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“You are in the house of Elrond. And it is ten o'clock in the morning, on October the twenty fourth, if you want to know.”
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A snippet of a longer convo @dcuthbert & I had about AI incidents. Ofc, started w PHP vuln. As Dan puts it ‘we’re back in the 90s’.More of these bugs will emerge, orgs will scramble to patch.For once,AI can support w defence,but it will depend if defenders know how to use it.
PHP vulnerabilities have forced governments and businesses worldwide to preventively pull sites offline within the last 24 hours, and with AI accelerating how quickly attackers can build exploits, how do we make sense of what is required to defend and respond to critical security issues like this one?
🗣️: Dan Cuthbert and @LouMarieHSD
Joe Tidy is the best journalist covering cybersecurity in the United Kingdom. He is not a web developer. But he has managed to reach literally *millions* of people around the world and inform them about cyber risks and threats they wouldn't have understood otherwise.
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A look at Burnham's 100 days with help of an FT focus group in Sheffield, hosted by @Scarlett__Mag who joins us on the pod. Plus @PickardJE and @OilSheppard taking you through the week and the Budget ahead
100 days of Burnham ft.trib.al/pB8JzwF
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A propos of nothing - Joe Tidy is one of my favourite journalists and a brilliant cyber reporter. The BBC are lucky to have him
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On the upside: The fact that old bugs are being discovered is a strong indicator for optimism: Old bugs are deep bugs that survived many years of code review. Finding a bunch of old bugs is the clearest indicator that technological progress in bug detecdtion is real.
If the cyber threat is state-sponsored attacks on critical infrastructure, payment systems, supply chains etc., why does the campaign’s own cyber page tell people to use passkeys, update their devices and back up their photos? That is not useful emergency planning advice.
A little treat for everyone this #TrafalgarDay sharing my little bust of Lord Nelson keeping watch from one of the shelves in the living room.
ALT A small bust of Horatio Nelson. The inscription at its base reads: HORATIO NELSON, and then, ENGLAND EXPECTS EVERY MAN WILL DO HIS DUTY.
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#OTD in 1805, the Royal Navy defeated the combined forces of France and Spain at Trafalgar.
The tactical brilliance, professionalism, technology and training which underpinned Adm Lord Nelson’s stunning victory have driven and shaped the Navy ever since.
#TrafalgarDay
Google is attributing this to a power event in one zone (europe-west2-b), which is part of its London region. It is weird that a fault in one zone (effectively a separate building, power, cooling, etc.) takes down others too, but has happened before: status.cloud.google.com/inci…
BREAKING: Multiple online services are down or 'experiencing issues.'
Google Cloud has reported "issues" in its western Europe region affecting dozens of websites, including; Revolut, Royal Mail and HSBC.
Latest updates ➡️ trib.al/M16q5UZ
📺 Sky 501
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The head of the army says the UK’s political leaders are about to start a “frank conversation” with the public about the need to prepare for war. General Sir Roly Walker said every citizen will be asked to make sacrifices and to play their part in the defence of the nation.
news.sky.com/story/army-chie…
Scoop from @daryna_antoniuk in Kyiv: The Ukrainian military can again use SpaceX’s Starshield satellite service on the move, as a Defense Ministry source told Recorded Future News on Thursday, days after sudden restrictions disrupted missions. therecord.media/ukraine-says…
This has got to be one of my favourite photos ever included as an exhibit on a U.S. Department of Justice indictment, right up there with Ding Xiaoyang's silly gun fingers.
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Frontier labs are some of the most high value intelligence targets on the planet right now. The most remarkable thing about the OpenAI spying case and FBI complaint today is that it took this level of absolute shit tradecraft to get caught here.
Surprising call about tech-enabled scams with the U.S. Department of Justice today. I heard Jeanine Pirro (whom I was previously unaware of) speaking in her role as the US Attorney for the District of Columbia, say “thank God” for tech companies.
Not a view I have heard before.
There’s an important discussion to be had about what amounts to “successful” interference in democratic processes.
As the DCMS Committee’s disinformation report found back in 2019, the concept of success is genuinely impossible to define in retrospect: publications.parliament.uk/p…
This is just not true. As soon as I became foreign secretary I asked the security services the same question and they replied that there was no evidence of any successful interference in the 2016 referendum, by Russia or any other power.
Either the security services have changed their view - which would be very odd - or Burnham is lying about what he has been told. After all Starmer was in power for two years and had access to exactly the same information.
theguardian.com/technology/2…
Obviously we cannot know whether that is the case. The counterfactual is the problem. To prove interference changed a vote, you’d need to know how people would have voted without it — and you can’t rerun the 2016 referendum with the sprinkling of Russian content removed.