Школа інформаційної безпеки Archives

Information Self-help Groups as Information Security School Development

06-10-2021 19:17 Nataliya Zubar

Information Security School is the response of Maidan Monitoring Information Center to the challenges facing Ukrainian society and the state, including a hybrid war, and the COVID-19 pandemic, and the bad governance, and the tendency of the majority of the society to believe in all sorts of miracles.
We teach people information hygiene skills, practices of organizing and supporting groups with common interests, skills of effective communication with opponents, and practices of safe existence in information and cyberspace. […]

Joint Strategy for a Civil Movement to Resist Russian Information Aggression

15-08-2021 18:13 Nataliya Zubar

Main objective of this strategy is promotion of information hygiene as a tool for preservation of cognitive health in Ukrainian society. […]

“Pray because tomorrow will be the end of the world”: how an activist from Vinnytsia fights fake news on COVID-19

20-05-2021 14:45 Майдан Інформ

Oksana Yatsiuk, a civic activist from Vinnytsia, has proposed an idea to establish self-help groups to counter COVID-19 disinformation. To set up the groups, Oksana focused on her personal and information security training experience. […]

Celebrating the International Day of Factchecking!

02-04-2021 19:56 Майдан Інформ

So, let’s meet the amazing team of the maidan.org.ua, experienced in promoting information hygiene and running campaigns combating disinformation. They are now garnering civic leaders’ support and creating grass-roots self-help groups against the pandemic to build on the strong ties in communities and to raise awareness about the avalanche of COVID 19-related fake news. […]

Cognitive biases as a weapon of Russian information war

14-12-2019 18:48 Nataliya Zubar

Державна російська пропагандистська машина систематично використовує когнітивні упередження для просування штучних соціальних норм в Україні, Європі та скрізь, куди вони можуть досягнути. […]

Second International Security Forum in Kharkiv «FIGHT FOR MINDS IN THE TIME OF HYBRID WARS»

15-10-2019 15:34 Майдан Інформ

On November 29-30, 2019, the Second International Security Forum “Fight for Minds in the Time of Hybrid Wars” will take place in Kharkiv. We invite you to discuss different issues of hybrid threats, ideology, public opinion manipulation, promotion techniques of enemy’s ideas under democratic rule and information society. […]

English Articles

Cybersecurity in Ukraine – sharing the positive experience with V4 countries

30-10-2018 16:33 Nataliya Zubar

White Paper published! Assistance in Cyber Security for Ukraine and transfer of Ukrainian experience into Central Europe […]

Security in Russian Language. Is the Mission Impossible?

04-07-2018 18:53 Nataliya Zubar

What could the outcomes be for the people who use the word that defines the most fundamental human need and this word describes the unreachable state? […]

Defend yourself against Soviets

14-10-2017 13:26 Майдан Інформ

In honor of the Day of the Defender of Ukraine and National Cybersecurity Month in the U.S., I am putting pen to paper some thoughts that may help citizens of both countries defend themselves, ourselves. Here are some top level considerations for self-defense in a now borderless news and information world. […]

Russia never ended the Cold War

19-09-2017 14:15 Майдан Інформ

For much of the 20th century, and especially after the end of World War II and the emergence of the Cold War, an ideological clash existed between Russia and the West. In fact, the Cold War itself was the culmination of and a sustainable period for this clash of ideologies. […]

Inside Russia’s Social Media War on America

24-05-2017 22:23 Майдан Інформ

They say the best way to compete with the Russian model is by having a better message. […]

Grizzly Steppe on Maidan Website – New Russian Bears Found

08-01-2017 15:28 Nataliya Zubar

We had always attributed cyberattacks to Maidan website to Russians. Current findings confirm our previous conclusions. […]

Upcoming. Premonition of World Information War

27-10-2016 17:50 Майдан Інформ

Freedom of speech and global information war.
What are the markers of the victory in large-scale information war?
Individual and collective emotional defense against the large-scale psychological operations. […]

Maidan Monitoring Information Center Releases English Version of Ukraine International Framework for Information and Communication Security

17-10-2016 12:48 Майдан Інформ

Maidan Monitoring Information Center (MMIC) has published in English recommendations for reform of Ukraine’s international information and communication security; a community-based approach for national roll-out. […]

Investigation: Launch of the Ukrainian Government’s Electronic Asset Declaration System

25-08-2016 16:15 Nataliya Zubar

On August 15, the National Agency on Corruption Prevention of Ukraine launched an online asset declaration system to facilitate the transparent reporting of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian officials of their income. However, this e-declaration system was launched after it was refused as safe and deemed noncompliant with the law. […]