New: WhatsApp unveils a higher security offering, becoming the latest tech firm to provide users with opt-in stronger protections against hackers
www.reuters.com/business/med...
How is this legal?
Looking for book, blog or article recommendations on the morals & ethics of offensive cyber particularly in the context of Private Sector Offensive Actors (PSOAs)
Looking for book, blog or article recommendations on the morals & ethics of offensive cyber particularly in the context of Private Sector Offensive Actors (PSOAs)
Apropos the UK Strategic Defence Review (SDR) being released today, reminded of Lin Wells April 2001 memo on defence forecasting
library.rumsfeld.com/doclib/sp/23...
Genuinely impressive how consistently inconsistent Scotrail is
US judge finds Israel's NSO Group liable for hacking in WhatsApp lawsuit
www.reuters.com/technology/c...
I don’t know who needs to hear it but
defaults write com.google.Chrome URLBlocklist -array-add example.com
works system-wide without giving access to all your browsing to some extension.
Quote this and share one of your favourite poems
The early morning train from Kyiv.
West coast mainline to London and about 70% of the time you dini have the signal to even connect to WhatsApp, how is UK infrastructure still so bad
Just a reminder, as you look outside and notice it's already getting dark 😱, that today is the earliest sunset of the year (15:51 in London). From tomorrow the sunsets slowwwwly start getting later again. (Sunrises don't start getting earlier until Dec 30th hence solstice on 21st.) YOU ARE WELCOME.
Absolutely shocking lack of bins in London
Crazy that Austin Tice is reportedly alive after 12 years captive in Syria
One of the things I’ve no seen discussed about Pete Hegseth’s nomination, aside from everything else, is how grotesque it is for him to accept the nomination knowing how unqualified he is to be SECDEF
Did you know that you’re not required to give tech billionaires permanent access to your data? Claw back your data from big tech, starting with X. Start deleting all your tweets today for free cyd.social/delete-all-y...
It should be spelled CiA because I spy with my little i.
Absolute throwback to see @minalami.bsky.social on prime time BBC News talking about Syria
If you are in the Edinburgh area and want to see a #cybersecurity talk, come and see my talk at the local Defcon chapter on "Konarr: A Story of Building a Software Composition Analysis Platform".
Its on the tool Konarr I built and open sourced.
github.com/42ByteLabs/k...
I’m fucking sick of hearing about NordVPN every fucking time I consume content online
"Crosland [had] already been in the service for more than 20 years...he had formally retired as Director of Personnel and Administration..., only to be rehired... to move the service ... to a high-profile building on the southern bank of the Thames".
www.thetimes.com/uk/obituarie...
A hypothesis I've been toying with is that privately organized active measures - aimed at winning elections, eliminating business rivals, swinging lawsuits, etc - are far more common than is popularly understood.
Are you coming to London? If so, how can I attend?
In case you are shunning the birdsite, you need to watch this video of Meredith Whitaker of @signal.bsky.social dissecting the online safety bill in front of one of its MP adherents:
https://www.channel4.com/news/online-safety-bill-debate-could-it-lead-to-unprecedented-paradigm-shifting-surveillance
