Andrada Fiscutean @AFiscutean
Technology journalist • @KSJatMIT 2020 • @arstechnica, @BBCWorldService, @guardian, @CSOonline, @nature, @motherboard, @darkreading • [email protected] andradafiscutean.contently.com Bucharest, Romania Joined November 2014-
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#DocumentaryRecommendation 📱 The Spy in Your Mobile 📽️ A must-watch about the Pegasus scandal, where 65+ countries spied on journalists, activists, and leaders. A powerful look at how far surveillance can go. #PrivacyMatters #Surveillance
New Docuseries Spotlights Hackers Who Shaped Cybersecurity darkreading.com/cybersecurity-… by @AFiscutean
Mossad's exploding pager op began 10 yrs ago with explosives in walkie-talkies. Hezbollah bought 16,000+ of these, but Mossad didn't detonate them until this yr. In 2022 Mossad began booby-trapping pagers too. Unlike walkie-talkies, which only got worn in battle, Hezbollah wore pagers all the time cbsnews.com/news/israeli-m…
Great Reuters interview with Romanian pres candidate Calin Georgescu by @LuizaIlie shows up his policy: Romanian isolationism 🧵 reuters.com/markets/commod…
“CISOs should adopt a holistic view that includes people and processes ... . A superior process associated with weak technology is more effective than a weak process associated with superior technology.” csoonline.com/article/352663… Via @AFiscutean @CSOonline
𝗢𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲, 𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀-𝗼𝗻, 𝗽𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲! CTU's "Introduction to Security" Class opens online for free! Join us and register for free. Starting on Sep 26th. #cybersec #infosec #blueteam #redteam stratosphereips.org/blog/2024/9/3/…
.@Petrolicious is back and the 1st video features a @daciauk 1300. Check out the first video here: youtube.com/watch?v=dC3Kjn… #Petrolicious #Dacia1300 #ClassicCars #AutomotiveHistory #CarLovers
If like me you think that public verifiable randomness should be a free public good, read about the League of Entropy & @drand_loe and its inception 6 years ago @EPFL in this piece by @AFiscutean in @DarkReading : Creating Security Through Randomness | darkreading.com/remote-workfor…
I keep thinking about what a great conversation this was. Thanks @scifri and @iraflatow for asking me and the terrific @aznfusion to talk about this: Science Journalism Is Shrinking–Along With Public Trust In Science sciencefriday.com/segments/scien…
A damning new forensic investigation by @amnesty & @washingtonpost has unearthed shocking new details about the continued use of NSO Group’s highly invasive spyware Pegasus to target prominent journalists in India. amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
With over 400 alumni around the globe, this isn't just a fellowship, it's a growing, supportive community advancing science journalism for the public good. Applications close January 15! Get started: ksj.mit.edu/fellowship/
Nov 19th is UN World Toilet Day. Can breaking down the toilet taboo help tackle the world sanitation crisis? @thermoflynamics, @AFiscutean and @Tahtone lift the lid. Great presentation, do listen 🎧 #WorldToiletDay bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3…
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: The EU — in private — amended draft digital identity regulation to create a legally-mandated surveillance backdoor in HTTPS. Over 300 academics & tech experts TODAY publish an open letter calling on the EU to fix this + follow web standards instead:
Hot on the heels of #ChatControl and in the name of “identity” and “consumer choice” the EU seeks the ability to undetectably spy on HTTPS communication; 300+ experts say “no” to #Article45 of #eIDAS #QWAC alecmuffett.com/article/108139
@CarolineSteel3 @BBCRadio4 @owlglass Wooooooooooooow!!! Congraaaats!
Gaza is approaching a near total internet blackout edition.cnn.com/middleeast/liv…
Invasive spyware #Predator targets politicians, NGOs and a Berlin-based journalist buff.ly/46xRKwW #Staatstrojaner
⚡️Swedish journalists attacked by Russian drone in Ukraine. A car of two Swedish news channel TV4 journalists came under an attack by a Russian drone in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, leaving them unharmed but injuring their local Ukrainian producer and two policemen, TV4 reported on Sept. 20.
📚 TRAINING OPPORTUNITY #GIJN is offering a free, part-time online course on cyber investigations. It is limited to 20 participants and will take place each Monday and Thursday for six consecutive weeks. 🗓️ Apply by: October 6 ⬇️ buff.ly/48nc1am
Pegasus spyware, which gives intelligence agencies access to the entire contents of an iPhone, is now being used against independent Russian media in exile. The same software hacked Jamal Khashoggi’s wife's phone — right before the journalist was killed meduza.io/en/feature/202…
Mudge is joining the administration as a senior technical advisor "with an emphasis on helping its campaign to push software manufacturers to bake security into their products while they’re being developed"
First in the 202: Famed hacker and Twitter whistleblower Peiter 'Mudge' Zatko is joining the Biden administration washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/…
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