good luck !!
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good luck !!
I am surprised that Google is still struggling with malware and phishing links being sent via Google drive. I get a file shared with me about once a week which I presume is either malware or some kind of lure
‘NotDoor’ malware tied to Russia's APT28 exploits Microsoft Outlook m.cje.io/3Ibo0iT
This year's #IRISSCON promises to be yet another great event. I am looking forward to it already
If you're thinking about swapping the car, bus, or whatever for two wheels, it can be difficult to know what's worth splashing the cash on and what you can actually just do without...
i suspect we are going to see a whole lot more of this when CRA and NIS2 reporting requirements come in www.theregister.com/2025/09/08/w... i really think that the time is now for one of the big professional orgs like isc2 to offer legal advice to members
On my hobby horse on the today programme at 1hr18 saying that in the light of the jaguar Land Rover cyber attack we need to stop obsessing about what are sometimes relatively trivial personal datasets when hackers are shutting down factories www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Jeremy Clarkson's Cotswolds pub has been targeted in a #CyberAttack, with hackers stealing £27,000. A stark reminder that no one is safe from #CyberCrime. #CyberSecurity
Al Jazeera has done a lot of great reporting on these scam centres (more like forced labour camps), here's one of their most recent videos www.aljazeera.com/video/true-c...
I thought the car manual was only to be read whilst waiting in a carpark for someone to hurry up :)
App based parking is great till there is no mobile data coverage
Led By Donkeys have got Fartrage's number.
The important news from the cabinet reshuffle:
the password also contained ( and i kid you not) the characters , | . the way that the | was printed i had to guess if it was a 1, an I an i a | a J or a j FFS
oh i had to factory reset it as the PW didnt work :)
www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/m... interesting study that really mirrors my own real world observations. The tooling is on the cusp of being amazing but it is not there yet. Great for rewriting emails in different styles but you can't use it to generate documents or presentations
Early starts mean darkness - nice relaxed run before breakfast
I was thinking that, but I might just leave it as it is as it's really for my parents. I was quite impressed it comes with two lan ports. It seems that you can use one as a wan or both as different lans and even has guest network
Aah eBay and an unlocked Vodafone access point for £75 for the win! Quite impressed with the features on the Vodafone router to be honest
www.ft.com/content/ee1a... hacked called Rey affiliated with Hellcat claims responsibility for JLR hack
great thread on the issues re ID cards
And this is the crunch - drone deliveries only work if you have a traffic management system or they have exclusive use of the air www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
Congressman Jamie Raskin hands Nigel Farage his a*** on a plate Anyone in the UK care to plagiarize?
Timeline cleanse
Microsoft to French Senate: - If US makes a "correct" requests, Microsoft must share EU data - EU clients may not be informed of the disclosure, data sharing => Any US company under Patriot Act and Cloud Act, must cooperate www.frandroid.com/culture-tech...
Salesloft hack impact, so far: -Zscaler -Palo Alto Networks -SpyCloud -Tanium -PagerDuty www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/09/02/z...
www.reuters.com/business/aut... jaguar land rover hacked - hope it's not the wider Tata group. Wonder if it's just retail or the whole org ?
Zscaler becomes first company to admit breach via the Salesloft sales agent integration www.zscaler.com/blogs/compan...
actually i just spotted that there are ebay stores selling unlocked provider ones for £100 - i think i will give it a punt
indeed not - just need 5g <-> wifi interface sadly my normal provider of mobile telephony giffgaff doesnt do one hence i was going to buy one and put a giffgaff sim in ( so i can manage all the costs in one place)
indeed - you can have security logs but you have to pay through the nose for it ! its not just Microsoft
I do get very frustrated when the certain cloud providers make basic security settings and logging an additional cost. And sometimes that additional cost is significant. Sadly voting with your feet is sometimes not possible and so the risk was just be accepted
I was thinking this morning, I'm surprised that the EU doesn't come up with legislation to force cloud providers to make things like mfa mandatory as well as exposing security logs for free via a standardized mechanism. This would really go a long way in improving the security of EU companies
Thank you - they only seem to have 2 5g models which are both at the top of the price range. Looking for something that I can leave at my parents house as a backup in case the new BT digital line goes down again
Supply-chain attack hits Zscaler via Salesloft Drift, leaking customer info
Does anyone have a recommendation for a 5g router for the UK ? To be used as a backup network for a home. They seem to vary from £49-£200 anyone recommend anything ?
3 race, trail and road. Replace shoes at 700k ( not replaced my race shoes yet) mainly wear road
I used to teach. Every year, when we received our new registers of year 7 kids, a few colleagues and I would try to guess who would be the worst behaved in each class based solely on first name. I'd say our success rate was somewhere between 80% and 90%.
Morning all !
Short shorts are great for running in in the summer :)
A small run this morning to check that the legs work before the Berlin marathon in a few weeks time :)
Indeed that's what brought it to my attention although I don't believe we yet know what caused that spike
Vance, Wetherspoons, Sports... I think we should lock up all the JDs, until we figure out what's going on.
pizzint.watch a website I didn't know existed till now. Monitoring the pizza places around the pentagon - when they are ordering loads out of office hours - someone is about to have a bad day (or is already having one)
Things I saw on my morning run
Oh and I forgot my youngest had a separate one for booking after school clubs as well
Aah but don't you need 1 app to pay their lunches, an app to receive school news, an app to book school trips and a separate app to get the end of year reports ? And if your kids go to different schools each school has a unique app ecosystem
Major Update: We now believe this incident impacts other Salesloft Drift integrations, not just Salesforce. We’re advising Salesloft Drift customers to treat any and all authentication tokens stored in or connected to the Drift platform as potentially compromised.
steam now needs age verification for "mature games" ... the online safety act is getting stupid - my steam account is 25 years old help.steampowered.com/fr/faqs/view... thankfully its just a credit card and none of that face / driving license stupidity
Join me for an exclusive interview with Timur Yunusov, one of the organizers of the DEF CON Payment Village. Timur shares gladly his insights and experiences in this field. youtu.be/-YJca2whyFo
UPDATE: In a separate notice just filed with Texas' attorney general, TransUnion says the personal information stolen in its data breach includes customers' names, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers. My updated story:
regarding naming of threat actors - can we have it like the presidency of the EU ? one year Crowdstrike gets to name the TA's the next year Microsoft etc etc but whomever names the TA 1st gets to name them. It will be less confusing than currently.... anything to solve the mess we currently have
. @ciaranm.bsky.social mentioned in this The Times piece about telecom hacks. He's absolutely on the money. A large part of the problem with UK telcos is attackers knowing SNMP strings (and default ones). SNMPv2 from 1995, btw. Then using it to redirect traffic.
Err this isn't great for sleep. Currently wide awake when I need to be asleep. Anyway new half marathon pb tonight which was naughty as I need to start tapering soon for Berlin
ha ha - you heard / saw it as well :)
i was listening to an audio book of the Iranian embassy siege the other day and they described CR gas as a nerve agent....
i used to have that when i lived in NL - it was amazing, you could arrive 20 mins before flight departure and still make it. I think its just holiday traffic so it should be back to normal next week
well if you could adopt me and then i could get Irish :)
if i could get an EU passport i would.... biggest mistake the UK has made ( and we have made loads)
The non EU passport queue at Schiphol arrivals is epic again I see
For a party that has four members of parliament reform certainly gets a lot of airtime and publicity. The green party also has four apparently... (Yes I had to look that up) I haven't seen them on the front page of the BBC in a very long time
I ordered some things from decathlon on bank holiday Monday. Didn't pay extra for shipping as I didn't need them particularly quickly. They just arrived. I think they took just under 24 hours from order to arrival. That's a slick e-commerce operation
Beautiful Morning !
It will be interesting to see what the cyber resilience act or other similar legislation makes of these kind of attacks. Manufacturers may not be able to sit on the sidelines as they have currently being doing - this isn't a relay this is guessing the next unlock code due to poor software design
People have spread misguided hype about the Flipper Zero and car hacking for a while. But now it's happening. I spoke to Daniel, a person selling these custom patches to unlock cars. He provided his PDF of vulnerable vehicles; another outlet tested it and it worked www.404media.co/inside-the-u...
New: inside the underground trade of Flipper Zero tech to steal cars. Right now it's $$$, but people are cracking software to make it free. When this gets out, it will supercharge car thefts. So many modern cars vulnerable. "Kia Boys will be Flipper Boys by 2026" www.404media.co/inside-the-u...
By the way in terms of genuine recovery products I've been using chocolate milk recently. Apparently it's better than all of the weird and wonderful potions and I love the taste of it.
Had a weird advert on YouTube today, it claimed to be showing a market in Gaza loaded with food with the message that the food crisis was a lie. I was watching on my TV so I couldn't see who produced it but there was no URL or message at the end as to who created it. Very weird propaganda on YouTube
One of these fungi is not like the others....
Remember that trail runs count for at least two times tarmac runs! You could fully justify an extra flake
Can I have a "good news blue sky" feed - something to make me feel good about the day before all the news stories from the horrors around the world
Each day we stray further from the light of God www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Decent sports massage is the most pain you can legally pay another human to inflict on you ! Hope it works for you
Personally whatever you can cycle in an hour is about right and after a week or 2 your body will adapt
Wow I need to go cycling with you... The best my friends get is a gpx file emailed the night before your drawing is quality. Needs to be viewed spread on the bonnet of a landrover with a mug of tea on the wing for best effect I feel :)
Ran the Basingstoke parkrun today - genuinely friendly parkrun. Course wasn't as confusing in reality as I thought it would be and was a nice mix of tarmac and grass. Also plus points for having semi decent toilets open before the run started :) (that this is a priority shows I am getting old)
I am no Dr but it seems you need a sports massage from a physio. If it's what happend to me the massage is intensely painful but it worked
Kidney dialysis giant DaVita tells 2.4M people they were snared in ransomware data theft nightmare
Sports massage where they do a glute release (think that's what it's called) - the person puts their elbow in the side of your backside and leans their full weight on it - hurts like hell but sorts out things like that
Some #parkrun directions are akin to "drive down the b666 untill you find a white cat called John, turn left if there is an r in the month. Drive widdershins for 3 perches and then park by the light of a silvery moon"
Some #parkrun directions are akin to "drive down the b666 untill you find a white cat called John, turn left if there is an r in the month. Drive widdershins for 3 perches and then park by the light of a silvery moon"
Really recommend robens - not cheap but good quality. The Chinook Ursa with a tarp is perfect as well
Some cybersecurity news outlets were duped a few days ago by a claim that Europol was offering a $50,000 bounty for information about two members of the Qilin ransomware group. Turns out it was all a hoax. Read more in my article on the Bitdefender blog: www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/h...
www.singletracks.com/mtb-gear/ns-... interesting that an invoice fraud attack contributed to the bankruptcy of a polish mountain bike brand - it's not a victimless crime
Tenting !
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... ofcom v's 4chan I can't see that ofcom can win this - the best they can hope for is ordering that 4chan is blocked a la pirate bay. Perhaps this is the long term plan to censor the UK internet ?
Apache gunships overhead! Either at carfest or the middle east
A 20-year-old Florida man at the center of a prolific cybercrime group known as “Scattered Spider” was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison today, and ordered to pay roughly $13 million in restitution to victims. Noah Michael Urban of Palm Coast, Fla […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]
ABSOLUTELY! i have never heard of people needing to lose weight before they can exercise. as you say - if you can move you can participate. If you run walk 1 km you did more than those who didnt do anything !
NEW: There's a new startup in Dubai that is offering up to $20 million for zero-days to break into any smartphone ($15 for only iOS and only Android). Company won't say who runs it, who funds it, who they sell to, and whether they have any legal or ethical restrictions on who they sell to.
For comparison, Microsoft Office 365 has 345m paid subscribers worldwide. The idea that ChatGPT will conjure up five times that amount in just a few years isn't just hypothetical, it's fantasy. These people are delusional.
finally a smart feature i want !
Me: they have made appliances way too complicated and ridiculous not everything needs access to the internet… But also:
there is an AI boom, when do you think there will be the AI bust? 2027 ish? when companies realize that it isnt going to radically change the world but that AI will change the world in more subtle ways. We tend to over estimate the pace of change in the short term and underestimate in the long term
Now they can focus on banning vpns
I will certainly take that! Nice fast pacy run this morning
