In this month’s Hooked!, editor @katharinegk looks at some new details on the Great Firewall and recent Binding Hook articles on how countries from Japan to India are dealing with Chinese tech ascendency.

Just as China’s approach to cyber operations has developed, so has its counter-attribution strategy. Western attribution strategies haven’t kept pace, argues @weberv_ in his latest for Binding Hook:

Once hesitant, ‘middle powers’ like Singapore are now naming cyber actors, reshaping regional norms once dominated by Western nations. @BasuArindrajit and @GPriyandita look the exceptions:

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Despite progress in #cyberresilience, Japan’s constitutional limits and pacifist strategic culture still restrain fully offensive cyber operations. Read more from @orfonline’s @AVIRAL96:

SMEs make up 99% of UK businesses but most lack #cyberinsurance – an essential tool for financial protection and business continuity after cyber incidents. New research from @SciTechgovuk looks at why:

And second, they examine Indonesia and India’s somewhat hesitant approaches to attributing cyber operations in a world where more and more countries are taking stronger stands against cyber adversaries:

First, the authors analyse the reasoning behind the countries’ non-committal and flexible approaches to creating formal cyber strategies and designating official cyber ambassadors:

Today Binding Hook is taking a deeper look at Indian and Indonesian approaches to cyber with a pair of articles by @BasuArindrajit and @GPriyandita on #cyberstrategies, #cyberdiplomacy, and #attribution.

At Binding Hook Live in London on Monday, the main topics of conversation were China, capitalism, and conflict. Managing editors James Shires and @Maxwsmeets share some of their observations:

While @Microsoft's ban on IDF Unit 8200 using some Azure services might not have been October’s biggest web service provider story, it could have important lasting impacts. Read more in this month’s Hooked!

In his latest for Binding Hook, @Lawrence_Sec looks at how internet service providers work within the system to evade sanctions and enable #cyberattacks and #disinformation campaigns:

#Surveillance has become central to #counterterrorism in democracies, but its spread into daily life raises a key question: how much monitoring can a free society absorb without losing trust?

If the EU wants to strengthen its cyber defences, it must move beyond bureaucracy and forge a true culture of #civilmilitarycooperation, writes @VirtualRoutes fellow Isabella Neumann in Binding Hook:

The EU’s push for hashtag#digitalsovereignty has raised questions about reliance on foreign companies for sensitive tech like policing software. Ausma Bernot looks to China for answers in her latest:

Ukraine’s intelligence service announced in July that it had gained full access to Russian servers in Crimea, extracting over 100 terabytes of data. But what purpose does this openness serve?

Following the cyberattack on Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), RUSI's Gareth Mott (with @jasonnurse and @tjohansmeyer) argue that we must look past the headline figures for corporate losses and focus on the economic security of the hundreds of thousands of workers in JLR's supply chain.

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Last month’s #JaguarLandRovercyberattack may cost £3.5B in revenue, but the bigger issue is the impact on 230,000 workers at JLR and in the supply chain facing layoffs, work reductions, and lost wages.

About 100,000 North Koreans work abroad in fields other than IT, earning the regime $500M a year. Most wages go back to Pyongyang, despite sanctions. Labour exports are central to its strategy. Read more from @Kritikaroy_26: