My little corner of the internet
A blog where I rambles about cybersecurity and other things.
Most of it makes sense, but some might not.
Different Kinds of Cybersecurity
In the world of cybersecurity there is a lot of specific definitions, a type of insider lingo that we assume that everyone agrees on the definition of. However, herein lies the problem. We assume, without discussing. I have ended up in multiple discussions that occurs due to different interpretations of a definition. In this post I’ll give my view of one of the biggest differences of definition that I have seen, namely what we include in the term cybersecurity....
Threat Modelling and Threat Actors
As security professionals working with software components it is not always easy to prioritise what security raising actions should be prioritised. According to most security standards (such as ISO27000) require a risk based security approach. Regardless if we are building our own applications, or we are installing third party software in our network we need to understand what threats there are to our environment. After understanding what threats there are, we prioritise them and thereby also prioritise what actions we should take to minimise the risk....
Privacy in the European Union and the World
Lately there has been an increase in discussions about the use of end-to-end encryption for consumers. The most blatant attack on privacy I have read about is the so-called EU Chat Control. But there are other regulations as well, such as the UK Online Safety Bill. Chat Control (EU) Let’s begin with the European Union, and what is usually called Chat Control. This regulation aims to protect children from abuse by forcing both hosting and communications services to reduce the risk of the service being used for Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) by...
Governments Influencing Wikipedia?
It has recently been reported by The Guardian that Saudi Arabia has taken serious steps to influence the information available at Wikipedia. The investigations began after two volunteers at Wikipedia were put in jail for “swaying public opinion” and “violating public morals.” Since then Saudi Arabia seems to have stepped up their efforts to influence the public view. An internal investigation at Wikimedia showed that all of their administrators in the country were government agents....
Thoughts on Mastodon
Over the holidays I finally took my time to dig into Masodon. It has been a bit of a journey, both to understand how it works, and how to use it. From the start it feels like twitter, but as you use it you see the differences and realise how different they are. Regardless I do now feel at home on Mastodon, and the lack of an algorithm feeding posts it thinks I will like is most refreshing....