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Matt Devost

@devost.net
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Technologist, entrepreneur, and hacker | CEO @ OODA | Founder @DevSec | Past Founder of FusionX & Terrorism Research Center. Black Hat board member.

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DevSec @devsec.com · 24/01/2025
The DevSec team is excited to sponsor and participate in the premiere AI - Security hackathon: @nebulafogsf.bsky.social See you all in San Francisco!
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ooda.com @ooda.com · 23/01/2025
The Future of Deepfakes May Be as a More Targeted and Calculating Weapon buff.ly/3E91i8L
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Christina Ayiotis @christinaayiotis.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Eric Geller “ ‘An increasingly isolationist United States creates or amplifies a lot of problems that we're not going to be able to turn our backs on,’ says Nathaniel Fick .. ‘We may not be interested in the world, but the world is interested in us.’ “ www.wired.com/story/nathan...
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Biden's Cyber Ambassador Urges Trump Not to Cede Ground to Russia and China in Global Tech Fight
Nathaniel Fick, the ambassador for cyberspace and digital policy, has led US tech diplomacy amid a rising tide of pressure from authoritarian regimes. Will the Trump administration undo that work?
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John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
BREAKING: court finds NSO Group liable for #Pegasus hacking of #WhatsApp users. Big win for spyware victims. Big loss for NSO. Bad time to be a spyware company. Landmark case. Huge implications. 1/ 🧵
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Matt Devost @devost.net · 15/12/2024
Interesting profile of an internal red team at AI company Anthropic. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-s...
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Their Job Is to Push Computers Toward AI Doom
It’s largely up to companies to test whether their AI is capable of superhuman harm. At Anthropic, the Frontier Red Team assesses the risk of catastrophe.
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Ron Deibert @rondeibert.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
NEW MAJOR @citizenlab.ca report investigates the gendered dimensions of digital transnational repression Interviews with 85 human rights defenders in 23 host countries shows alarming harassment, intimidation, disinformation, hacking and other targeted attacks Women chilled into silence 👇
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Matt Devost @devost.net · 02/12/2024
Do you like books? Here are my picks for the top 10 security, technology, and business books of the year. Also includes some fiction recommendations and a few honorable mentions that didn't quite make the top 10 list. oodaloop.com/analysis/dec...
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Top 10 Security, Technology, & Business Books of 2024
Welcome to 8th edition of my annual top 10 books list! Each year, I read close to 100 books and distill down my 10 favorite security, technology and
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Patrick Gray @patrick.risky.biz · 22/11/2024
We have a serious problem with vulnerable gateway/edge devices. Andrew Morris from Greynoise says exploitation of these types of vulns is at crisis levels. Get this stuff off your network boundary! Full show: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rxye...
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 06/02/2024
Google's new report on the commercial surveillance industry calls out some shady companies that usually manage to fly under the radar, such as Negg Group and Variston: storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog...
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Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · 27/09/2023
Here is the free version of an investigative piece just published at The Post with our ace New Delhi bureau chief. wapo.st/3PBtyme
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Dmitri Alperovitch @dmitri.silverado.org · 26/08/2023
“A few hours before departure from Moscow on August 23, two strangers entered the plane. They were brought by co-pilot Rustam Karimov. The man and woman presented themselves as potential buyers of Embraer Legacy, employees of RusJet. They inspected the plane for an hour”
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Евгений Пригожин оборудовал самолет парашютами и унич...
Нам стали известны новые детали событий перед крушением самолета Евгения Пригожина. Источники рассказали, к�...
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Riley “caezar” E. @caezar.io · 31/07/2023
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John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social · 27/07/2023
Welcome to the coldest summer of the rest of your life.
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Kim Zetter @kimzetter.bsky.social · 12/07/2023
Interesting comment from @hultquist.bsky.social: "There was a time when they'd come through a simple proxy or even directly from China, but now they're connecting through elaborate, ephemeral proxy networks... It's not uncommon for a Chinese cyberespionage intrusion to traverse a random home router"
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Ellen Nakashima @ellenwapo.bsky.social · 13/07/2023
NEW: Chinese hackers compromised Commerce Secretary Raimondo's email as well as accounts of State Dept officials. Her agency has imposed stiff export controls on Chinese technologies that Beijing has denounced. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec…
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Dr. Bilyana Lilly 🦋🌻 @bilyanalilly.bsky.social · 08/07/2023
The head of #Russia’s #Sandworm wrote his master’s thesis on information warfare. I explained how he views destroying governments in it here: www.oodaloop.com/archive/2023/06/29…
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Russian Cyber War: An Elite Russian Hacker Spells Out His Vision for "Information Confrontation in W...
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 In...
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 04/07/2023
I took a brief look at Threads and you know what I don't want? A Twitter clone where I am followed by my relatives and people I went clubbing with 15 years ago.
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Dr. Bilyana Lilly 🦋🌻 @bilyanalilly.bsky.social · 03/07/2023
This post offers an overview of the latest Chinese surveillance laws & identifies questions foreign companies doing business in #China should address going forward www.oodaloop.com/archive/2023/07/03…
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Growing Risk to International Corporations: PRC Laws Expand CCP Oversight and Surveillance Requireme...
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 membe...
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Matt Devost @devost.net · 03/07/2023
Hacker summer camp is going to be a blast. Black Hat, Def Con, w00con, and lots of special village projects like this. www.oodaloop.com/archive/2023/07/03…
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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 ac...
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Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · 23/06/2023
t.co/WWUnXL2qeo Non-paywalled analysis of new tech-savvy Republican presidential candidate @willhurd, who once livestreamed his drive to DC from Texas with fellow House member @BetoORourke.
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Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · 18/06/2023
Microsoft services were hit by effective DDoS earlier this month. apnews.com/article/microsoft-outage…
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Matt Devost @devost.net · 17/06/2023
My first Twitter post over 15 years ago was "Exploring Twitter", so I guess I'll settle for "Exploring BlueSky" this time. Look forward to kicking the tires.
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