con, w00con, and lots of special village projects like this.
https://www.oodaloop.com/archive/2023/07/03/for-the-first-time-defcon-2023-hack-a-sat-includes-a-real-time-cubesat-orbiting-space/
https://www.oodaloop.com/archive/2023/07/03/for-the-first-time-defcon-2023-hack-a-sat-includes-a-real-time-cubesat-orbiting-space/
For the First Time, DEFCON 2023 "Hack-A-Sat" Includes a Real-time Cubesat Orbiting Space
At DEFCON 2023, “the U.S. military will stage a contest in which competing teams of white-hat hackers will, for the first time ever, try to penetrate and take over computer systems on a satellite ac...
www.oodaloop.com
July 3, 2023 at 4:45 PM
Hacker summer camp is going to be a blast. Black Hat, Def Con, w00con, and lots of special village projects like this.
https://www.oodaloop.com/archive/2023/07/03/for-the-first-time-defcon-2023-hack-a-sat-includes-a-real-time-cubesat-orbiting-space/
https://www.oodaloop.com/archive/2023/07/03/for-the-first-time-defcon-2023-hack-a-sat-includes-a-real-time-cubesat-orbiting-space/
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https://t.co/WWUnXL2qeo Non-paywalled analysis of new tech-savvy Republican presidential candidate
@willhurd, who once livestreamed his drive to DC from Texas with fellow House member
@BetoORourke.
@willhurd, who once livestreamed his drive to DC from Texas with fellow House member
@BetoORourke.
June 23, 2023 at 3:48 PM
https://t.co/WWUnXL2qeo Non-paywalled analysis of new tech-savvy Republican presidential candidate
@willhurd, who once livestreamed his drive to DC from Texas with fellow House member
@BetoORourke.
@willhurd, who once livestreamed his drive to DC from Texas with fellow House member
@BetoORourke.
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Microsoft services were hit by effective DDoS earlier this month. https://apnews.com/article/microsoft-outage-ddos-attack-hackers-outlook-onedrive-7a23f92ab3cc2b7f0c590c7d08cf03fe
June 18, 2023 at 12:09 AM
Microsoft services were hit by effective DDoS earlier this month. https://apnews.com/article/microsoft-outage-ddos-attack-hackers-outlook-onedrive-7a23f92ab3cc2b7f0c590c7d08cf03fe
My first Twitter post over 15 years ago was "Exploring Twitter", so I guess I'll settle for "Exploring BlueSky" this time.
Look forward to kicking the tires.
Look forward to kicking the tires.
June 17, 2023 at 2:31 AM
My first Twitter post over 15 years ago was "Exploring Twitter", so I guess I'll settle for "Exploring BlueSky" this time.
Look forward to kicking the tires.
Look forward to kicking the tires.