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During the Kyiv International Cyber ​​Resilience Forum 2025, the procurement agency of the Ministry of Defense «State Operator of Logistics» (DOT), together with the Ukrainian cybersecurity IT company Cyber ​​Unit Technologies, organized a Bug Bash for the DOT-Chain IT system for managing the logistics needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. SecOps or the lead developer of information protection systems of the DOT Information Security Department, Volodymyr Sukalo, and George Paparyga, an expert in conducting coordinated vulnerability detection activities and a member of the board of the Cyber ​​Warfare Research Institute, as well as DOT representatives, told dev.ua about the testing mechanisms and the participant selection process.

TikTok is being actively used by attackers to disrupt mobilization in Ukraine. This was stated by Oleksandr Melnychenko, a representative of the Information Security Department of the Security Service of Ukraine, during the Kyiv International Cyber ​​Resilience Forum 2025. But, according to him, communication has already been established with representatives of the social network, in particular, through the Center for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council.

Looking back, Oleksandr Berezhny, the chief operating officer of the German drone manufacturer Quantum Systems in Ukraine, says that everything turned out as if life was preparing him for this position. He has been in the position of Managing Director for almost two years, starting to develop the company for the production of German drones in Ukraine from scratch. Oleksandr Berezhny told dev.ua how it all started, what Quantum Systems has managed to achieve in Ukraine during this time, how the Ukrainian-German company is developing, what problems the Germans had to face in order to launch production in our country during a full-scale invasion, and why it is important to be in the right place at the right time.