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🛰️ Starlink endured one of its most serious global service failures on yesterday. The outage lasted about two and a half hours, traced back to a major internal software malfunction. Among others, it disrupted Ukrainian military communications that power critical drone and battlefield systems. Can governments and the military depend on a privately controlled satellite backbone? 📡

TL;DR
🧠 Software failure knocked service offline
🌐 Outage spanned ~2.5 hours globally
📉 Tens of thousands of users affected
🎯 Ukrainian warfront drone ops stalled

theverge.com/news/713359/starl
#Starlink #SatelliteInternet #CyberResilience #InfrastructureRisk #security #privacy #cloud #infosec #cybersecurity

A starlink dish against a bright sky as a jet flies past overhead.
The Verge · Starlink satellite internet service is down everywhereBy Richard Lawler
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@ViolaB Da kommen schon manchmal lustige Sachen bei raus.

Ich fand ELIZA[¹] früher™ faszinierend, als Heranwachsender. Es machte einfach Spaß, die blöde Maschine auszutricksen.

Wenn ich heute einmal die aktuellen Maschinen abfrage, fallen mir schnell Parallelen auf. Außer der Verbesserung der sprachlichen Nachahmung ist da irgendwie nicht viel passiert, eh?

[1] de.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA

de.wikipedia.orgELIZA – Wikipedia
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Free software is critical infrastructure, yet its upkeep falls on volunteers while giants like Microsoft or Google profit. As with other public goods, they should fund it via a dedicated tax feeding (like roads) a European fund (EU-STF) to ensure security and digital sovereignty. Europeans shouldn’t pay so Amazon can remain a free rider.

A year after CrowdStrike’s buggy update took down systems worldwide, we’re seeing just how deep it cut. At least 750 US hospitals saw network outages, with 200+ affecting direct patient care. That’s not a tech story, that’s a public health issue. 💀 ⚰️ 🏥 ⚕️ It wasn’t a targeted attack, but the downstream effects resembled one. Fetal monitors offline. Scans delayed. Record systems down. For stroke or trauma cases, that’s not a nuisance, that’s danger. The blast radius of this incident shows just how fragile hospital IT can be, even to a well-intentioned vendor misstep.

TL;DR
⚠️ 759 US hospitals disrupted
📉 202 patient care systems down
🧠 Study says outages likely undercounted
⏱️ Most recovered in <6 hours, but some >48

wired.com/story/at-least-750-u
#healthcaresecurity #cyberresilience #crowdstrike #infosec #security #privacy #cloud #infosec #cybersecurity

WIRED · At Least 750 US Hospitals Faced Disruptions During Last Year’s CrowdStrike Outage, Study FindsBy Andy Greenberg

Cybersicherheit im Bundestag – Warnen statt Handeln? Wenn die Bundestagspräsidentin Julia Klöckner jetzt vor weiteren Cyberattacken warnt, muss man sich fragen: Warum erst jetzt – und warum nicht längst gehandelt? Ein Angriff auf das „Herz der Demokratie“ ist keine neue Bedrohung, sondern ein lange bekannter Risikofaktor.

spiegel.de/netzwelt/bundestag-

DER SPIEGEL · »Begehrtes Ziel«: Klöckner warnt vor häufigeren Cyberattacken auf den BundestagBy DER SPIEGEL

🚨 Four arrests in UK ransomware probe targeting retail giants M&S, Co-op, and Harrods. The suspects, aged just 17 to 20, are linked to:
💻 Ransomware attacks
💰 Data blackmail & money laundering
📉 £300M profit loss for M&S
⛔ 46-day online store shutdown

Law enforcement from the NCA and FBI seized devices and are investigating connections to known threat group “DragonForce.”
M&S’s chairman is now calling for mandatory breach reporting laws.
This incident underscores how even elite retailers can be vulnerable, and why cyber resilience must be a board-level priority.
reuters.com/business/retail-co
#CyberSecurity #Ransomware #Retail #RiskManagement #NCA #FBI #CyberResilience

NIS 2 – Jetzt wird's konkret! Die aktuelle Timeline zur Umsetzung:

✅ Kabinettsbeschluss: Juli 2025
📬 Zuleitung an den Bundesrat: 15. August 2025
🏛 1. Durchgang im Bundesrat: September 2025
📖 1. Lesung im Bundestag: Herbst 2025
🎤 Sachverständigen-Anhörung: ebenfalls im Herbst
🔄 Weitere Lesungen und finale Beschlüsse: to be determined
📜 Verkündung & Inkrafttreten: bis Ende 2025
#CyberSecurity #NIS2 #Compliance #Informationssicherheit #ITSecurity #CyberResilience #Gesetzgebung #DigitaleSicherheit

l heard you're supposed to avoid "I love you" to strangers online because it can foster a sense of false intimacy;
it encourages parasocial relationships (which can be exploited for money or grooming of various kinds).
I don't mean it like that, for anyone wondering.
I mean: tbc, because char limit.
bsky.app/profile/mxverda.bsky.

Cont'd: "avoid parasocial feelings")
I say "I love you" to mean:
You, a being who interprets sensory input, generally finds discomfort unpleasant.
I want you to exist as sustainably comfortable as possible.
Your experience matters etc BUT you don't know my name or intentions. Exercise due caution!

Bluesky Social · Mx Verda (vey, vem, ver) (@mxverda.bsky.social)l heard you're supposed to avoid "I love you" to strangers online because it can foster a sense of false intimacy; it encourages parasocial relationships (which can be exploited for money or grooming of various kinds). I don't mean it like that, for anyone wondering. I mean: tbc, because char limit [contains quote post or other embedded content]

🚨 Hong Kong isn’t just defending finance. It’s rewriting the cyber playbook!

From CFI 2.0 to CRAF, Jayant D. explores how Hong Kong’s financial sector is shifting to proactive cyber resilience — and how Check Point is helping institutions lead the way.

🔎 Read more: blog.checkpoint.com/executive-

Check Point Blog · BEYOND DEFENSE: Hong Kong’s New Era of Financial Cyber ResilienceBy lizwu@checkpoint.com

What defines the field of social cybersecurity, and how can a human-centred perspective help us understand and counter digital threats?
The new book by members of our Editorial Team: Dorota Domalewska from War Studies University, @agasztold from University of Warsaw, and Agnieszka Wrońska from NASK – PIB, “Humans in the Cyber Loop: Perspectives on Social Cybersecurity,” maps out the field of social cybersecurity. It introduces a human-focused approach to tackling a wide range of challenges from phishing and radicalisation to disinformation, online abuse, and digital overdependence. Rather than viewing people as the weakest link, social cybersecurity recognises that individuals are active agents who both shape and are shaped by the digital ecosystem.
The book shows how emerging technologies and social networking sites influence our emotions, beliefs, and political behaviour and how hostile actors exploit cyberspace through hybrid warfare.
Published by with the support of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Poland under the “Excellent Science II” and “Science for Society II” programs, the book is a valuable contribution to the field of security studies. It demonstrates why protecting the digital world must begin with a deeper understanding of its human dimension.
Now available in #OpenAccess at brill.com/display/title/65157.