Gary P Shewan

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Infosec

LLM's and vulnerabilities

So the latest LLMs are better at exploiting one-day vulnerabilities according to a study. Much better at exploiting than finding. 87% success rate if the CVE has a description. That drops to 7% if there is no description. GPT-4 nutzte 87 Prozent bereitgestellter One-Day-Vulnerabilities ausEine neue Studie zeigt auf, dass

CloudNordic goes under

How bad can ransomware be? Last year the Danish cloud hosting company CloudNordic suffered a particularly vicious attack. Danish cloud host says customers ‘lost all data’ after ransomware attack | TechCrunchCloudNordic said a ransomware attack destroyed customer data on its servers, including primary and secondary backups.TechCrunchZack Whittaker Eight months later

The sound of online trackers

A core problem when explaining technology to normal people. How do you get across what can be a complex problem or issue easily and succinctly so folk can understand? It takes practice. Explaining privacy, data trackers, data brokers, data flow, cookies, legislation etc could easily be boring (so very easy)

The UN chooses Element

The United Nations has chosen a UK based organisation for its communications. Not Big Tech. Element and I’m surprised to say I’ve not come across them before. The United Nations ditches Big Tech in a bid for securityUNICC has chosen Element to secure its communicationsTechRadar proChiara Castro Secure,

Change Healthcare Hack

Some details of the Change Healthcare hack have leaked. Access via compromised credentials on a remote access system - that didn’t have MFA. Dwell time nine days. (Total cost for this they are estimating at $1.35 - $1.6 billion, $872m already realised) “Lawmakers have raised questions about

Being Verified and Privacy

As a much younger man (I think I still had hair colour) I went on a speed reading course. Company sent me. I approached it as I did a lot of courses at that age…suspicious. But it was really good. I started to be a bit more open minded.

British Library report on attack

Very interesting read. The British Library has released its report on their ransomware attack. Hit at the end of October last year and still recovering. Kudos to them for releasing this. Some key systems couldn’t be restored as they were just unsupported or just couldn’t be moved to