EU CYBER RESILIENCE ACT FINALIZED IN TRILOGUES

Originally published on ifross.org on 13.12.2023

by Florian Idelberger

On 1st of December the negotiators between the Commission, Council and the parliament reached an agreement in the trilogues on the final text of the Cyber Resilience Act that was originally proposed by the EU commission on 15th September 2022 and which we reported on previously here.

THE EU CYBER RESILIENCE ACT (CRA) AND FREE AND OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE

Originally published on ifross.org on 08.02.2023

by Florian Idelberger

In the fall of last year, the EU Commission proposed a new regulation to improve cybersecurity in the EU. Specifically, it focuses on minimum requirements for “products with digital elements”. The current proposal would likely cause irreparable harm to free and open-source software, potentially isolating the EU software market from global open-source projects.

CTF WRITEUP - HACKTHEBOX - CYBER APOCALYPSE 2023

These last five days, I participated in my first CTF (Capture the Flag, a sort of scavenger hunt based on infosec related challenges to solve), partially because I wanted to get more comfortable with security topics and certain low-level computing topics, and the opportunity presented itself as some people in the channel of a hackerspace had asked for additional team members.