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After Fighting Malware for Decades, This Cybersecurity Veteran Is Now Hacking Drones

Mikko Hyppönen, a renowned cybersecurity expert with over 35 years of experience fighting malware, has shifted his focus to defending against drones, particularly in light of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine where unmanned aerial attacks have become deadly. Now serving as chief research officer at Sensofusion, a Finnish company developing anti-drone systems, Hyppönen applies his expertise in malware detection to identify and counter drone threats by analyzing their communication protocols and disrupting their controls.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/04/after-fighting-malware-for-decades-this-cybersecurity-veteran-is-now-hacking-drones/

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Defeating a 40-year-old Copy Protection Dongle

Dmitry Brant’s blog features recent challenges with outdated software protection, including defeating a 40-year-old hardware dongle for a legacy RPG-based accounting program still running on Windows 98. The blog details a software archaeology process to extract data and bypass the dongle’s simplistic copy protection, ultimately allowing access to the software’s source code and enabling historical preservation.

https://dmitrybrant.com/2026/02/01/defeating-a-40-year-old-copy-protection-dongle

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