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Assessment of DOGE and Musk’s Actions for Government Efficiency

Bozho March 23, 2025

The Trump administration began with a commitment to optimizing the efficiency of the government, introducing the so-called DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) under Elon Musk. On the first day, IContinue reading

Wiretap Detector App For Catching IMSI Catchers

Bozho February 16, 2025

Cell-site simulators (also sometimes called Stingrays and IMSI-Catchers) are interception devices used to spy on mobile network communication. A couple of volunteers, including myself, have built an app – WiretapContinue reading

Is Ransomware Protection Working?

Bozho June 25, 2024

Recently an organization I’m familiar with suffered a ransomware attack. A LockBit ransomware infected a workstation and spread to a few servers. The attack was contained thanks to a quickContinue reading

The xz Backdoor Should Not Happen Again

Bozho April 1, 2024

A few days ago a significant supply chain attack attempt was accidentally revealed – the xz utiliy was compromised, likely by a nation state, in order to plant a backdoorContinue reading

Why Facebook’s Lack of Customer Support Is a Problem

Bozho February 4, 2024

Facebook is arguably the biggest social network. The network effect makes it hard for people to leave Facebook, and so many businesses, celebrities, institutions, politicians rely on it for reachingContinue reading

Another Attack Vector For SMS Interception

Bozho January 18, 2024

SMS codes for 2FAs have been discussed for a long time, and everyone knowledgeable in security knows they are not secure. What’s more – you should remove your phone numberContinue reading

eIDAS 2.0, QWACs And The Security Of The Web

Bozho January 3, 2024

Tension has been high in the past months regarding a proposed change to the European eIDAS regulation which defines trust services, digital identity, and the so-called QWACs – qualified websiteContinue reading

MERDA – A Framework For Countering Disinformation

Bozho November 29, 2023

Yesterday, on an conference about disinformation, I jokingly coined the acronym MERDA (Monitor, Educate, React, Disrupt, Adapt) for countering disinformation. Now I’ll put the pretentious label “framework” and describe whatContinue reading

Anticorruption Principles For Public Sector Information Systems

Bozho September 2, 2023

As a public official, I’ve put a lot of thought on how to make the current and upcoming public government information systems resistant to corruption. And I can list severalContinue reading

Methodology for Return on Security Investment

Bozho August 19, 2023

Measuring return-on-investement for security (information security/cybersecurity) has always been hard. This is a problem for both cybersecurity vendors and service providers as well as for CISOs, as they find itContinue reading

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