The recent Romanian election presents a fascinating case study of modern digital election interference, with many ramifications, but particularly through social media manipulation. What’s even more interesting is the ongoing development that seems to never end. While researching the cybersecurity aspect of the incident, the analysis went touched a bit of the political side as […]
Alex Macra
Opinionanted tech writing
Time passing is always constant, at least in the Newtonian classical world. Two days ago, on November 18, let’s encrypt had their 10-year anniversary.
Continuing from last month’s progress report. Ever since lowering the writing pace and reconsidering my approach to the cybersecurity blog, I feel a sort of calm (for now at least).
This month, I’ve been diving deep into how AI is reshaping software development lifecycles. After analyzing Stack Overflow’s latest survey and correlating it with real-world implementations and a few research papers, something interesting emerged: we’re asking the wrong questions again, just as we did with privacy-focused applications.
I’ve focused this month on researching the fall of Bohemia/Cannabia, the notorious dark web markets. This led me to several Finnish investigations and of course, it was a good time to read again about the first dark web market that was cracked down more than a decade ago: The Silk Road.
Less than a month flew by since the previous update, and I felt more progress than in the entire year since I’ve gotten back into content creation. A large part of this was due to the snowball effect of writing down drafts and blog ideas.
38% of AI-Using Employees Admit to Sending Sensitive Work Data, Says National Cybersecurity Alliance
Recently wrote about a recent survey by the National Cybersecurity Alliance (NCA) and CybSafe that revealed this information. Another good read on the topic is: AI hype as a cyber security risk: the moral responsibility of implementing generative AI in business. Going back to the survey, if we consider the social desirability bias, then this […]
Months have flown by since my last update in April. It’s now September 20th.
This year, January went fast, my honeymoon concluded, and February arrived with surprising swiftness as well. While it didn’t bring much time to settle in, it did however inspire a renewed passion for writing.
In the current landscape, the web and technology industry are constantly evolving, striving for innovation. At the same time facing potential disruptive forces that could change their paths.