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Paul Withers

@paul-cyfecta.bsky.social
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PhD Candidate, Department of War Studies, King’s College London. Researching cyber effects and information warfare

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Ann Jaensch @rostrot-texte.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Hannah Arendt, aktueller denn je: „Der Tod der menschlichen Empathie ist eines der frühesten und deutlichsten Zeichen dafür, dass eine Kultur gerade in die Barbarei verfällt.“ #HannahArendt
Exemplar der Hannah-Arendt-Biografie von Lyndsey Stonebridge „Wir sind frei, die Welt zu verändern“ (erschienen 2024) steht in der Metall-Skulptur „Imperial Love“ von Robert Indiana.
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 15/06/2025
Excellent pic
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RUSI @rusi.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
The SDR outlines sensible steps to improve defence in the cyber domain. But it leaves details to be developed, particularly about how the UK should operate in cyberspace, writes @joedevanny.bsky.social.
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Cyber and the Strategic Defence Review: All Pervasive But Light on Details
The SDR outlines a series of sensible steps to improve the coherence of defence in the cyber domain. But it leaves a lot of details to be developed in implementation, particularly about how the UK sho...
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Christophe Kopp @chkopp.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
"ATESH partisan group carried out a successful sabotage operation on the new Volnovakha-Mariupol railway section in the Donetsk region. This significantly weakened Russia's defensive capabilities on the front line," newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/atesh-k...
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ATESH knocks out key Donetsk rail line cutting Russian supplies
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Mick Ryan @warinthefuture.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
My short piece for the Lowy Institute on Russian bombers’ very bad day. www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpre...
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The three punch combo behind Ukraine’s spectacular drone strike on Russia
Drones make for a cheap threat to Russia’s war machine and a much-needed morale boost at home – but this attack won’t break Putin’s resolve.
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Dr. Eli Sommer @eklo.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Die massive Zunahme rechter Gewalt erwähnt Herr Dobrindt nicht... Mehrere Bundesländer betroffen: Rechtsextreme Terrorzelle soll Anschläge geplant haben - fünf Festnahmen Quelle: N-TV search.app/NNU6V Über die Google App geteilt
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Rechtsextreme Terrorzelle soll Anschläge geplant haben - fünf Festnahmen
In drei Bundesländern kommt es zu Verhaftungen im Zuge der Ermittlungen gegen eine rechtsextreme Terrorzelle. Diese habe mehrere Anschläge geplant, heißt es. Mehrfach soll versucht worden sein, die Ta...
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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
"Our 'we're not the Gestapo' shirts are raising a lot of questions already answered by our shirts."
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a man in a military uniform is asking are we the baddies .
ALT: a man in a military uniform is asking are we the baddies .
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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
This Denmark-Germany undersea tunnel is quite the engineering feat. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm2e...
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How the world’s largest underwater tunnel is being built | BBC News
YouTube video by BBC News
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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
This is great from @message4bob.bsky.social in the FT (£) www.ft.com/content/5522...
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The myth of the genius hacker
As the hype around ‘Scattered Spider’ shows, marketing is everything in the cyber security industry
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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 08/05/2025
After targeting Dutch provincial government sites and the Romanian election, NoName057 switches to targeting UK local government portals www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Pro-Russian hackers claim to have targeted several UK websites
Group that calls itself NoName057(16) appears to have had limited success disrupting council and other websites
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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
It takes a massive brass neck to have your administration attack another president for being disrespectfully dressed in a meeting and then turn up to the pope's funeral in a blue suit.
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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
By ratifying Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea, the Trump peace plan undermines one of the core pillars of the post-1945 world order—nations cannot change their borders by force. This is a reward for aggression and an invitation to more aggression. bit.ly/3YhkKqZ
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Opinion | Trump’s peace plan for Ukraine rewards Russian aggression
Accepting Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea would upend a core tenet of U.S. foreign policy.
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John O’Donnell @jodami.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The whole country has gone insane. A promotional fibreglass husk for a movie, featuring an animal of undetermined immigration status, was vandalised by two lads on the piss. He’s not Jesus.
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Rusty @el-presidente.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Surpassed only by the picture of Paddington stealing the police car 😁
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Kim Zetter @kimzetter.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
This is incorrect. "Signal...prevents anyone — including hackers, law enforcement or Signal itself — from accessing what is written or said in the app." Signal *only* protects texts in transit, not texts that are on the device. If hacker or law enforcement gains access to device, they can read msgs.
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Why government workers and military planners all love Signal now
The encrypted chat app beloved by Elon Musk and foreign dissidents has been embraced by federal government workers, DOGE and military planners.
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Paul Withers @paul-cyfecta.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
x.com/politlcsus/s... For those that still use the other place. Straight out of the Kremlin playbook. They’re creating a pretext to go in and protect the people of Greenland from an imaginary threat they’ve created. @keirgiles.bsky.social
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Politics US on X: "🚨🎥 WATCH: Vice President JD Vance will join Second Lady Usha Vance's trip to Greenland on Friday https://t.co/XEXtOMuX9p" / X
🚨🎥 WATCH: Vice President JD Vance will join Second Lady Usha Vance's trip to Greenland on Friday https://t.co/XEXtOMuX9p
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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 22/02/2025
An APT group named Angry Likho has made hundreds of victims across Russia and Belarus over the past two years. The group's usual targets include employees of large organizations, such as government agencies and their contractors securelist.com/angry-likho-...
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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
I don’t normally get worked up about the naming threat actors thing. But the Volt & Salt Typhoon is a disaster as it’s so hard for non-specialists to tell them apart: - Salt is Snowden style espionage by China against US - Volt is a direct 🇨🇳 military threat to degrade western infrastructure 1/2
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
lol China's state media is sad about Bluesky because it's not an easy propaganda distribution channel like X (and Facebook) www.semafor.com/article/11/2...
Chinese state media is reportedly troubled by the latest exodus of X users flocking to Bluesky. State outlets, which put considerable resources into amassing millions of followers on Elon Musk’s social media platform — including by buying ads, deploying bots, and hiring influencers — have recently seen their growth plateau.

The growing popularity of Bluesky, which has a largely liberal base and harder-to-manipulate algorithm, has sparked “worried chatter within Chinese state media circles,” a former Xinhua and China Daily employee wrote in his newsletter. He predicted the accounts will migrate to Bluesky, though it may take time. For now, the sector’s focus has shifted back to domestic, Mandarin-language channels and platforms like Bilibili, WeChat, and Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok.
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Paul Withers @paul-cyfecta.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
www.wired.com/story/russia...
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Russian Spies Jumped From One Network to Another Via Wi-Fi in an Unprecedented Hack
In a first, Russia's APT28 hacking group appears to have remotely breached the Wi-Fi of an espionage target by hijacking a laptop in another building across the street.
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