Military use of IT

TikTokkers are using a little-known livestreaming feature to falsely represent Israelis and Palestinians—and the company is taking a cut of costly in-app gifts viewers give to participants.

Since the conflict escalated, hackers have targeted dozens of government websites and media outlets with defacements and DDoS attacks, and attempted to overload targets with junk traffic to bring them down.

The digital rules of engagement are the first time cyber activity has been looked at by the conflict watchdog, but a number of hacker groups have already come out and said they will not be following them

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The UK and its allies have attributed a novel malware campaign against Ukrainian state targets to the Russian intelligence-backed Sandworm APT.

A new Executive Order prohibits investment firms from supporting Chinese firms specialising inAI, quantum and advanced semiconductors

Global companies are offering free products to get access to live combat data. The Ukrainian government wants to keep this resource for its own emerging defense industry.

The UK government’s ban on TikTok should give all organisations cause to look into what information social media platforms are collecting on us, and what they are using it for.

Hacktivists have launched hundreds web defacement attacks against targets in Israel following the devastating attack by Hamas on Israeli civilians on 7 October 2023. Over 100 hacktivists launched over 500 attacks on web sites in Israel in the week following Hamas’ attack on party-goers in Kibbutz Re’im close to the Gaza border. The Hamas incursion, which led to 1,300 deaths was followed by a wave of defacement attacks Israeli websites to show support for Gaza and Palestine, according to researchers at Cambridge University. The hacking spree followed a similar patt

Hundreds dead, thousands wounded—Hamas’ surprise attack on Israel shows the limits of even the most advanced and invasive surveillance dragnets as full-scale war erupts.

Microsoft’s latest Digital Defence Report outlines how nation-state cyber activity has largely moved from destructive attacks to espionage and intelligence gathering, the increasingly prevalence of password-related attacks among cyber criminals, and the growing role of artificial intelligence and large language models by all actors.

Signs suggest the culprits worked within a notorious Chinese hacker group that may have also hacked Indian electric utilities years earlier.

The Pentagon’s embrace of military AI raises questions about what limits should be placed on the technology—and how to keep humans in control.

Following bans in the UK and US, France has moved to enact restrictions on TikTok, and other social media apps, on government devices.