Freelance Security & Privacy Journalist. Bylines: @guardian @WIRED @InfosecurityMag @ITPro @Assured_Intel @Forbes. [email protected]

London, England
Joined April 2009
Despite never entering a national lockdown, Taiwan has remained nearly virus-free. I spoke to @audreyt about how the country did it for @WiredUK wired.co.uk/article/taiwan-c…
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I went to see the Social Reckoning yesterday and all I can say is please don’t let Aaron Sorkin make a movie about the AI company CEOs. Honestly, please.
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I am *obsessed* with Jeremy Strong’s hair
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Also the scene where Zuckerberg is being trained to speak in front of lawmakers is ridiculous and hilarious - “you have to stop referring to people as humans and users Mark.” 😂
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It sounds like they were a cluster fuck (haha sorry I’m way more blunt than Dave) I obviously can’t be sure but having a model cause ur IR to go wonky is a really bad red Flag. 🚩 Dave’s point about ensuring you have appropriate resources, Planning, skills and tools is 100 percent! 🫶🫡🤓🛡️🛡️🛡️
Good lessons learned here - have access to daybreak blue or others as a precaution and also have your own open weight infrastructure to handle. Secondly - if doing good cyber security practices - shouldn’t need models to battle models, although time wise - incorporating them into what you do via response is much faster than manual approaches Not saying they don’t have good security controls - have no idea - but lots of this is alleviated by doing these types of preps in advance versus after or during.
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Kate O'Flaherty retweeted
For #CyberSecurityAwarenessMonth, we've released a special two-part edition of #PhishingForTrouble with #Cybersecurity journalist @KateOflaherty. Join us as we look back at what really mattered for businesses in 2026: open.spotify.com/episode/7Gp…
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See this dude gets it! how come so many cyber grifters don't??? oh wait..... the first part... grifters! that's the reason!
Ben Affleck says AI is simply matrix multiplication, linear algebra and floating point calculations, and however convincingly it sounds like a person, it has nothing to do with thought, humanity or feeling “Nor do I believe, and I think it’s important to draw the distinction between what AI does, which is simply predict the next token or the next word in a sentence, then add that word on, run it back to the machine, do a lot of computation and pick the next word." "That is a very different thing than sentience or thought. And I think we need to be really clear about that because it can be convincingly, in an illusory way, sound like thought or like a person." "But let’s be real clear. This is matrix multiplication. This is linear algebra. These are floating point calculations. It has nothing to do with thought, humanity, or feeling.”
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Sunday cinema day 🥰🐕‍🦺🐕 Off to see the social reckoning - wish us luck
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What in the regulatory capture are we doing here
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The OpenAI employee who allegedly stole over a hundred confidential documents without OpenAI noticing for months sent the documents to his number *in mainland China*...
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In August, the ICO reprimanded ACRO after a series of 2021-2023 attacks led to the exposure of 10,000 people’s sensitive details. @KateOflaherty discusses the role of ownership and accountability in #PatchManagement: isms.online/business-resilie… #VulnerabilityManagement
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Just swop out ‘rogue agent’ for employee
OpenAI just revealed that an employee stole over a hundred highly confidential files months ago, and they didn't notice until now. They only found it while looking for evidence in the Apple lawsuit. Not a good look for insider threat detection.
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He vibe-coded the bug. Genius.
We discovered a sophisticated recording device that was hidden inside one of our offices. We used our models to understand the device and where it had come from, identifying that a specific employee had planted it a few days earlier. We referred the matter to the FBI, and we’re grateful to the agents and prosecutors who moved quickly to make an arrest. The FBI’s investigation is ongoing and we will continue to support their work. At this time, we have no indications of this individual inappropriately accessing or exfiltrating model weights, source code, or customer data. The employee was terminated. We take protecting our technology, data, and people seriously, and as a matter of national importance. Our security program is designed to protect against a wide range of threat actors, from insider risks to cybercriminals to nation states, and this case is an example of how AI can help address these sophisticated security threats.
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Preparing for the next red team engagement! 😜😂
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“We used our models to understand the device”
We discovered a sophisticated recording device that was hidden inside one of our offices. We used our models to understand the device and where it had come from, identifying that a specific employee had planted it a few days earlier. We referred the matter to the FBI, and we’re grateful to the agents and prosecutors who moved quickly to make an arrest. The FBI’s investigation is ongoing and we will continue to support their work. At this time, we have no indications of this individual inappropriately accessing or exfiltrating model weights, source code, or customer data. The employee was terminated. We take protecting our technology, data, and people seriously, and as a matter of national importance. Our security program is designed to protect against a wide range of threat actors, from insider risks to cybercriminals to nation states, and this case is an example of how AI can help address these sophisticated security threats.
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The plot thickens
Justice Department announces that a Saudi national has been arrested for planting the listening device in OpenAI's office. "Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, a national of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, was arrested on Oct. 9" justice.gov/opa/pr/saudi-nat…
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Kate O'Flaherty retweeted
The recording device just escaped its sandbox
We discovered a sophisticated recording device that was hidden inside one of our offices. We used our models to understand the device and where it had come from, identifying that a specific employee had planted it a few days earlier. We referred the matter to the FBI, and we’re grateful to the agents and prosecutors who moved quickly to make an arrest. The FBI’s investigation is ongoing and we will continue to support their work. At this time, we have no indications of this individual inappropriately accessing or exfiltrating model weights, source code, or customer data. The employee was terminated. We take protecting our technology, data, and people seriously, and as a matter of national importance. Our security program is designed to protect against a wide range of threat actors, from insider risks to cybercriminals to nation states, and this case is an example of how AI can help address these sophisticated security threats.
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Covering AI recently has shown that it’s very difficult to work out the facts, when established “experts” are operating on belief. It’s all the more important to verify, ask more than one person, ask for reports/stats.
the world seems to be full of people who don't know how things work, telling people that do know... that they are wrong.... it's fucking odd... and then some journalists say: these random people, they say this, so it must be true. it's a bit fucking ridiculous to be honest.
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