Erik Johansson 🌻 🇸🇪

Cyber Security Evangelist - Researcher - Advisor - Contractor - CS3sthlm founder - Lecturer - Thinker - BEER-ISAC member

[Yasmina @yasminalombaert]

When Claude Malhuret speaks, you know you're not going to get the usual political spin. This is a man—a doctor, a former head of Doctors Without Borders, and a French politician—who has seen the world from the front lines and knows the difference between comforting lies and painful truths.

He is here to give us a necessary, perhaps even brutal, wake-up call about the most serious challenges facing Europe. He’s cutting through the noise to tell us exactly what we need to hear, not what we might want to hear.
Claude Malhuret lays out the unvarnished urgency of the current moment.

"Mr. Prime Minister, ladies and gentlemen ministers, I will not talk to you about strategy tonight. I will talk to you about urgency. And the urgency today can be summed up in one simple sentence: If Ukraine loses the war, Europe will find itself in direct confrontation with Russia and under the worst possible conditions.
The conclusion is clear: Ukraine must not lose this war.
'Worse than the executioner is his valet,' said Mirabeau. [ French politician and orator, one of the greatest figures in the National Assembly that governed France during the early phases of the French Revolution. ]
Those who are not yet convinced that Trump is putin’s valet should reflect on the latest events: an American peace plan drafted in Moscow. Witkoff advising the Russians how best to maneuver his boss, an obsession with sidelining Europeans from negotiations, a near-total halt to economic and military aid, a new national security strategy implacable against Europe and complacent toward Russia.

Today, at best, Europe is alone, at worst, it faces two enemies: Russia and Trumpism.

Tomorrow, in history books, we will no longer say 'Munich,' we will say 'Anchorage”.
We will no longer say 'Daladier' or 'Chamberlain,' we will say Trump, who is in the process of offering the Russians through betrayal what they are failing to conquer by arms—without forgetting, of course, to enrich his family and cronies in the process. In Europe, a president with such conflicts of interest would be immediately impeached.

The MAGA system is breaking all American values and forcing us to rethink all our strategic reflections, and worse still, to do so in uncertainty, at the mercy of daily changes in course based on the boss's moods. The only continuity in this senseless policy is to repudiate, humiliate, and vassalise all allies.

Churchill said that there is only one thing worse than fighting alongside allies, and that is fighting without them.

Trump and his real estate developers masquerading as diplomats will realise this the day they find out, at their expense, on a crisis ground, that no power in the world can do without allies.
Everyone has known this since the defeat of Athens against Sparta.

putin’s strategic objective is not Ukraine, it is the return to Yalta. He announced it in Munich in 2007, saying that NATO must return to its 1997 borders.
Listen to Karaganov today: 'The war will only end when we have defeated Europe.' putin’s goal is not to take territory, it is to take revenge on the West and its right, to return to a world ruled by force—a Concert of Great Powers: Moscow, Washington, Beijing.

Alas, this is also Trump's vision. For this, they must finish off NATO and the European Union. And the world of NATO and the EU, which seemed unshakeable, is revealing itself to be a colossus with feet of clay.

Europe is alone, and for three years, anaesthetised by three decades of tranquility, hampered by its divisions and the clumsiness of its procedures, weakened by its deindustrialisation, and terrorised by putin’s threats, it has barely managed to avoid the worst.

Thanks primarily to the heroism of the Ukrainians, it is time to regain control.

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[KT "Special MI6 Operation" @KremlinTrolls]

Man or woman?

[Martin Laine @Martinlaineolen]

“Our team fabricated a story about child abductions. Americans seriously published it,” a Russian official wrote. Russians exploit "useful idiots" and hide their tracks, knowing the West distrusts their outlets— citing US Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene as an example.

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[Erik Johansson 🌻 🇸🇪 @erijo08]

@KarlEmilNikka Neo vibbar 😎 Vi ses snart!

[Per Everhill @PEverhill]

För att klara elektrifieringen behövs globalt ytterligare 80 miljoner km elnät = lika mkt som totalt idag. Det kommer byggas mycket elnät de kommande åren! #elnät

[Eric Geller @ericgeller]

The U.S. government has a Microsoft problem.

Market dominance, inertia, and savvy PR have almost completely insulated the hack-plagued company from meaningful oversight, even as Biden officials preach corporate accountability.

My new @WIRED story: https://t.co/ckMUvY6AKN

[Oscar Jonsson @OAJonsson]

Oldie but goodie

[Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency @CISAgov]

With our partners @FBI, @NSACyber, @EPA, & @Israel_Cyber, we are alerting orgs about active exploitation of PLCs in U.S. Water and Wastewater Systems facilities. Read our joint advisory and learn how to protect your network from this threat: https://t.co/087UYjCIW4

[Mɪᴄʜᴀᴇʟ Tᴏᴇᴄᴋᴇʀ @mtoecker]

WHY IS THIS BEHIND THE COUCH?!?!

[Andrew Hay @andrewsmhay]

CISA Releases Nineteen Industrial Control Systems Advisories - https://t.co/2P3PlsSAiB #news

[Eric Garland @ericgarland]

<THREAD>
I have a copy of the FBI whistleblower's report to Congress which alleges that the Bureau protected Rudy Giuliani AND Russian intelligence AND the Ukrainian/Israeli Mob throughout the United States for years.

It's one of the most important things you'll ever read.

[Andrii Plakhotniuk @a_plakhotniuk]

Jag beklagar djupt Nobelstiftelsens beslut från igår att bjuda in Rysslands och Vitrysslands ambassadörer till den kommande Nobelprisutdelningen den 10 december 2023.

Jag har flera frågor till den ansedda Nobelstiftelsen – vad har förändrats sedan förra året, när er organisation tog en klar ståndpunkt för fred och humanism? Har Ryssland upphört med sina massiva missilattacker mot de fredliga ukrainska städerna? Har deras trupper dragits tillbaka från alla tillfälligt ockuperade ukrainska territorier? Har alla kidnappade ukrainska barn, civil gisslan och krigsfångar återlämnats till Ukraina? Har Ryssland gottgjort för alla sina skador eller lämnat över sina krigsförbrytare för prövning i internationell domstol? Svaret är uppenbart 'nej.'

Idag är det första dagen på höstterminen. Enligt Ukrainas utbildnings- och vetenskapsministerium har sedan den 24 februari 2022, 3750 utbildningsanläggningar skadats av ryska missiler och bomber, varav 361 anläggningar har förstörts helt. Det är den verklighet alla ukrainska barn möter när de återvänder till skolan idag.

All dialog med Ryssland baserad på rationella argument och uppmaningar att respektera våra gemensamma mänskliga värderingar visar sig om och om igen vara meningslös.

Beslutet av Nobelstiftelsen kommer sannolikt att tolkas av Ryssland som en underförstådd acceptans av deras brutala handlingar. Den enda vägen att få Ryssland att avsluta sitt aggressiva krig mot Ukraina ligger i den demokratiska världens orubbliga solidaritet, starka kollektiva enighet och beslutsamma respons – bland annat genom ett gemensamt ökat stöd till Ukraina inom försvar, finanser och humanitära områden. Ett fortsatt arbete för att intensifiera de diplomatiska ansträngningarna, utöka sanktioner och fördjupa Kremls internationella isolering är nödvändigt.

Jag uppmanar Nobelstiftelsen att ompröva detta beslut.

#NobelReconsider
#StandWithUkraine

[Carl-Oskar Bohlin @CarlOskar]

Idag läser vi @patrikoksanen

https://t.co/eZBvh3Alye

[Ken Shirriff @kenshirriff]

This Central Air Data Computer (CADC) was introduced in 1955. It computed airspeed, altitude, etc for fighter planes. But instead of a processor, it was an analog computer that used tiny gears for its computations. Let's look at how one of its modules works.🧵

[NATO CCDCOE @ccdcoe]

#LockedShields2023 has concluded! This year was even more competitive than previous years. As organisers, we saw a big jump in quality within the Blue Teams.

The most effective participants were the 🇸🇪-🇮🇸 joint team, followed by the 🇪🇪-🇺🇸 joint team and the 🇵🇱 team. Good job!

[Erik Johansson 🌻 🇸🇪 @erijo08]

🚨 #CISA released 8️⃣ ICS advisories on Mar 21, 2023. For instance vulnerabilities & exploits of
Delta Electronics, Siemens RUGGEDCOM, Siemens SIPROTEC 5, Rockwell Automation, Siemens SCALANCE, Hitachi Energy…

#CyberSecurity #ICSAdvisories https://t.co/3xLRLMugu8

[Shannon Morse @Snubs]

YOU DO NOT HAVE TO PAY FOR TWITTER BLUE TO USE BETTER SECURITY!!! 👏👏👏

There is a FREE option in the settings that you can use! 🧵

[Erik Johansson 🌻 🇸🇪 @erijo08]

@ics_Marty Great! I’m just leaving 🌴on my way to this ❤️ one…

[Erik Johansson 🌻 🇸🇪 @erijo08]

⁦Great discussion this morning between @digitalbond⁩ and Spaf about common Cybersecurity Myths and Misconceptions #S4x23 main stage

[Erik Johansson 🌻 🇸🇪 @erijo08]

@chrisblask present the virtual lifecycle of a product that become involved with a security incident at main stage #S4x23