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Matt Devost
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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!
January 24, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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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
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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...
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
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BREAKING: court finds NSO Group liable for #Pegasus hacking of #WhatsApp users.

Big win for spyware victims.

Big loss for NSO.

Bad time to be a spyware company.

Landmark case. Huge implications. 1/ 🧵
December 21, 2024 at 1:37 AM
Interesting profile of an internal red team at AI company Anthropic.

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-s...
Their Job Is to Push Computers Toward AI Doom
It’s largely up to companies to test whether their AI is capable of superhuman harm. At Anthropic, the Frontier Red Team assesses the risk of catastrophe.
www.wsj.com
December 15, 2024 at 1:47 PM
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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 👇
December 2, 2024 at 1:56 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...
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
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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...
November 22, 2024 at 12:32 AM
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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
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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
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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
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July 31, 2023 at 4:06 PM
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Welcome to the coldest summer of the rest of your life.
July 27, 2023 at 5:00 PM
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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
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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
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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
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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/
July 3, 2023 at 8:55 PM
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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.
June 23, 2023 at 3:48 PM
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June 18, 2023 at 12:09 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.
June 17, 2023 at 2:31 AM