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The Cooperator’s Dilemma: How Martin Nowak’s Mathematics of Kindness Became a Blueprint for Control
Martin Nowak wanted to prove that cooperation is the animating force of evolution. He succeeded. His mathematical models, published across decades of work at Oxford, Princeton, and Harvard, demonstrate with formal rigor that cooperation is not an anomaly in a competitive world but a fundamental mechanism by which biological complexity arises. Genomes cooperate. Cells…

The Cooperator’s Dilemma: How Martin Nowak’s Mathematics of Kindness Became a Blueprint for Control | David Boles, Blogs
Martin Nowak wanted to prove that cooperation is the animating force of evolution. He succeeded. His mathematical models, published across decades of work at Oxford, Princeton, and Harvard, demonst…

After two glorious weeks off , Metacurity is back with a holiday round-up edition of the top infosec developments you should know, including
--Substation destruction and not cyber expertise likely led to Caracas power outages,
--Denmark says Russia was behind destructive cyberattacks,
--CISA staffers suspended after organizing polygraph test of acting director,
--Chinese cyberattacks on Taiwan jumped in 2025,
--OpenAI says prompt injection attack risks are here t…

Substation destruction and not cyber expertise likely led to Caracas power outages
Denmark says Russia was behind destructive cyberattacks, CISA staffers suspended after organizing polygraph test of acting director, Chinese cyberattacks on Taiwan jumped in 2025, OpenAI says prompt injection attack risks are here to stay, European Space Agency confirms breach, much more

student_cooperation: Student cooperation (2012)
Network of cooperation among students in the "Computer and Network Security" course at Ben-Gurion University, in 2012. Nodes are students, and edges denote cooperation between students while doing their homework. The graph contains three types of links: Time, Computer, Partners.
This network has 185 nodes and 360 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Multigraph, Unweighted

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Cyberattack forces British high school to close https://therecord.media/cyberattack-british-high-school-closes

Italy averted Russian-linked cyberattacks targeting Winter Olympics websites, foreign minister says
https://apnews.com/article/italy-winter-olympics-us-cyberattacks-security-01b6af8e64606f31836c91faa6653d12

Italy says it has averted Russian-linked cyberattacks targeting Winter Olympics websites
Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani says Italy has foiled a series of cyberattacks targeting some of its foreign ministry offices, including one in Washington, as well as Winter Olympics websites and hotels in Cortina d’Ampezzo. Talking to reporters during a trip to the U.S. capital, Tajani said the attempted attacks were “of Russian origin,” but didn’t provide additional details. “We prevented a series of cyberattacks against foreign ministry sites, starting with Washington, and also inv…

student_cooperation: Student cooperation (2012)
Network of cooperation among students in the "Computer and Network Security" course at Ben-Gurion University, in 2012. Nodes are students, and edges denote cooperation between students while doing their homework. The graph contains three types of links: Time, Computer, Partners.
This network has 185 nodes and 360 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Multigraph, Unweighted

Check out today's Metacurity for the most crucial infosec developments you should know, including
--Italy says it foiled Russian cyberattacks on foreign ministries, Olympics websites,
--NFL deploys cyber squad to secure Super Bowl,
--ShinyHunters takes credit for UPenn and Harvard attacks,
--Ransomware gangs are exploiting high-severity VMware ESXi sandbox escape vulnerability,
--Canada Computers & Electronics breach reached 1,300,
--SystemBC malwar…

Italy says it foiled Russian cyberattacks on foreign ministries, Olympics websites
NFL deploys cyber squad to secure Super Bowl, ShinyHunters takes credit for UPenn and Harvard attacks, Ransomware gangs are exploiting high-severity VMware ESXi sandbox escape vulnerability, Canada Computers & Electronics breach reached 1,300, SystemBC malware affects 10K IP addresses, much more

Greece says a radio failure that grounded flights is unlikely to be a cyberattack
https://www.wral.com/news/ap/f2ebc-greece-says-a-radio-failure-that-grounded-flights-is-unlikely-to-be-a-cyberattack/

Greece says a radio failure that grounded flights is unlikely to be a cyberattack
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s transport minister said Monday that a major radio communications failure that shut the country’s airspace a day earlier is unlikely to have been a cyberattack, though the cause remains under investigation.

student_cooperation: Student cooperation (2012)
Network of cooperation among students in the "Computer and Network Security" course at Ben-Gurion University, in 2012. Nodes are students, and edges denote cooperation between students while doing their homework. The graph contains three types of links: Time, Computer, Partners.
This network has 185 nodes and 360 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Multigraph, Unweighted