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Bluesky Should Outsmart China's Public Opinion Monitoring Tools to Safeguard Public Discourse

Sichuan Silence Information Technology: Great Sounds are Often Inaudible

Salt Typhoon: Churning Up a Storm of Consternation

China’s Trump Cards for Trump 2.0

Ransom-War in Real Time, Final Case Study: Tumultuous 2021

It's Not Magic: Making Your Choice is Powerful

The Red Dragon Searches for Pearls Through Quantum Tunneling – But You’ve Got the Wrong Paper

Ransom-War and Russian Political Culture: Trust, Corruption, and Putin's Zero-Sum Sovereignty

Business Priorities of Chinese Cyber Range Providers Go Hand in Hand with State Cyber Capability Development

Chinese Threat Groups That Use Ransomware and Ransomware Groups That Use Chinese Names

Flax Typhoon-Linked Company Integrity Technology: a Competitor, Business Partner and Client of i-SOON

RansomWar in Real Time, Case Study 2: Louisiana and Norsk Hydro, 2019

Ransom-War In Real Time, Case Study 1: Conti, EvilCorp and Cozy Bear

Reconnaissance Scanning Tools Used by Chinese Threat Actors and Those Available in Open Source

Matrix Cup: Cultivating Top Hacking Talent, Keeping Close Hold on Results

Ransom-War Part 4b: Ransomware Diplomacy

RansomWar Part 4a: CyberCriminals as “Combat Resource” and Bargaining Chip

Enjoy Your July 4 Holiday if You Celebrate

Who Has the Best Scanning Tools in China?

Ransom-War Part 3: Inflict Maximum Damage

Who is Volt Typhoon? A State-sponsored Actor? Or Dark Power?

APT41’s Reconnaissance Techniques and Toolkit: Nmap and What Else?

Front Company or Real Business in China’s Cyber Operations

Ransom-War, Part 2b: Profits Versus Patriotism

Ransom-War, Part 2a: Extortion Entrepreneurs and Their Patriotic Obligations

Ransom-War: Russian Extortion Operations as Hybrid Warfare, Part One

i-SOON Toolkit: What is “TZ”?

Too Many Toads: Lost in Translation

Intrusion Truth Methods: How Can They Get It Right Again and Again?

Natto Thoughts is One Year Old

Soviet Echoes and the Ability to Change: Reflections on the Funeral of Russian Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny

i-SOON Leak: Unanswered Questions and What Now?

Leaks Expose Chinese, Russian and German Security Fears

i-SOON Operations: A View from Kazakhstan

i-SOON: “Significant Superpower” or Just Getting the Job Done?

i-SOON: Kicking off the Year of the Dragon with Good Luck … or Not

Wazawaka & Co., Part 2: Patriotic Hacker

Wazawaka & Co.

When “Volt Typhoon” Blows Over: Cases of China’s Offensive Cyber Operation

The East Is Rising – Or Is It? Plus “Obituary Pirates,” Russian Information Warfare “Strategy Without Design,” The New Climate Denial, and How Libraries Arm the Elderly Against Disinformation

Does China Have a Timeline for Taking Over Taiwan?

History and Hope

China Looms over Taiwan Election; US-China Military Talks Resume; Bush's Legs and Putin's Eggs; Brittleness in Putin's System; China and Russia in Africa