Ukraine: Cyber warfare and IT industry boycott of Russia – Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast
Summary
The first is Direct action is a risky business for Ukraine’s volunteer hackers, which discusses how a band of cyber irregulars have answered a Ukrainian call to create an IT army. Klein put out a statement on 2 March, Standing in solidarity, which expressed support for western government economic sanctions against the Russian Federation, and announced a slew of humanitarian aid efforts, including the opening up of SAP offices as shelter for refugees. On the podcast, Brian speaks briefly about the not-inconsiderable significance of Russia to SAP, and notes that Oracle also suspended operations in response to that call from Fedorov. Brian notes that a video interview embedded in that article, between its main author, Mackenzie Holland, and Nicole Lakowski, provides background context to the piece. This leads to some closing reflections about how Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky and his leadership team have used video and social media to defend their country against this current war of invasion.