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Defensive AI has limits. Every advance invites offensive adaptation, an innovation-countermeasure cycle that means AI alone will not close the offence-defence gap. bindinghook.com/cyber-defenc...
Cyber defence in the age of agentic AI requires a combined arms approach
AI has a role in cyber defence, but AI itself is not a strategy. Instead, defenders must combine technical, operational, and institutional ‘arms’
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This month’s editor’s pick is Max van der Horst’s look at the bulletproof hosting evidence paradox: urgent takedowns of criminal infrastructure can sometimes also remove evidence critical to proving that a hosting provider knowingly supported criminal activity.
Binding Hook@bindinghook.bsky.social · last wk.Governments are increasingly targeting the infrastructure behind #cybercrime, not just the criminals. But there may be an overlooked legal cost to taking down servers and domains, writes Max van der Horst in his latest for Binding Hook: bindinghook.com/the-evidence...
Can a state continue to exist when its core governmental functions depend on externally hosted digital systems? @virtualroutes.bsky.social fellow Fee-Marie von der Brelie explores the case of Tuvalu in Binding Hook: bindinghook.com/tuvalus-digi...
Tuvalu’s ‘digital nation’ challenges territorial assumptions in international cybersecurity governance
How can states exercise sovereignty when the digital systems and infrastructure underpinning state authority exists beyond a state’s control?
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Binding Hook managing editor and #spyware expert @jamesshires.bsky.social shares his most important takeaways from a recent investigation from Forbidden Stories on Morocco’s use of #NSOGroup spyware: bindinghook.com/three-takeaw...
Three takeaways from the Morocco NSO Group spyware investigation
Binding Hook managing editor and spyware expert James Shires explores a recent investigation from Forbidden Stories
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‘With the loss of its physical territory, a fully digitally sustained #Tuvalu would rely heavily on digital infrastructure and systems hosted abroad, placing core governmental functions beyond its direct control,’ writes Fee-Marie von der Brelie in her latest: bindinghook.com/tuvalus-digi...
Tuvalu’s ‘digital nation’ challenges territorial assumptions in international cybersecurity governance
How can states exercise sovereignty when the digital systems and infrastructure underpinning state authority exists beyond a state’s control?
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Can a state continue to exist when its core governmental functions depend on externally hosted digital systems? @virtualroutes.bsky.social fellow Fee-Marie von der Brelie explores the case of Tuvalu in Binding Hook: bindinghook.com/tuvalus-digi...
Tuvalu’s ‘digital nation’ challenges territorial assumptions in international cybersecurity governance
How can states exercise sovereignty when the digital systems and infrastructure underpinning state authority exists beyond a state’s control?
bindinghook.com
This month’s editor’s pick is Max van der Horst’s look at the bulletproof hosting evidence paradox: urgent takedowns of criminal infrastructure can sometimes also remove evidence critical to proving that a hosting provider knowingly supported criminal activity.
Binding Hook@bindinghook.bsky.social · last wk.Governments are increasingly targeting the infrastructure behind #cybercrime, not just the criminals. But there may be an overlooked legal cost to taking down servers and domains, writes Max van der Horst in his latest for Binding Hook: bindinghook.com/the-evidence...
Cyber defence risks falling into an AI-first trap: treating AI tools as decisive enablers. That logic fuels an AI arms race and can deepen the offence's structural advantage rather than close it. 🪝Read the analysis by Charles Falajiki: bindinghook.com/cyber-defenc...
Cyber defence in the age of agentic AI requires a combined arms approach
AI has a role in cyber defence, but AI itself is not a strategy. Instead, defenders must combine technical, operational, and institutional ‘arms’
bindinghook.com
Governments are increasingly targeting the infrastructure behind #cybercrime, not just the criminals. But there may be an overlooked legal cost to taking down servers and domains, writes Max van der Horst in his latest for Binding Hook: bindinghook.com/the-evidence...
The evidence paradox behind bulletproof hosting
Taking down criminal content sometimes means removing evidence that would prove hosting providers’ culpability
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Binding Hook managing editor and #spyware expert @jamesshires.bsky.social shares his most important takeaways from a recent investigation from Forbidden Stories on Morocco’s use of #NSOGroup spyware: bindinghook.com/three-takeaw...
Three takeaways from the Morocco NSO Group spyware investigation
Binding Hook managing editor and spyware expert James Shires explores a recent investigation from Forbidden Stories
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(1/5) As the UN Global Mechanism on ICT security concludes its first substantive plenary meeting today, here are four selected Binding Hook articles exploring the debates, opportunities, and challenges shaping the future of UN cyber governance.
The third edition of Monthly Cyber & Tech Digest for #nonprofits & impact driven organizations is out. This month's edition highlights how attackers are finding new ways into organizations beyond the traditional phishing email. Read the full digest: virtualroutes.substack.com/p/monthly-cy...
Monthly Cyber & Tech Digest #03
Cybersecurity and tech updates for nonprofits, charities, and other community organizations - without the technical jargon.
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Governments are increasingly targeting the infrastructure behind #cybercrime, not just the criminals. But there may be an overlooked legal cost to taking down servers and domains, writes Max van der Horst in his latest for Binding Hook: bindinghook.com/the-evidence...
The evidence paradox behind bulletproof hosting
Taking down criminal content sometimes means removing evidence that would prove hosting providers’ culpability
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You cannot secure what you cannot see. Max Marotti, Matteo Bonfanti, and Giovanni Faleg of the Italian National Cybersecurity Agency return to Binding Hook to discuss new developments in AI transparency from the #G7 Cybersecurity Working Group: bindinghook.com/why-transpar...
Why transparency must be the foundation of trust in tech-driven global order
Lessons from the G7 Cybersecurity Working Group’s Software Bill of Materials for AI
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Great piece over at @bindinghook.bsky.social about the recent OpenAI escape. Highly recommended:
Binding Hook@bindinghook.bsky.social · 2w agoThe laboratory responsible for the incident also controls how it is investigated and framed – and benefits commercially from emphasising the very capabilities that made it dangerous. bindinghook.com/the-openais-... #HuggingFace #OpenAI #cyberattack
(1/5) As the UN Global Mechanism on ICT security concludes its first substantive plenary meeting today, here are four selected Binding Hook articles exploring the debates, opportunities, and challenges shaping the future of UN cyber governance.
You cannot secure what you cannot see. Max Marotti, Matteo Bonfanti, and Giovanni Faleg of the Italian National Cybersecurity Agency return to Binding Hook to discuss new developments in AI transparency from the #G7 Cybersecurity Working Group: bindinghook.com/why-transpar...
Why transparency must be the foundation of trust in tech-driven global order
Lessons from the G7 Cybersecurity Working Group’s Software Bill of Materials for AI
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Check out July's edition of the Hooked! newsletter, on the use of spyware against an MEP investigating spyware: bindinghook.com/hooked-16-sp...
Hooked! #16: Spyware is bad and it is past time do something about it
Is our only hope giving up so much privacy that spyware becomes irrelevant?
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In her latest article for Binding Hook, @gil-baram.bsky.social Baram looks at the factors that determine how AI changes the cyber offence-defence balance: #cybersecurity #offensivecyber #cyberdefence bindinghook.com/the-ai-offen...
The AI offence-defence debate is asking the wrong question - Binding Hook
The balance between offence and defence is not determined by technology alone
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The laboratory responsible for the incident also controls how it is investigated and framed – and benefits commercially from emphasising the very capabilities that made it dangerous. bindinghook.com/the-openais-... #HuggingFace #OpenAI #cyberattack
OpenAI’s agent didn’t go rogue. Its governance did.
The breach of Hugging Face shows that testing frontier AI can itself become a dangerous form of deployment and that a safety failure can double as a product demonstration
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Fresh on Binding Hook, James Shires and Max Smeets explore how the recent breach involving OpenAI and Hugging Face shows that testing frontier AI can itself become a dangerous form of deployment, and that a safety failure can double as a product demonstration. bindinghook.com/the-openais-...
OpenAI’s agent didn’t go rogue. Its governance did.
The breach of Hugging Face shows that testing frontier AI can itself become a dangerous form of deployment and that a safety failure can double as a product demonstration
bindinghook.com
Fresh on Binding Hook, James Shires and Max Smeets explore how the recent breach involving OpenAI and Hugging Face shows that testing frontier AI can itself become a dangerous form of deployment, and that a safety failure can double as a product demonstration. bindinghook.com/the-openais-...
OpenAI’s agent didn’t go rogue. Its governance did.
The breach of Hugging Face shows that testing frontier AI can itself become a dangerous form of deployment and that a safety failure can double as a product demonstration
bindinghook.com
In her latest article for Binding Hook, @gil-baram.bsky.social Baram looks at the factors that determine how AI changes the cyber offence-defence balance: #cybersecurity #offensivecyber #cyberdefence bindinghook.com/the-ai-offen...
The AI offence-defence debate is asking the wrong question - Binding Hook
The balance between offence and defence is not determined by technology alone
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Check out July's edition of the Hooked! newsletter, on the use of spyware against an MEP investigating spyware: bindinghook.com/hooked-16-sp...
Hooked! #16: Spyware is bad and it is past time do something about it
Is our only hope giving up so much privacy that spyware becomes irrelevant?
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In this month’s Hooked!, editor @katharinegk.bsky.social explores the not entirely surprising revelation that someone was using #Pegasus spyware to spy on MEP Stelios Kouloglou while he was on a committee investigating #spyware. bindinghook.com/hooked-16-sp...
Hooked! #16: Spyware is bad and it is past time do something about it
Is our only hope giving up so much privacy that spyware becomes irrelevant?
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(1/7) Most discussions about AI security focus on what happens after deployment. But what if most significant security risks are introduced much earlier? Our new Pharos Report explores the security risks emerging across the AI ecosystem & why they matter for policy. 🧵A thread
(7/7) Pharos Report No. 5 | Navigating Security in the Machine Learning and AI Supply Chain: What Policymakers Need to Know by Max Smeets, Anna Sophie den Ouden, and James Shires. Read the full report: virtual-routes.org/pharos-repor...
Pharos Report No. 5 | Navigating Security in the Machine Learning and AI Supply Chain: What Policymakers Need to Know
The fifth report of the Pharos Series, authored by Max Smeets, Anna Sophie den Ouden, and James Shires, examines how security risks emerge within the machine learning and AI supply chain and what can ...
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Evidence that defenders are gaining ground deserves caution. Falling attacker dwell times only measure operations that were detected. The most effective AI-assisted intrusions may never appear in the data. Latest from @gil-baram.bsky.social: bindinghook.com/the-ai-offen... #AI #cybersecurity
The AI offence-defence debate is asking the wrong question - Binding Hook
The balance between offence and defence is not determined by technology alone
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In this month’s Hooked!, editor @katharinegk.bsky.social explores the not entirely surprising revelation that someone was using #Pegasus spyware to spy on MEP Stelios Kouloglou while he was on a committee investigating #spyware. bindinghook.com/hooked-16-sp...
Hooked! #16: Spyware is bad and it is past time do something about it
Is our only hope giving up so much privacy that spyware becomes irrelevant?
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