Severed connections A string of disruptions to undersea cables in the Baltic and South China and Red Seas has heightened concerns over the security of critical infrastructure.

🚨Multiple Russian submarines were detected spying on underwater cables and pipelines in and around UK waters while the world was distracted with Iran. #SecDev has tracked the spread of hybrid tactics across Europe over the last year. @mishaglenny.bsky.social flashnote.secdev.com/p/severed-co...

#whiskeypete #winning #dod #secdev

The Ballot and the Bullet Across Latin America, organised crime is not just killing people, it is also killing democracy

Chile’s runoff win for hardliner Kast signals a wider shift: across Latin America, organized #crime is reshaping #democracy. Even where violence falls, fear drives voters toward “iron fist” politics—trading rights for the promise of control. #SecDev

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Kristi Noem’s Bag, With Security Badge and $3,000, Is Stolen The homeland security secretary was dining at a Washington, D.C., restaurant. She also lost her passport and keys.

Our #SecDev shares the nation's secrets on his #Signal fiends & family plan. Our Head of Homeland Security can't keep track of her purse (in her defense, she wasn't home at the time). On the positive side under the #SAVEAct #Noem (Gnome?) can't vote until she gets a new passport. bit.ly/42LXjHR

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Secure by design: what we can learn from the financial services sector Cultivate a winning developer-driven security culture by leveraging lessons-learned from the financial services sector.. @cosmicmeta.io #SecDev

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What are Ukraine’s critical minerals actually worth? No one knows. Trump’s meeting with Zelensky comes as Washington and Kyiv hammer out a mineral deal, with war aid on the line. But the value of Ukraine’s minerals is murky.

“Extracting many of the critical minerals the United States seeks would “require billions in investment,” said Robert Muggah, principal at #SecDev, a geopolitical and digital risk company that has studied Ukraine’s resources.” www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Why is Ukraine negotiating a minerals deal with the US? A minister says nearly all key details have been finalised for a deal giving the US access to the country's minerals.

#Russia currently occupies over 60% of Ukrainian coal mines, and a share of caesium, lithium, manganese and rare earth deposits. As I told #BBC this potentially denies revenue to #Ukraine and deepens Russian influence across supply chains. #SecDev

www.bbc.com/news/article...

How Ukraine Pitched Trump on a Deal for Critical Minerals President Trump says he wants to make a deal for minerals from Ukraine in exchange for aid. That followed a long effort by Ukrainian officials to appeal to Mr. Trump’s transactional nature.

Ukraine is courting the #US on critical minerals to deepen security and economic entanglement. As #SecDev told the #NYT, there are +/- $12 trillion of hydrocarbons (especially coal) and minerals (including lithium and rare earths) in Russian-occupied areas.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/w...

In 2022, I estimated that #Ukraine held $26 trillion in hydrocarbon and critical mineral reserves. In the same FP article I said $12 trillion was in #Russian-occupied areas. Graham and Trump recently cited these figures. We shed more light on what's at stake. #Horizons_CIRSD #SecDev

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"However this turns out, the Senate owns this."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxpD... #politics #secdev

I'm surprised he didn't give Flynn #SecDev
I bet he has a role from him.

#MikeFlynnIsQ