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Europe is building stronger systems to report vulnerabilities, but it risks overlooking the people who discover the flaws first: independent security researchers, write @eubenincasa and Max van der Horst. Read the article: bindinghook.com/europe-forgets… #EUcybersecurity

📚 Through our Book Binder section, we explore the intersection of cybersecurity & emerging technologies, connecting leading publications to real-world policy, strategy, & technological change. Interested in contributing or nominating a title? Send it to: pitch@bindinghook.com.

(5/5) Debates over online harm taxonomies ultimately reveal political struggles over authority, responsibility and how to govern digital platforms.

(4/5) The US government now treats trust and safety work as censorship, banning visa holders it considers to be ‘censoring Americans,’ such as workers involved in content moderation and factchecking.

(1/5) Efforts to define “online harm” in the US are deeply contested, reflecting broader disagreements over speech, regulation and the role of government in digital governance. bindinghook.com/online-harm-ta…

Does the US government consider defining online harm as harmful itself? In her latest Binding Hook piece, @theodoraskeadas raises this question as deaths linked to AI chatbots raise urgent safety questions. 🪝Read the article: bindinghook.com/online-harm-ta…

In recent @euronews coverage on attacks affecting data centres, our Co-Director @jamessshires contributed expert analysis on the risks facing hyperscaler facilities, noting that a key response is to recognise them as critical infrastructure. Read article: euronews.com/next/2026/03/1…

Read the full article: bindinghook.com/europe-forgets…

Europe wants more vulnerability disclosure, but not all actors are equally protected. Our latest article looks at what this means for coordinated disclosure in the EU. In your opinion, what is the biggest obstacle to Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure in Europe?

(7/7) Digital elements are everywhere in this conflict, but some cruelties of war do not change, and even when coordinates are correct and timing is perfect, weapons can still fall and take an innocent life.

(6/7) Even in the so-called #precisionage, claims of accurate targeting sit alongside strikes that kill civilians, raising the question of whether precision is always real or sometimes a story we tell ourselves.

(1/7) Can we stop asking if it’s cyber war now? The latest escalation involving #Iran shows digital tools used to plan, conduct and present modern warfare, from hacked networks to internet blackouts, alongside conventional strikes. Read the article: bindinghook.com/hooked-12-can-…

Digital elements are everywhere in the latest #Iran conflict, but some of the cruelties of war never change. In this edition of Hooked!, @katharinegk contemplates what change all our technological progress has really wrought when the bombs are falling: bindinghook.com/hooked-12-can-…

(5/5) Ransomware, espionage, & sabotage. @milenkowski, @jirominier, @JulianVoeg, @Maxwsmeets, and @tgrossman_ examine state uses of ransomware, including Iran’s capacity for disruptive and politically motivated cyber operations. 🔗 Read the article: bindinghook.com/state-backed-r…

(4/5) Digital repression inside Iran. @mhajneam explores the ways the internet has been used to target and repress female activists in Iran. 🔗 Read the article: bindinghook.com/the-digital-re…

(1/5) 𝗜𝗿𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝘆𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗱𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻: our selected analysis providing useful context on the different ways #cyber tools have been used in and around #Iran.