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Introduction: "Do nothing" or, an epochal crisis -- Systemic unpreparedness inducing a variety of psychological reactions -- The branches and social strata hardest hit : a list to be carefully remembered for the next systemic rupture -- Were nature, the environment and crime statistics "winners" of the crisis? Disputed "improvements" and their flip sides -- Children and relationships -- Labour and the economy : "generation Corona" -- Corona and re-globalisation 1 : sharpening awareness about the differences between political systems and their growing asymmetries -- A battle for values and transformation not confined to bilateral competition, but spanning the globe -- Unprecedented penetrative depth : uplifting technology, changing sexuality, questioning science? -- Corona and re-globalisation 2 : creating conscience for national and international reforms -- Intellectual rhetoric between cheap "humanistic" appeal and kitsch -- "Humanised" technology instead of a new humanism? -- A boost to "post-human hybrid intelligence" such as biological espionage and sentiment analysis? -- Striking a balance : was Corona a watershed for western humanism and the basic rationality of the enlightenment? -- The vast variety of political instrumentalisations -- Three more far-reaching aspects within global democracies and open societies : confirmation bias, "republican" turn and re-globalisation drive -- Corona : an unprecedented crisis accelerating the (temporary?) Rupture of advanced life patterns -- including gender role models in democracies -- "Unsocial sociability" and the re-shaping of the global order : anthropology and politics intertwined -- Medical diplomacy, or : the great divide of principles over and after Corona. More "do it alone" -- or more cooperation? -- Don't forget the bizarre, the surreal and the perfidious : from Mona Lisa to Sharon Stone and global terror -- Coronavirus crisis social psychology : between disorientation, infodemic and the need to understand -- Conspiracy theories : misusing the crisis for legitimating the absurd in times of "fake news" -- The perspective : the real question is not about COVID-19, but about "the world after" -- In search of examples of efficient resilience : from the evolutionary teachings of bats to regional self-administration within political autonomies to a "flexible" handling of constitutions -- Crisis resistance in the face of Corona and in anticipation of potential future pandemics : a short overview of different options of socio-political responses -- The primordial path to follow : enhancing resilience. Basic philosophical assumptions and their implications for crisis-policy design -- Revisioning the concept of resilience : a necessary step (not only) after Corona -- Progressing from resilience to multi-resilience : two basic approaches -- Five principles of multi-resilience -- Summary. Multi-resilience : a crucial topic to shape "globalisation 2.0" -- The Corona effect and "diseasescape" : towards weaker, but more realistic globalisation and transnationalisation? -- The uncertainty about the future of COVID-19 : short-term scenarios versus big-picture trends -- Technological requirements : six trends -- Towards a post-Corona world : seven upcoming conflict lines open societies should prepare for -- The post-Corona world : potentials and visions for a "better globalised" international system -- Chances and limits of resilience : the development paradox and the increasing danger of man-made disasters with multi-sectoral side effects -- Towards a broader and more integrated policy of future preparedness : contributions from selected guiding concepts -- Fostering local, national and international paths towards multi-resilience : leverage points for interrelated social change bottom-up and top-down -- "Health terror"? Towards an adequate framework for a post-Corona socio-political philosophy : "resistance" and power critique will not suffice -- Seven strategic recommendations for pro-positive multi-resilient policy-making in the post-Corona world of open societies -- Recommendations for global post-Corona policy-making in an increasingly multipolar world -- The (productively) ambiguous post-Corona vision : a "new world" ahead? -- "Corona positivism" : the global pandemic as an unprecedented "chance" for radical transformation -- or even as the epochal example for what (social) art should achieve? -- Corona as a driver of re-globalisation towards post-Corona globalisation -- A post-Corona core task : re-positioning the open systems of Europe and the West by the means of multi-resilience -- An end to geopolitical rivalry? Not likely -- despite some positive signals -- Back to business as usual -- or systemic improvements at the "evo-devo" interface? -- Integrating the obvious. Post-Corona, multi-resilience and "futures literacy" : "bring together what belongs together" -- Corona and emerging new responsibility patterns -- Outlook : a post-Corona world in the making. Towards difficult, but feasible innovation -- for the sake of a more pro-positive re-globalisation.

Um Computersysteme unerkannt und dauerhaft zu attackieren, können Angreifer Rootkit-Techniken auf der Zielplattform einsetzen. Industriespionage sowie Spionage auf politischer Ebene, das Überwachen von Computerbenutzern oder Verbrechen im Umfeld der Cyberkriminalität erfordern heimliche Angriffe. Eine Rootkit-Technik anzuwenden bedeutet, dass ein Teil des implementierten Angriffscodes für die Tarnung der Attacke zuständig ist. Angriffscode, der in Peripheriegeräten wie zum Beispiel der Netzwerkkarte zur Ausführung kommt, repräsentiert momentan den Gipfel der Rootkit-Evolution. Diese Arbeit untersucht solche vermeintlich heimlichen peripheriebasierten Attacken auf den Hostcomputer. Peripheriegeräte haben einen dedizierten Prozessor sowie dedizierten Laufzeitspeicher, um ihre Aufgaben zu erfüllen. Somit stellen diese Geräte separierte Systeme dar. Angreifer profitieren von dieser Art der Isolierung. Peripheriegeräte kommunizieren üblicherweise über den Hauptspeicher mit dem Hostsystem. Angreifer nutzen genau diesen Umstand aus. Sämtliche Laufzeitdaten des Hosts befinden sich im Hauptspeicher. Dazu zählen unter anderem kryptografische Schlüssel, Passwörter, geöffnete Dateien sowie weitere sensible Daten. Der Angreifer braucht diese Daten lediglich zu lokalisieren. Dann kann der Angreifer mittels direktem Speicherzugriff des Peripheriegerätes die Daten unerkannt auslesen oder modifizieren. Dabei werden Sicherheitsprogramme wie dem Stand der Technik entsprechende Antivirensoftware oder moderne gehärtete Betriebssystemkerne umgangen. Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, solche heimlichen Angriffe zu enttarnen. Es wird ein heimlicher Angriff mit Hilfe eines speziellen vom Hostcomputer isolierten Mikro-Controllers zu Analysezwecken implementiert. Der zugehörige Proof of Concept wird DAGGER genannt, was vom englischen Direct memory Access based keystroke code loGGER abgeleitet ist. Die Entwicklung und Analyse dieses heimlichen Angriffs bringt wichtige Eigenschaften von peripheriebasierter bösartiger Software zu Tage. Mit den gewonnenen Erkenntnissen wird ein neuartiger Detektor entwickelt. Der Detektor wird BARM genannt. BARM steht für Bus Agent Runtime Monitor. Dieser Detektor deckt mit Hilfe bestimmter Hardwareeigenschaften heimliche Hauptspeicherattacken auf. Durch eine permanente und ressourcenschonende Messstrategie ist der Detektor in der Lage, kurzlebige Attacken zu enttarnen. Solche Attacken sind möglich, wenn nur zu bestimmten Zeitpunkten gemessen wird. Diese Messstrategie kann der Angreifer ausnutzen, indem er zwischen zwei Messungen angreift und rechtzeitig vor der kommenden Messung seine Spuren verwischt. Der Detektor repräsentiert eine alternative Lösung zu bisherigen präventiven Schutzsansätzen wie zum Beispiel zu Memory Management Units, die die Ein- und Ausgaben von Peripheriegeräten berücksichtigen können. Die bisherigen präventiven Ansätze bieten aufgrund der praktischen Umsetzung nicht notwendigerweise ausreichend Schutz. Diese Tatsache sowie das Bedrohungspotential, das von kompromittierten Peripheriegeräten ausgeht, verlangt nach der in dieser Arbeit vorgestellten alternativen Detektorlösung. Der Detektor kann Angriffe nicht nur aufdecken, sondern auch unterbinden. BARM detektiert und stoppt DAGGER-Angriffe unverzüglich. Dabei entstehen lediglich unbedeutende Leistungsverluste. Zusätzlich ist BARM in der Lage, zuverlässig einer externen Plattform mitzuteilen, ob der Hauptspeicher durch ein Peripheriegerät angegriffen wird. ; Adversaries can deploy rootkit techniques on the target platform to persistently attack computer systems in a stealthy manner. Industrial and political espionage, surveillance of users as well as conducting cybercrime require stealthy attacks on computer systems. Utilizing a rootkit technique means, that a part of the implemented attack code is responsible for concealing the attack. Attack code that is loaded into peripherals such as the network interface card or special micro-controllers currently are the peak of the evolution of rootkits. This work examines such stealthy peripheral-based attacks on the host computer. Peripherals have a dedicated processor and dedicated runtime memory to handle their tasks. This means that these peripherals are essentially a separate system. Attackers benefit from this kind of isolation. Peripherals generally communicate with the host via the host main memory. Attackers exploit this fact. All host runtime data is present in the main memory. This includes cryptographic keys, passwords, opened files, and other sensitive data. The attacker only needs to locate such data. Subsequently, attackers can read and modify the data unbeknownst by utilizing the direct memory access mechanism of the peripheral. This allows for circumventing security software such as state-of-the-art anti-virus software and modern hardened operating system kernels. Detecting such attacks is the goal of this work. Stealthy malicious software (malware) that is based on an isolated micro-controller is implemented to conduct an attack analysis. The malware proof of concept is called DAGGER, which is derived from Direct memory Access based keystroke code loGGER. The development and analysis of this malware reveals important properties of peripheral-based malware. The results of the analysis are the basis for the development of a novel runtime detector. The detector is called BARM - Bus Agent Runtime Monitor. This detector reveals stealthy peripheral-based attacks on the host main memory by exploiting certain hardware properties. A permanent and resource-efficient measurement strategy ensures that the detector is also capable of detecting transient attacks. Such transient attacks are possible when the applied measurement strategy only measures at certain points in time. The attacker exploits this measurement strategy by attacking the system in between two measurements and by destroying all attack traces before the system is measured. The detector represents an alternative solution for previously proposed preventive protection approaches, i. e., input/output memory management units. Previously proposed approaches are not necessarily effective due to practical issues. This fact as well as the threat posed by peripheral-based malware demand the alternative detector solution that is presented in this work. The detector does not only reveal an attack, but also halt the malicious device. BARM immediately detects and prevents attacks that are conducted by DAGGER. The performance overhead is negligible. Furthermore, BARM is able to report if the host main memory is attacked by a peripheral to an external platform.

Spycraft and Social Networks in Tudor England -- New Monarchs, Reformation, and the Start of English Intelligence to 1553 -- Exiles, Diplomats, and William Cecil's Spies, 1553-1570 -- Regnans in Excelsis, the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, and the Foundation of Walsingham's Intelligence Service, 1570-1579 -- Jesuit Priests and Double Agents, 1580-1584 -- The Problem of Mary Queen of Scots, 1585-1587 -- Empire, Armada, and Non-Conformity, 1587-1590 -- Master Secretaries, 1590-1598 -- Kingmaker and Spymaster, 1599-1603 -- A New King in the Network.

"On a sweltering June evening in 1937, American Juliet Stuart Poyntz left her boardinghouse in Manhattan and walked toward Central Park, three short blocks away. She was never seen or heard from again. Seven months passed before a formal missing person's report was made, since Poyntz worked for the Soviet Secret Police and her friends (many of whom were anti-Stalinist radicals in the United States) were scared to alert authorities. Her disappearance coincided with Josef Stalin's purges of his political enemies in the Soviet Union and it was feared that Poyntz was a casualty of Soviet brutality. In Where Is Juliet Stuart Poyntz?, Denise M. Lynn argues that Poyntz's sudden disappearance was the final straw for many on the American political left, who then abandoned Marxism and began to embrace anti-communism. In the years to follow, the left crafted narratives of her disappearance that became central to the Cold War. While scholars have thoroughly analyzed the influence of the political right in the anti-communism of this era, this captivating and compelling study is unique in exploring the influence of the political left"--

"Award winning author Gregory S. Kealey's study of Canada's security and intelligence community before the end of World War II depicts a nation caught up in the Red Scare in the aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution and tangled up with the imperial interests of first the United Kingdom and then the United States. Spying on Canadians brings together over twenty five years of research and writing about political policing in Canada. Through itse use of the Dominion Police and later the RCMP, Canada repressed the labour movement and the political left in defense of capital. The collection focuses on three themes; the nineteenth-century roots of political policing in Canada, the development of a national security system in the twentieth-century, and the ongoing challenges associated with research in this area owing to state secrecy and the inadequacies of access to information legislation. This timely collection alerts all Canadians to the need for the vigilant defence of civil liberties and human rights in the face of the ever increasing intrusion of the state into our private lives in the name of countersubversion and counterterrorism."--

Die OSZE unterhält in der Ukraine die größte Beobachtermission ihrer Geschichte. Für die Umsetzung des Minsker Abkommens ist ihre Arbeit so unverzichtbar wie angreifbar. Beide Seiten bezichtigen die Mission der Parteilichkeit. Zivilisten wünschen sich ein robusteres Vorgehen. Echtes Peacekeeping aber würde ihr Mandat sprengen. (IP)

У статті за матеріалами архівно-слідчої справи і документів особового фонду радянських скульпторів Бернарда Кратка і Жозефіни Діндо досліджено біографію доцента Київського художнього інституту скульптора Жозефіни Діндо. Через призму біографічного дослідження окреслено репресії проти науково-педагогічної і мистецької інтелігенції в другій половині 1930-х років. Оприлюднено архівно-слідчу справу Жозефіни Діндо, яка відклалась у Центральному державному архіві громадських об'єднань України, за матеріалами якої вдалось уточнити і повніше висвітлити біографію мисткині. Матеріали архівно-слідчої справи у поєднанні з іншими джерелами дають факти для дослідження радянського політичного терору в усіх його проявах. Виявлено докази застосування слідчими жорстоких методів ведення слідства − побиття, знущання, приниження і наругу над ув'язненою. З'ясовано прізвища оперуповноважених, причетних до фабрикування справи та прослідковано їхні подальші долі. Проаналізовано зміст архівно-слідчої справи і встановлено, що за усіма ознаками вона належала до т. з. «альбомної» операції НКВC проти польської національної меншини. На прикладі біографії жінки-викладача, скульптора звертається увага на політику сталінської тоталітарної системи стосовно науково-педагогічної і творчої інтелігенції. ; This article is based on the archival investigation and private documents from the fund of Soviet sculptors, led by Bernard Kratkо and Josephine Dindo. It is a research, based on the biography of Josephine Dindo, the associate professor of Kiev Art Institute, a sculptress. The repression against the scientific and pedagogical intelligentsia in 1930s have been studied on the basis of biographical researches. Josephine Dindo was one of many women, female university professors, who experienced Stalin's repression.Archival investigation proceedings against Josephine Dindo have been studied, it was saved in the Central State Archive of Public Organizations of Ukraine. After revealing, it helps to clarify and to understand better the artist's biography.Josephine Dindo was born in Poland, then she graduated from Kharkov Art Institute. Together with a group of artists led by Mykhailo Boychuk, she participated in the design of Rural resort in Odessa and created there bas-reliefs in Boychuk's manner. She created sculptures of Soviet women toilers «Delegatka», «Batrachka», «Posudnytsya», «Molochnytsya,» «Zhnytsya» «Burachnytsya», children's sculptures, portraits and more. Her sculptures were recreated in porcelain in Horodnytskyi porcelain factory. While being a deputy head of the department in Odessa Art Institute, she reformed the training system for artists. She worked as an assistant professor in Kyiv Art Institute, where she was supervising a group of 10 sculptors during their graduation procedure. In June 1937 Josephine Dindo was arrested on charges of espionage for Poland and belonging to a terrorist counter-revolutionary organization which was led by Michael Boychuk, Ivan Padalka, Basil Sedlyar. She did not find herself guilty. In November 1937 special meeting of the NKVD of the USSR issued a verdict of 10 years of corrective labor camps.In the second volume of an archival investigation file, researchers found evidence of the use of violent methods of investigation, such as beatings, tortures, humiliation of a human dignity and abuse of the prisoner. Names of the investigators, who took part in the fabrication of the case have been found, and their fates have been tracked. After retrial in 1940 it was decided to reduce her sentence. It was decreased to the time equivalent to already served term (3,5 years) due to the fact that her counter-revolutionary activities had not been proven, and her sculptural works had elements of formalism and Ukrainian nationalism, and released from custody. Josephine Dindo was posthumously rehabilitated only in 1988.The analysis of the content of archive and investigation case has proved that by all its characteristics it belonged to the so-called «album» NKVD operation against the Polish national minority.In this research of the example of woman's, teacher's and a sculptress's biography the attention has been paid to policies of the Stalinist totalitarian system regarding scientific, educational and artistic intellectuals ; В статье по материалам архивно-следственного дела и документов личного фонда советских скульпторов Бернарда Кратко и Жозефины Диндо исследовано биографию доцента Киевского художественного института скульптора Жозефины Диндо. Через призму биографического исследования очерчены репрессии против научно-педагогической и художественной интеллигенции во второй половине 1930-х годов. Обнародовано архивно-следственное дело Жозефины Диндо, которое отложилось в Центральном государственном архиве общественных объединений Украины, по материалам которого удалось уточнить и полнее осветить биографию скульптора. Материалы архивно-следственного дела в сочетании с другими источниками предоставляют факты для исследования советского политического террора во всех его проявлениях. Обнаружены доказательства применения следователями жестоких методов ведения следствия ‒ избиения, издевательства, унижения и надругательства над заключенной. Выяснено фамилии оперуполномоченных, причастных к фабрикации дела, и прослежены их дальнейшие судьбы. Проанализировано содержание архивно-следственного дела и установлено, что по всем признакам она принадлежала к т. н. «альбомной» операции НКВД против польского национального меньшинства. На примере биографии женщины-преподавателя, скульптора обращается внимание на политику сталинской тоталитарной системы в отношении научно-педагогической и творческой интеллигенции.