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2024-07-19 TV2 asked me about the global CrowdStrike outage A faulty CrowdStrike update blue-screened Windows systems worldwide. TV2 spoke with me about what happened and why a single vendor update could cause that much disruption.
2023-02-02 TV2 asked me about TikTok on politicians' phones As Norway debated politicians using TikTok on government phones, TV2 asked me about the security risks. My take: it is less about the app itself and more about data, jurisdiction, and where you install it.
2022-06-29 TV2 asked me about the Killnet DDoS attacks on Norway When the pro-Russian group Killnet knocked over Norwegian sites like BankID and Altinn, TV2 asked me whether people should worry. My answer: this is muscle-flexing, not a threat to your identity or money.
2022-01-11 Naive to think there are no Norwegian cybercriminals Kode24 asked me about home-grown cybercrime. My point: it is naive to assume Norwegian actors don't exist, and we should be steering that technical talent toward ethical hacking.
2021-12-16 Digi.no on the Nordic Choice data leak Digi.no covered the Nordic Choice breach, where employee personal data was dumped online. I commented on what double-extortion ransomware means for the people whose data leaks.
2021-10-06 When a pentest isn't enough: playing the same sport as the attackers Digi.no featured River Security on why annual penetration tests fall short, and how continuous testing and attack surface management let defenders play the same sport as criminal hackers.
2021-09-24 Digi.no on the Sporveien breach: you can't investigate what you didn't log Digi.no covered Sporveien's data breach, where a lack of logging meant the case couldn't really be investigated. That gap is the story.
2020-12-14 Dagens Næringsliv on the Hurtigruten cyberattack Dagens Næringsliv quoted me on the extensive cyberattack against Hurtigruten, one of several ransomware incidents that hit large Norwegian organizations.
2020-09-07 NRK: how your email account gets hacked NRK had me demonstrate how email accounts get taken over. The uncomfortable truth: most of it is trivial, because we reuse passwords. Two-factor is what actually gets in an attacker's way.

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