Bozho's tech blog

Age verification for using social networks is an idea that is gaining traction in multiple countries around the world – it started in Australia, then the UK, and currently sees increasing support in France and other EU countries, as well as in the European

Interest in a very sensitive digital topic has been gaining momentum in recent weeks – the so-called “chat control” – a draft EU regulation under which every message we send, even through encrypted applications, would be scanned for child sexual abuse mat…

The Trump administration began with a commitment to optimizing the efficiency of the government, introducing the so-called DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) under Elon Musk.

Cell-site simulators (also sometimes called Stingrays and IMSI-Catchers) are interception devices used to spy on mobile network communication.

Recently an organization I’m familiar with suffered a ransomware attack.

A few days ago a significant supply chain attack attempt was accidentally revealed – the xz utiliy was compromised, likely by a nation state, in order to plant a backdoor which allows sniffing on encrypted traffic.

Facebook is arguably the biggest social network.

SMS codes for 2FAs have been discussed for a long time, and everyone knowledgeable in security knows they are not secure.

Tension has been high in the past months regarding a proposed change to the European eIDAS regulation which defines trust services, digital identity, and the so-called QWACs – qualified website authentication certificates.

Yesterday, on an conference about disinformation, I jokingly coined the acronym MERDA (Monitor, Educate, React, Disrupt, Adapt) for countering disinformation.