Bytes and Borscht

I absolutely understand the appeal of containers.

No matter what position you have, if you work in cybersecurity you will have to deal with phishing one way or another, be it messages, mails, or websites.

Initially, when I first started out becoming interested and working in Cyber Threat Intelligence I never gave the actual analytical part of intelligence much thought.

The war in Ukraine, now in its fifth year, has killed hundreds of thousands of Russian citizens, hollowed out what was left of Russian civil society, accelerated demographic decline, and reoriented Moscow's foreign policy toward a structurally subordinate…

There is a seductive logic to the current surge of optimism around AI-supported (or even entirely AI-based) vulnerability discovery.

A few days ago I stumbled upon an old article about the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack in 2021.

Please enjoy this list of books I read in 2025, 162 in all.

Whenever I sit together with information security people in a social context, at some point the conversation inevitably ends up at the same topic: The state of the industry and the lack of people.

As much as I'm spending more and more of my professional time these days on managing people and speaking to varying audiences while going through the motions of looking like I know what I'm doing, I like to still pretend to be an analyst.

I may not use SSH as much as I used to, but I still use it regularly.

As the name of this blog and previous publications on it might have already given away, I'm interested in Russia.

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program is a globally adopted system for identifying and naming cybersecurity vulnerabilities with unique IDs.

Disclaimer: I'm not a professional writer.

Since the dawn of the nuclear age, deterrence has stood as one of the central pillars in international security policy.

International dialogue on cybersecurity and "information security", especially with Russia (given that it seems like they might have an issue with cybercriminals acting out of their backyard, but I'm sure that it's a coincidence) might seem like a chance…