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  • The Continued Expansion of Cyber Incidents by Non-State Actors in the War in Europe

    Last week, a new hacking group took responsibility for the taking down of a Russian telecom satellite, which we interpreted as an expansion of the tactical activity (brought on by the instability in Russia) by Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) and non-state cyber actors on all sides of the multi-sided hybrid conflict in Europe.  The following…

  • Forget a Cyber Force, CYBERCOM is Doing Just Fine

    According to recent reporting, the Senate Armed Services Committee has requested a third-party assessment on the potential establishment of an independent military Cyber Force for the Department of Defense (DoD).  The six-month assessment would address such areas as the number of commands across the DoD cyber enterprise; the command-and-control relationships of each of these commands; budget and…

  • The Future of Copyright Law, Fair Use and Generative AI

    While the societal and business impact of AI continues to consume the headlines, the reality is the future of AI, to a large extent, will be formally litigated in the legal system. Following is an overview of the recently filed lawsuits with claims related to AI – followed by further resources and recent analyses of…

  • Growing Risk to International Corporations: PRC Laws Expand CCP Oversight and Surveillance Requirements

    This update captures the latest on PRC laws with a special focus on factors relevant to business decision-makers. The content here is tailored to what we recommend every corporate director/board member of international corporations know about these new surveillance laws. These laws post a risk to any company doing business in China, not only including…

  • 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 actually in orbit.  It took four years, but “this year, we are in space for real,” said Steve Colenzo, Technology Transfer…

  • The OODA Network on the IC, OSINT, the ODNI and Commercially Available Information (CAI)

    This is an extension of the initial post from the June 2023 OODA Network Member meeting, with a discussion from the meeting of open-source Intelligence and commercially available Information (CAI).  

  • New Hacking Group Takes Down Russian Telecom Satellite in Support of Prigozhin’s Wagner Group

    Last weekend, the primary risk awareness variable we encouraged our readership to track based on the recent events in Russia was the following: “The information threat vectors and cyber attack surface have been expanded:  Be on the lookout for how recent events have ginned up the tactical and strategic activity of Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs)…

  • CISO receives Wells Notice From The SEC: What corporate directors should know and do

    SolarWinds, the enterprise technology company made famous after suffering a nation state directed cyber attack in 2020, has been served notice by the SEC that further action is coming. Not only did they receive their own Wells Notice in October, but now two individuals, their CFO and CISO, have as well. This is the first…

  • Russian Cyber War: An Elite Russian Hacker Spells Out His Vision for “Information Confrontation in World Politics”

    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 Information Warfare: Assault on Democracies in the Cyber Wild West and a frequent contributor to our network membership meetings (see this summary).   Hakan…

  • It is Time to Declare War on Spoofers

    The time has come for the United States to mount a major effort to address the finding in last week’s OODA Loop: a new analysis from the FTC showed that bogus bank fraud warnings were the most common form of text message scam reported to the agency and that many of the most common text…


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