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Matthias Schulze, 07.10.2024 The aim of this multipart blog series is to take a closer look at the various definitions one can find and dissect what types of actions the term “active defense” describes and how it contributes to security. The confusion with it stems from multiple reasons. 1) it is a political term, a…
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Matthias Schulze, 2.10.2024 On September 7, the FBI published a dossier on Russia’s systematic information operations against the West and Ukraine. The 270-page document reveals a kind of automated information warfare-as-a-service. The scope, frequency and methods of the information operations against Ukraine and the West are frightening. Is Germany able to counter this? Social media…
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The Shaping Cybersecurity Conference 2024, co-organized by the German Federal Foreign Office (AA), the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy (IFSH) and the Digital Society Institute (DSI) at ESMT Berlin, will bring together experts to discuss the challenges posed by China’s cyber operations and technological ambitions. The disruptive potential of China’s vision for a global Internet, driven by…
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Matthias was a guest on the “Berlin Security Beat” podcast, where he spoke about conflicts in cyberspace. You can listen to the conversation here.
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Matthias Schulze 22. January 2024 A German version of this blog post appeared in Tagesspiegel Background Cyber. As in Ukraine, the current war in the Middle East is once again being accompanied by a digital conflict. After two months of war, it is now possible to draw some preliminary conclusions about cyber capabilities in the…
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Matthias was asked to comment on the article “Das sind psychologische Spielchen”: Wie Russland einen hybriden Krieg gegen die Nato führt,” which appeared in Tagesspiegel. In it, Lukas Kram describes the principles of Russia’s hybrid warfare against NATO countries, which includes cyber operations, disinformation, and psychological pressure. All aimed at undermining the adversaries’ resilience. You…
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Cyberattacks and information operations accompanying the Russian invasion of Ukraine have underlined the disruptive potential of digital technologies well beyond the immediate conflict zone. Already prior to the war, criminal cyberattacks against critical infrastructure have become major national security threats, heightening geopolitical tensions due to tacit or even active state support. Against the backdrop of…
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Jantje Silomon 15 May 2023 Peeking under the Hood As mentioned in the last post, the ‘GPT’ part in ChatGPT stands for “Generative Pre-trained Transformer” – just one example of a transformer model in a family of many dozens. Two graphics by Xavier Amatriain illustrate the model boom and interrelationship nicely: Xavier Amatriain: Five years of models…
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Jantje Silomon 26 April 2023 Last November, OpenAI launched ChatGPT, a chatbot built on top of the GPT-3 Large Language Model (LLM) family. Its humanesque responses quickly garnered attention, from interviews and being hailed as “amazing, creative, and totally wrong” to calling it “dumber than you think“. It did not take long for people to try find…
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Mischa Hansel 16 March 2023 Cybercrime and the fight against are no longer a niche topic: the economic repercussions alone are too high, costing the Federal Republic of Germany over 200 billion euros annually according to an estimate from the industry association Bitcom. However, other costs – such as the social and political issues that can aggravate…
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