Security stuff, leadership comments and sarcasm gleaned from well over 20 years of working in InfoSec. No, nothing really surprises me anymore.

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The price of security is the tax we pay on previous decades failures in education and social and legal justice.
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As anyone who works with data centres knows, they'll have an alternative site that they will have switched services to. The issue with losing a site is that services will be more fragile and, possibly, the performance will be constrained. The next hit could take them offline.
Ukraine struck fourth Russian data centerπŸ‘‡πŸ‘‡πŸ‘‡
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So lots of people are wondering what the angle is with the free Dell "Trump Accounts". It seems to me that they're a form of liquidity for the US as the bond market is wrecked. In other words a way of getting the American people to pay for the current administrations
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By offering these accounts and encouraging people to pay extra in to them, it's a way of getting hold of cash quickly, whicb can be borrowed cheaply by the government in the short term. It's not illegal, but quite a grift, and it's not certain that the accounts will be paid.
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And, just in case anyone wants a comparison, the UK government brought in the Child Trust Fund scheme in 2005. Feel free to Google it to find out why it was discontinued in 2011! TL;DR it wasn't a huge success.
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Also, the last time I looked at Snowflake DB for a banking client, there were sufficient questions around their security model to rule it out. #justsayin
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I wonder if there is any connection between today's events at Asos and them recently recruiting a number of senior positions including a new DPO and CISO? I know a few people who applied and were ghosted by their HR department.
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If no publication has used the headline "Hackers upset Snowflake" the journalism is officially dead in the UK. BBC News - bbc.co.uk/news/live/cjkg7205… Asos says customers' personal information 'may have been accessed' after message from apparent hackers - BBC News
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Explosives trained security professionals watching the public comment on the RAF Fairford incident.
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The limitations (and dangers) of LLMs explained far more eloquently than I ever could.
Can YOU see it? This is why you shouldn't trust generative AI, in one photo. Watch, share, and tell your friends how far into the video you were when you saw it!
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Remember kids - If an AI agent has hacked your system it's because it hasn't been able to fend off a basic attack which has already been published on the Internet.
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Remember kids, "cyber attacks" = companies not investing enough money to properly protect their systems because they know that they're not going to get prosecuted for it.
BREAKING: UK government urges citizens to stockpile food and water, planning for the possibility of war and cyberattacks.
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Cheddar cheese, made in Cheddar with milk from cows which grazed around Cheddar and matured in a cave in Cheddar. It doesn't get much better than this.
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