Award-winning cybersecurity keynote speaker, writer, podcaster | Co-host of "Smashing Security" podcast
@SmashinSecurity
and "The AI Fix" podcast
@TheAIFix
"Good Morning Britain" asked me to speak about the WhatsApp security issue this morning. I declined. After all, they have their own phone hacking expert...
Wuh?
Donald Trump's Twitter account got hacked *again*???
Password was "maga2020!" and no 2FA claims report from hackers who previously discovered his password was "yourefired".
Journalists - rather than wait to receive a data breach notification from a company just set up a Google alert for the words "we take security very seriously" and find out immediately.
I think the bigger story is not so much that Health Secretary Matt Hancock has been caught having an extramarital snog, but rather that the Murdoch press has managed to gain access to security CCTV footage from inside the UK Government.
If you're wondering why
@Cloudflare
wrote this blog post, it's due to criticism it won't dump its far-right client Kiwifarms, which doxxes and harrasses members of the LGBTQ community.
Cloudflare is too chickenshit to mention Kiwifarms in its blog post though.
#dropkiwifarms
Cloudflare launched nearly twelve years ago. Over that time, our set of services has become much more complicated. With that complexity we have developed policies around how we handle abuse of different features Cloudflare provides
A truly world-shaking
#AppleEvent
last night, where the tech giant announced its revolutionary invention of function keys and ports that are actually built into a laptop rather than dangling off a dongle.
Bravo!
Back at work after the holidays? Struggling to remember your password?
Here are some likely ones to start with:
💠 123456
💠 123456789
💠 qwerty
💠 password
💠 1234567
💠 12345678
💠 12345
💠 iloveyou
💠 111111
Hope that helps.
After six years of working for myself and hiding out in the cramped family study at home, I've got an office of my own at the bottom of the garden.
#GCHQ
In gross privacy breach, someone leaned over Mark Zuckerberg's shoulder and photographed his notes.
He didn't give them permission, but maybe one of his friends did.
Following a legal threat from ███████ ████ I have removed their name from this article on my site:
I hope readers will accept my apologies for what is clearly unsatisfactory, but I can ill-afford to get embroiled in a legal fight.
Kicking up a stink about Amazon's failure to deliver a £700 iPhone to me (and then refusing to refund/replace) has - I'm delighted to say - resulted in the money being returned to me today. 🥳
What I've learnt:
★ Exploiting social media and video to complain can get the
Great news!
@AmazonUK
has got back to me about the £700 iPhone they failed to deliver (and wouldn't refund or replace)
Bad news, what they told me... 😞 Watch my video
Based on this experience, why would anyone buy anything expensive from Amazon ever again?
RT if you agree.
Years ago, when someone impersonated me on Facebook, and made paedophile comments, and incited others into threatening to shoot my wife and burn my house down, Facebook did nothing.
...until I pointed out that use of my photo was copyright infringement.
Then Facebook acted.
Can it really be 23 years ago today that the world witnessed the spread of the
#AnnaKournikova
worm?
With an alluring promise of snaps of the tennis star, the worm infected computers with an email-aware worm.
Here are my memories of it from when I worked at Sophos... 1/13
Don’t buy the Facebook Portal TV.
It “just isn't suited for anyone because of the privacy concerns and increasingly alarming issues plaguing the social networking site.”
Extraordinary review by CNET.
I've been told that
@guardian
has suffered a "serious IT incident" which is affecting access to all its offices.
Staff are being told to work from home, and not to use VPN to log in to any systems... :(
Wishing the Guardian IT team well, especially at this time of year.
I've some sad news to share I'm afraid.
Alan Solomon passed away last night, after a brave struggle against cancer. He was, of course, one of the pioneers of the anti-virus industry - a larger-than-life character with a brilliant mind and a great sense of fun.
I remember my
NY Times reporting that Facebook security chief Alex Stamos is to leave after clashes over disinformation I can't see how this would be a good thing for Facebook or Facebook's users.
We’re aware that some people are experiencing issues with WhatsApp at the moment. We’re working to get things back to normal and will send an update here as soon as possible.
Thanks for your patience!
In case, CISA's Rumour Control webpage (a US govt website) - which debunks disinformation about the US election - should ever mysteriously disappear, here's a screenshot of the whole darn thing.
You're welcome.
#Protect2020
This may be the most absurd cybersecurity story I've ever told in a keynote. The company that PRETENDED to have been hit by a virus.
And when you hear what the company is, and what they said the virus did, the story even gets more bizarre.
Have you ever heard a more odd story
Rex Tillerson yesterday (on the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal in UK): "We are outraged that Russia appears to have again engaged in such behavior."
Rex Tillerson today: Fired.
Hey Elon. Is there any way I can get the blue-tick removed from my account?
I’m terrified people might think I’ve paid for it. Would be so embarrassing.
Thanks