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Austria’s Spyware Law Goes Before the Judges. The Real Question Is Who Sells the Exploit.

June 12, 2026

On June 22 the Austrian Constitutional Court will sit in public session and hear arguments about whether the state may read your Signal messages. The hearing starts at 9:30 in the morning. I expect the courtroom to be full and

Analysis·Europe·Intelligence·Worldwide

Notes from a Cyber Intelligence Insider: How Digital Disinformation Really Works

November 22, 2025

The Greatest Danger is Hacked Perceptions For years, I have monitored cyber threats for governments and international institutions. From securing diplomatic missions across 12 countries for the German Federal Foreign Office (Auswärtiges Amt) to tracking the digital footprints of terror

Milipol Paris 2025 Analysis

Field Notes from Milipol Paris 2025: A Smaller Exhibition, Lower Expectations, and a Noticeable Lack

Encryption Vulnerability in Satellite Communications: An Open Door for Cyber Espionage

A newly published academic study reveals that nearly half of all communication satellites in geostationary

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Europe·Security

Berlin Closes a Consulate. Vienna Issues a Press Release.

September 2, 2026

On Tuesday morning the German government stood up and did something European governments almost never do. It named the perpetrator. The explosive-laden drone found near a Ukrainian cargo plane at Leipzig/Halle Airport on the night of 4 August was, according to Berlin,

Analysis·Europe·Security

Seven Years of Deliveries, One Arrest

August 16, 2026

On Monday, 10 August, the Interior Ministry put out a press release announcing a success. The DSN had dismantled an international network of companies that moved sanctioned industrial goods to Russia through a firm registered in Vienna. Machine tools and special metalworking

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Six and a Half Years to Say the Obvious: What the Turla Attribution Tells Us About Austria

August 5, 2026

On 14 July 2026 the Russian ambassador was summoned to the Foreign Ministry at Minoritenplatz. The reason goes back six and a half years: the cyberattack on the ministry around New Year 2019/2020, an incident that kept the Austrian federal administration busy

Analysis·Europe·Intelligence·OSINT

Vienna Buys the Bidstream

July 27, 2026

Austria has renewed a licence for a surveillance system built on advertising data. Nobody in government will say under what legal authority, and the data protection regulator was never asked. A procurement notice on Austria’s public tender portal records the extension of

Europe·Intelligence

Austria’s Spyware Law Goes Before the Judges. The Real Question Is Who Sells the Exploit.

June 12, 2026

Analysis·Europe·Intelligence

Vienna’s Antenna Forest and Austria’s Quiet Course Change

May 30, 2026

There is a stretch of road in Vienna’s 22nd district, just off the U1 metro line, where you can stand on one side of a small park and see the Russian diplomatic compound on the left and the UN City complex on

Europe

The “Between Peace and War” Doctrine Has an Austrian Problem

May 11, 2026

The day the White House announced it was withdrawing the United States from the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats, I happened to be in a meeting with a contact at the Federal Police in Vienna. He glanced at the

Europe·Intelligence·Security

Austria Finally Drafts a Real Espionage Law. The Ott Trial Will Decide Whether It Matters.

April 26, 2026

Austria has spent the better part of half a century letting foreign intelligence officers run operations from its capital, because the law, quite literally, does not care as long as the target is somebody else. Section 256 of the Criminal Code criminalises

Intelligence·OSINT·Security

Open Source, Ignored: Why Europe Must Get Serious About Social Media Threat Monitoring Before the Next School Attack

April 16, 2026

On April 15, 2026, a 14-year-old student walked into Ayser Çalık Middle School in Kahramanmaraş, Turkey, carrying five firearms and seven magazines. By the time it was over, nine people were dead. One of them was a math teacher named Ayla Kara,

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Austria’s Spyware Law Goes Before the Judges. The Real Question Is Who Sells the Exploit.

Notes from a Cyber Intelligence Insider: How Digital Disinformation Really Works

Milipol Paris 2025 Analysis

Encryption Vulnerability in Satellite Communications: An Open Door for Cyber Espionage

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Berlin Closes a Consulate. Vienna Issues a Press Release.

Seven Years of Deliveries, One Arrest

Six and a Half Years to Say the Obvious: What the Turla Attribution Tells Us About Austria

Vienna Buys the Bidstream

Austria’s Spyware Law Goes Before the Judges. The Real Question Is Who Sells the Exploit.

Vienna’s Antenna Forest and Austria’s Quiet Course Change

The “Between Peace and War” Doctrine Has an Austrian Problem

Austria Finally Drafts a Real Espionage Law. The Ott Trial Will Decide Whether It Matters.

Open Source, Ignored: Why Europe Must Get Serious About Social Media Threat Monitoring Before the Next School Attack

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