<div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>There's a group of our colleagues working to help out where they can.</div><div><br></div><div>Keep Ukraine Connected</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://nogalliance.org/our-task-forces/keep-ukraine-connected/">https://nogalliance.org/our-task-forces/keep-ukraine-connected/</a></div><div><br></div><div>FYI,</div><div><br></div><div>-M<</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 1:22 PM Sean Donelan <<a href="mailto:sean@donelan.com">sean@donelan.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
<a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2022/03/15/internet-technicians-are-the-hidden-heroes-of-the-russia-ukraine-war/?ss=cybersecurity&sh=75eb5cdd2884" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2022/03/15/internet-technicians-are-the-hidden-heroes-of-the-russia-ukraine-war/?ss=cybersecurity&sh=75eb5cdd2884</a><br>
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Images sent to Forbes by Kyivstar show what the conditions are like. <br>
Despite obliterated terrain and internet wires, fire-blackened data <br>
centers, curfews, lack of light, and the danger of death from above, the <br>
fixers go out and turn the internet back on so Ukrainians can stay in <br>
touch with one another and get word out beyond borders, to illuminate for <br>
the world the darkness that’s descended on their nation. Their government <br>
calls them the “invisible heroes” of the war, entering dangerous places to <br>
replace and upgrade equipment.<br>
[...]<br>
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Satellite outage caused 'huge loss in communications' at war's outset <br>
-Ukrainian official<br>
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<a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/satellite-outage-caused-huge-loss-communications-wars-outset-ukrainian-official-2022-03-15/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.reuters.com/world/satellite-outage-caused-huge-loss-communications-wars-outset-ukrainian-official-2022-03-15/</a><br>
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A senior Ukrainian cybersecurity official said that the digital sabotage <br>
that hit Viasat's KA-SAT network last month caused a massive <br>
communications outage at the outset of Russia's invasion.<br>
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Speaking to journalists on Tuesday, Victor Zhora said he could not reveal <br>
much about the incident, which crippled tens of thousands of satellite <br>
modems across Europe on the morning of Feb. 24, just as Russian armor <br>
pushed into Ukraine.<br>
[...]<br>
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New narrative forms on Russia-Ukraine cyberwar as Viasat outage <br>
investigated<br>
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<a href="https://www.scmagazine.com/analysis/cyberespionage/new-narrative-forms-on-russia-ukraine-cyberwar-as-viasat-outage-investigated" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.scmagazine.com/analysis/cyberespionage/new-narrative-forms-on-russia-ukraine-cyberwar-as-viasat-outage-investigated</a><br>
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Gen. Paul Nakasone, head of the National Security Agency, issued what <br>
retroactively seems like a carefully worded answer at a Senate hearing to <br>
a question about the relative lack of cyberwarfare during the war in <br>
Ukraine, saying that the U.S. was aware of "three or four" cyberattacks in <br>
Ukraine. He did not mention which attacks those were, though three or four <br>
candidates other than Viasat were already known to the public.<br>
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