Hacktivism
April 2025
April 2025
Vol. 8, Iss. 16
Robin’s Newsletter #357
MITRE CVE funding secured, for now. Florida lawmakers want in on E2EE backdoor. Silicon Valley traffic crossings hacked to play spoof Zuck, Musk audio.
October 2023
October 2023
Vol. 6, Iss. 41
Robin’s Newsletter #277
CISA publishes list of top 10 security misconfigurations. Red Cross sets out hacktivism rules of engagement. MGM Resorts says cyberattack will cost $100 million.
August 2023
August 2023
Vol. 6, Iss. 35
Robin’s Newsletter #271
Lapsus$ group pair court verdict. Ransomware dwell times are down. Cloud providers looses all their customers data in ransomware incident.
May 2023
May 2023
Vol. 6, Iss. 21
Robin’s Newsletter #257
Montana bans TikTok. Ransomware as activitsm. Fallout from Capita breaches escalate.
February 2023
February 2023
Vol. 6, Iss. 8
Robin’s Newsletter #244
Twitter to charge for SMS MFA. 'Anonymous' ideological attacks. GoDaddy discloses multi-year breach. The proliferation of 'risk dashboards'.
January 2023
January 2023
Vol. 6, Iss. 1
Robin’s Newsletter #237 — 2023 Forecast
My thoughts on the broad outlook and specific predictions for the world of cyber in 2023.
September 2022
September 2022
Vol. 5, Iss. 39
Robin’s Newsletter #223
Uber points the finger at Lapsus$; GTA games copmany rockstar, Aussie telco Optus, and fintech Revolut all suffer breaches.
July 2022
July 2022
Vol. 5, Iss. 31
Robin’s Newsletter #215
Facial recognition use at Co-Op convenience stores and 'secret blacklists' challenged in the UK. The opportunity cost in action bias. And protestware, the 'insider threat' of hacktivism.
Vol. 5, Iss. 27
Robin’s Newsletter #211
'Hacktivists' execute cyber attack against Iranian steel works, 'mercenary hackers' swaying legal battles, and malicious insiders
January 2022
January 2022
Vol. 5, Iss. 5
Robin’s Newsletter #189
Activists ransomware Belarus' state-woned railway company. New UK cyber strategy for government. Let's Encrypt re-issuing 2M certs.
August 2021
August 2021
Vol. 4, Iss. 35
Robin’s Newsletter #167
Microsoft's $20BN investment is on its own products, and they need the investment. Future of the UK's 'post-Brexit' data protection regime and new Information Commissioner. Samsung can remotely disable its smart TVs.
September 2020
September 2020
Vol. 3, Iss. 39
Robin’s Newsletter #119
YOLOsec, FOMOsec, business value and commodity controls. Plus a couple of examples of how hactivism is evolving.