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A collection of 50 issues

Sellafield trouble

This is the kind of thing that just makes you want to scream into the void. I did read about it last year Nuclear Leaks | The Guardian<p>An investigation into the UK’s Sellafield nuclear waste dump, examining the security and safety of one of the most

MSFT choose profit over security

Well. This is a long read but a bit 💥💣💥 Whistleblower Says Microsoft Dismissed Warnings About a Security Flaw That Russians Later Used to Hack U.S. GovernmentFormer employee says software giant dismissed his warnings about a critical flaw because it feared losing government business. Russian hackers later used the weakness

Hacker accesses Tile tool

Sigh Hacker Accesses Internal ‘Tile’ Tool That Provides Location Data to CopsA hacker broke into systems used by Tile, the tracking company, then stole a wealth of customer data and had access to internal company tools.404 MediaJoseph Cox “The hacker says they obtained login credentials for a Tile system

Security Leaders

This was an interesting listen. I came to it from a European mindset, so had to be a little bit more open minded. Joe Sullivan was the Uber CSO convicted of covering up a breach Former Uber CSO convicted for concealing 2016 data theftPassing off a ransom payment as a

Snowflake taking it seriously

June is going to be an interesting month. At the end of the week we saw two huge breaches. Ticketmaster and Santander. Over the weekend they are being linked to the Snowflake platform (Santander not confirmed). Snowflake have immediately engaged Mandiant and Crowdstrike to help investigate and a joint statement

Recall is still bad

Interesting read on Microsoft’s Copilot+ Recall feature. I think I would turn this off in Corporate builds if they insist on releasing it. Recall: Stealing everything you’ve ever typed or viewed on your own Windows PC is now possible.Photographic memory comes to Windows, and is the biggest

Appoint an unqualified CISO?

There’s potentially a controversial discussion here. I don’t know this Senator. I remember from the TikTok hearings I don’t actually trust too many Senators. Some seem a bit mad. Senator lambasts UnitedHealth for picking ‘unqualified’ CISOSimilar cases have resulted in serious sanctions, and they were on a

Ticketmaster breached

Half a billion users? Eesh. If confirmed that’s near enough top 10 for biggest data breaches. Ticketmaster hacked. Breach affects more than half a billion users.Emails, phone numbers, addresses, and even financial details have allegedly been exposed by a notorious hacker group.MashableMatt Binder It’s only potentially

Excellent response by British Library

This would have been a good talk to listen to at CyberUK. Roly Keating (CEO of the British Library) explaining how bringing transparency and a little emotional intelligence into their communication following a ransomware attack became very important. British Library on why it kept it real in ransomware commsIt quickly

United on Ransomware payments

Interesting. Cyber insurance industry unites to bear down on ransom paymentsJoint guidance from the NCSC with the Association of British Insurers (ABI), British Insurance Brokers’ Association (BIBA) and International Underwriting Association (IUA) aims to help organisations faced with ransomware demands minimise disruption and the cost of an incident. The guidance