Cybersecurity & Information Security Professional

UK
Joined October 2008
David Whitelegg retweeted
Halifax and Revolut were among a string of UK businesses hit by a disruption to Google Cloud on Tuesday. ft.trib.al/lHjYB1O
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David Whitelegg retweeted
Sky News
@SkyNewsOct 20
BREAKING: Multiple online services are down or 'experiencing issues.' Google Cloud has reported "issues" in its western Europe region affecting dozens of websites, including; Revolut, Royal Mail and HSBC. Latest updates ➡️ trib.al/M16q5UZ 📺 Sky 501
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David Whitelegg retweeted
🔐Speed vs Control: Are We Moving Too Fast to Govern AI & Risk?🚀David Whitelegg, Deputy CISO, Compliance @ Compass Group 📖Read more: eu1.hubs.ly/H0ykClR0 📅Oct 8, 26 | London Stadium 🔹CIO: lnkd.in/e73NQAac 🔹CISO: lnkd.in/em-jnB9j #EDS #Xseries #CIOCISOXUK
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David Whitelegg retweeted
I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
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David Whitelegg retweeted
Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade. I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to.
Replying to @hilbertspaess
The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt. If anything, many executives and senior researchers will couch their phrasing in the press to sound sensible - but I hear the same people express fear privately. No other human activity poses this level of danger.
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David Whitelegg retweeted
OpenAI
@OpenAIMay 11
Introducing Daybreak: frontier AI for cyber defenders. Daybreak brings together the most capable OpenAI models, Codex, and our security partners to accelerate cyber defense and continuously secure software. A step toward a future where security teams can move at the speed defense demands.
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Replying to @claudeai
Great to see more focus on proactive, developer-centric security 👏 Anything that helps teams move from reactive scanning to targeted, fix-first workflows is a step in the right direction 🔐 Looking forward to seeing how this evolves and integrates into real-world SDLC and assurance models 🚀
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Claude
@claudeaiFeb 20
Introducing Claude Code Security, now in limited research preview. It scans codebases for vulnerabilities and suggests targeted software patches for human review, allowing teams to find and fix issues that traditional tools often miss. Learn more: anthropic.com/news/claude-co…
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David Whitelegg retweeted
#BREAKING Amazon Web Services (#AWS) infrastructure has gone down, taking thousands of businesses offline. From Amazon Prime, to Canva and McDonald's.
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David Whitelegg retweeted
Elon Musk
@elonmusk10 Mar 2025
There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against 𝕏. We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources. Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved. Tracing …
First, protests against DOGE. Then, Tesla stores were attacked. Now, 𝕏 is down. I wouldn’t rule out the possibility that this downtime is the result of an attack on 𝕏.
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David Whitelegg retweeted
Sky News
@SkyNews28 Feb 2025
BREAKING: Payday chaos as major banks confirm issues with apps and online banking ⬇️ news.sky.com/story/money-new…
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David Whitelegg retweeted
Today was not a security or cyber incident. Our customers remain fully protected. We understand the gravity of the situation and are deeply sorry for the inconvenience and disruption. We are working with all impacted customers to ensure that systems are back up and they can deliver the services their customers are counting on. As noted earlier, the issue has been identified and a fix has been deployed. There was an issue with a Falcon content update for Windows Hosts. For the latest information that we will continuously update, please refer to the CrowdStrike website (crowdstrike.com/blog/stateme…), my posts on LinkedIn, and my posts on X.  I will continue to provide updates to our community and the industry as they become available.
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David Whitelegg retweeted
CrowdStrike is actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts. Mac and Linux hosts are not impacted. This is not a security incident or cyberattack. The issue has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed. We refer customers to the support portal for the latest updates and will continue to provide complete and continuous updates on our website. We further recommend organizations ensure they’re communicating with CrowdStrike representatives through official channels. Our team is fully mobilized to ensure the security and stability of CrowdStrike customers.
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Replying to @KonstantHacker
Superb presentation @KonstantHacker, for me (in this universe anyway) the key highlight of #isfworld congress 2023
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The hackers who took down MGM Resorts' computer networks are asking for a large ransom, according to an insider. – at Paradise, NV
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Is Las Vegas under cyber attack? How and why is this happening? Massive Las Vegas cyber attack at all MGM resorts. People cannot get into their rooms with the mobile keys. Financial transactions are not working. Imagine if that happened to a central backed digital currency in the future 🚨🚨🚨
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David Whitelegg retweeted
WARNING. THIS IS A SCAM BY CRIMINALS TRYING TO STEAL MONEY. PLS SHARE. This is frightening, it's the first deep fake video scam I've seen with me in it. Govt & regulators must step up to stop big tech publishing such dangerous fakes. People'll lose money and it'll ruin lives.
Replying to @MartinSLewis
@MartinSLewis assuming this is a scam.. getting more convincing with the use of AI
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David Whitelegg retweeted
1/ In 2021, we shared next-gen language + conversation capabilities powered by our Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA). Coming soon: Bard, a new experimental conversational #GoogleAI service powered by LaMDA. blog.google/technology/ai/ba…
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