Ciaran Martin
@ciaranm.bsky.social
“Cyber Security Ace” - Daily Star
In reality:
* Prof at Blavatnik School, Uni of Oxford
* 1st head, UK National Cyber Security Centre
* ex-Treasury, constitution & security official
* adviser to cyber security companies
* APT Name: Warlike Manatee
In reality:
* Prof at Blavatnik School, Uni of Oxford
* 1st head, UK National Cyber Security Centre
* ex-Treasury, constitution & security official
* adviser to cyber security companies
* APT Name: Warlike Manatee
Referee Matthew Carley is competing with Oliver Cromwell for popularity of decision taking in Ireland 🏉☘️
November 22, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Referee Matthew Carley is competing with Oliver Cromwell for popularity of decision taking in Ireland 🏉☘️
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And this morning's musings on the slate connect an international collaboration for cyber security talent, the #CyberResilenceBill (@ciaranm.bsky.social), knowability ('Taxonomy-based Risk Identification') and Blake's Seven... 🙈
@qi.com Definitely a thing! My wife bought me a diver's slate for those moments of inspiration in the shower...all sorts of problems have had their solutions outlined without me getting into a lather trying to remember them when dry... 🙈
November 19, 2025 at 7:19 AM
And this morning's musings on the slate connect an international collaboration for cyber security talent, the #CyberResilenceBill (@ciaranm.bsky.social), knowability ('Taxonomy-based Risk Identification') and Blake's Seven... 🙈
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Can Scotland and Ireland stop being so nail bitingly exciting please!
Anyway, great stuff by our hairier cousins and if we make it to the finals as well it will be an amazing summer :)
Anyway, great stuff by our hairier cousins and if we make it to the finals as well it will be an amazing summer :)
November 18, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Can Scotland and Ireland stop being so nail bitingly exciting please!
Anyway, great stuff by our hairier cousins and if we make it to the finals as well it will be an amazing summer :)
Anyway, great stuff by our hairier cousins and if we make it to the finals as well it will be an amazing summer :)
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Dozens of groups call for governments to protect encryption cyberscoop.com/encryption-s... by @derekbjohnson.bsky.social
Dozens of groups call for governments to protect encryption
The letter comes as countries in Europe have moved over the past year to regulate or mandate legalized access for criminal and national security investigations.
cyberscoop.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Dozens of groups call for governments to protect encryption cyberscoop.com/encryption-s... by @derekbjohnson.bsky.social
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If you're wondering why a bunch of the internet seems vaguely borked this morning
November 18, 2025 at 1:09 PM
If you're wondering why a bunch of the internet seems vaguely borked this morning
Twenty years to the day since Roy Keane left Man Utd means it’s also 20 years to the day since the greatest moment in the history of Irish television 1/2
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Prep...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Prep...
Eamonn Dunphy rant
YouTube video by Piaras Kelly
m.youtube.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Twenty years to the day since Roy Keane left Man Utd means it’s also 20 years to the day since the greatest moment in the history of Irish television 1/2
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Prep...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Prep...
Thanks to BBC Sport for commemorating one of the most traumatic days of the 21st century
www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
November 18, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Thanks to BBC Sport for commemorating one of the most traumatic days of the 21st century
www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
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Troy story 3
📸 Attila Kisbedenek
📸 Attila Kisbedenek
November 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Troy story 3
📸 Attila Kisbedenek
📸 Attila Kisbedenek
Proper football is back
Punt it into the box
Flick on
Stab it home
Go to the World Cup (almost)
None of this horseshoe tikitaka 💩
Jack Charlton is smiling down from above on this Irish side 😀☘️
www.sportsnet.ca/soccer/video...
Punt it into the box
Flick on
Stab it home
Go to the World Cup (almost)
None of this horseshoe tikitaka 💩
Jack Charlton is smiling down from above on this Irish side 😀☘️
www.sportsnet.ca/soccer/video...
Ireland’s Parrott completes hat-trick to beat Hungary in added time
www.sportsnet.ca
November 16, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Proper football is back
Punt it into the box
Flick on
Stab it home
Go to the World Cup (almost)
None of this horseshoe tikitaka 💩
Jack Charlton is smiling down from above on this Irish side 😀☘️
www.sportsnet.ca/soccer/video...
Punt it into the box
Flick on
Stab it home
Go to the World Cup (almost)
None of this horseshoe tikitaka 💩
Jack Charlton is smiling down from above on this Irish side 😀☘️
www.sportsnet.ca/soccer/video...
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There's a certain type of politician that needs to believe themselves to be too moral to get involved in the dirtiness of politics and gets caught in the cognitive dissonance of hiring other people to do it for them.
Gordon Brown was like that with Ed Balls and Damian McBride.
Gordon Brown was like that with Ed Balls and Damian McBride.
November 13, 2025 at 1:09 PM
There's a certain type of politician that needs to believe themselves to be too moral to get involved in the dirtiness of politics and gets caught in the cognitive dissonance of hiring other people to do it for them.
Gordon Brown was like that with Ed Balls and Damian McBride.
Gordon Brown was like that with Ed Balls and Damian McBride.
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what's even worse is if you know how that cyber attack(tm) went down. Put it this way, the person doing it didn't even know what they were doing.
Extraordinary day and historic for the wrong reasons - a cyber attack featured in the GDP figures
November 13, 2025 at 12:21 PM
what's even worse is if you know how that cyber attack(tm) went down. Put it this way, the person doing it didn't even know what they were doing.
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I often think about how one of my first stories for ZDNet back in 2016 was about a ransomware attack against a County Council with a ransom demand of £500.
Almost a decade later and the financial - and real world - impact of ransomware has just got much worse.
Almost a decade later and the financial - and real world - impact of ransomware has just got much worse.
Extraordinary day and historic for the wrong reasons - a cyber attack featured in the GDP figures
November 13, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I often think about how one of my first stories for ZDNet back in 2016 was about a ransomware attack against a County Council with a ransom demand of £500.
Almost a decade later and the financial - and real world - impact of ransomware has just got much worse.
Almost a decade later and the financial - and real world - impact of ransomware has just got much worse.
Extraordinary day and historic for the wrong reasons - a cyber attack featured in the GDP figures
November 13, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Extraordinary day and historic for the wrong reasons - a cyber attack featured in the GDP figures
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The hack against Jaguar Land Rover has proven to be the most economically devastating in British history, suggests Prof Ciaran Martin, quoted in @nbcnews.com👇
https://ow.ly/yZY650XqsoB
https://ow.ly/yZY650XqsoB
The hack on Jaguar Land Rover was so bad that it hurt the U.K.'s GDP, Bank of England says
The hack is estimated to have cost the company nearly $2.5 billion, and delayed manufacturing for weeks.
ow.ly
November 12, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The hack against Jaguar Land Rover has proven to be the most economically devastating in British history, suggests Prof Ciaran Martin, quoted in @nbcnews.com👇
https://ow.ly/yZY650XqsoB
https://ow.ly/yZY650XqsoB
On the 50th anniversary of the dismissal of Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, I am recommending this as the most jaw droppingly good political / historical podcast I’ve heard
Episode 2 will have anyone with an interest in intelligence hitting the floor
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Episode 2 will have anyone with an interest in intelligence hitting the floor
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
The Eleventh
History Podcast · The Eleventh is an explosive thriller teasing out everything you never knew about one of the most famous chapters of Australian political history — the dismissal of Prime Minister Go...
podcasts.apple.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:46 PM
On the 50th anniversary of the dismissal of Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, I am recommending this as the most jaw droppingly good political / historical podcast I’ve heard
Episode 2 will have anyone with an interest in intelligence hitting the floor
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Episode 2 will have anyone with an interest in intelligence hitting the floor
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
I’m a huge sceptic about killer robots but Copilot poses a different AI threat to human life - it can send the most placid, amiable person off into a murderous rage
November 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I’m a huge sceptic about killer robots but Copilot poses a different AI threat to human life - it can send the most placid, amiable person off into a murderous rage
Whatever else, this promises to be the funniest of all the AI start-ups: would be typical of Yann to call it bubble.ai
www.ft.com/content/c586...
www.ft.com/content/c586...
Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to exit and launch own start-up
Turing Award winner seeks to depart as Mark Zuckerberg makes ‘superintelligence’ push
www.ft.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Whatever else, this promises to be the funniest of all the AI start-ups: would be typical of Yann to call it bubble.ai
www.ft.com/content/c586...
www.ft.com/content/c586...
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For anyone in Oxford, I am speaking to the Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre (SST-CCW) at All Soul's today at 1.30pm, on the topic of how we can best make sense of US foreign & defence policy.
www.ccw.ox.ac.uk/events/2025/...
www.ccw.ox.ac.uk/events/2025/...
Reflections on American foreign and defence policy by Shashank Joshi — The Changing Character of War Centre
Tuesday 11 November, 13.30 Old Library, All Souls
www.ccw.ox.ac.uk
November 11, 2025 at 10:11 AM
For anyone in Oxford, I am speaking to the Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre (SST-CCW) at All Soul's today at 1.30pm, on the topic of how we can best make sense of US foreign & defence policy.
www.ccw.ox.ac.uk/events/2025/...
www.ccw.ox.ac.uk/events/2025/...
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That’s a lot.
67% of Germans say that “When in doubt, we can and should no longer rely on military assistance from the US.”
Study: www.moreincommon.de/wp-content/u...
67% of Germans say that “When in doubt, we can and should no longer rely on military assistance from the US.”
Study: www.moreincommon.de/wp-content/u...
November 11, 2025 at 6:39 AM
That’s a lot.
67% of Germans say that “When in doubt, we can and should no longer rely on military assistance from the US.”
Study: www.moreincommon.de/wp-content/u...
67% of Germans say that “When in doubt, we can and should no longer rely on military assistance from the US.”
Study: www.moreincommon.de/wp-content/u...
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I have two missions in life:
- securing world peace
- dissuading people from organising a "quick preparatory call ahead of next week's panel".
- securing world peace
- dissuading people from organising a "quick preparatory call ahead of next week's panel".
November 10, 2025 at 10:06 AM
I have two missions in life:
- securing world peace
- dissuading people from organising a "quick preparatory call ahead of next week's panel".
- securing world peace
- dissuading people from organising a "quick preparatory call ahead of next week's panel".
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It is genuinely hard for most people to grasp how poor the past was.
November 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
It is genuinely hard for most people to grasp how poor the past was.
Today is an historic day. For the first time since records began my net to do list decreased.
November 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Today is an historic day. For the first time since records began my net to do list decreased.
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One exciting thing about the BBC Board is it is one of the few places where each constituent kingdom of the UK gets an equal vote - power-sharing in action! Oh, and residents of England? Your representative is Sir Robbie Gibb <ducks for cover>
Seeing so many posts about who “Starmer and Nandy” will appoint as director general. Easy mistake but the government does not appoint the director general! The BBC board, whose members are appointed for rolling terms by the culture secretary, appoints the director general.
November 9, 2025 at 9:21 PM
One exciting thing about the BBC Board is it is one of the few places where each constituent kingdom of the UK gets an equal vote - power-sharing in action! Oh, and residents of England? Your representative is Sir Robbie Gibb <ducks for cover>
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If there was ever a genuine new security threat from GenAI that had real world impacts for orgs where they had to change behaviour to defend, I’d likely be the first to post about it.
Would anybody notice, since almost everybody at cybersecurity vendors are incentivised to cry wolf?
Would anybody notice, since almost everybody at cybersecurity vendors are incentivised to cry wolf?
November 9, 2025 at 9:29 AM
If there was ever a genuine new security threat from GenAI that had real world impacts for orgs where they had to change behaviour to defend, I’d likely be the first to post about it.
Would anybody notice, since almost everybody at cybersecurity vendors are incentivised to cry wolf?
Would anybody notice, since almost everybody at cybersecurity vendors are incentivised to cry wolf?