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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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Decoding the 90s: a Journey Into Reverse Engineering and Cryptography in Early Software Development

TLDR: The blog post chronicles reverse engineering the QText word processor from the 1990s, focused on recovering locked documents by analyzing their encryption and passcode derivation. It details the process of dissecting the MS-DOS executable, understanding the encryption behavior, and eventually deriving the passcode through a custom Python script, emphasizing the challenges and methods used in early software cryptography.

https://www.botanica.software/post/decoding-the-90s

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