Irish, work in cybersecurity, do a bit of everything. Expert in nothing except Powerpoint and fixing broken processes.
Posts are a mixture of #infosec, #hiking, #ireland, and anything that makes me smile.
Posts are a mixture of #infosec, #hiking, #ireland, and anything that makes me smile.
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Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower
December 21, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower
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Man answering his phone on the train: Yes? Correct, I’m not at work (pause) I’m not going to answer that because I am not at work today. No, you’re going to have to ask someone who is. Goodbye.
December 17, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Man answering his phone on the train: Yes? Correct, I’m not at work (pause) I’m not going to answer that because I am not at work today. No, you’re going to have to ask someone who is. Goodbye.
Amazon one-time-passwords for deliveries are probably the least user-friendly security mechanism I've encountered in recent years. Deliveries arrive on random days and you only receive a code on the morning of the delivery, and half the time the drivers don't make much effort to try and deliver.
December 2, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Amazon one-time-passwords for deliveries are probably the least user-friendly security mechanism I've encountered in recent years. Deliveries arrive on random days and you only receive a code on the morning of the delivery, and half the time the drivers don't make much effort to try and deliver.
The Waymo driving nonchalantly past the police standoff is just the funniest thing….
December 2, 2025 at 9:27 AM
The Waymo driving nonchalantly past the police standoff is just the funniest thing….
"investors worry that a business model that relied on a virtuous circle of rising crypto prices and massive share and debt issuance is now unravelling." 😂😅
November 26, 2025 at 10:49 AM
"investors worry that a business model that relied on a virtuous circle of rising crypto prices and massive share and debt issuance is now unravelling." 😂😅
Oh oh
Thousands of credentials, authentication keys, and configuration data impacting organizations in sensitive sectors have been sitting in publicly accessible JSON snippets submitted to the JSONFormatter and CodeBeautify online tools that format and structure code.
Code-formatters expose thousands of secrets from banks, govt, tech orgs
Thousands of credentials, authentication keys, and configuration data impacting organizations in sensitive sectors have been sitting in publicly accessible JSON snippets submitted to the JSONFormatter and CodeBeautify online tools that format and structure code.
www.bleepingcomputer.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Oh oh
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Cloudflare: 99% of systems are operational!
Uhhh... that's... um... isn't that an important one?
Uhhh... that's... um... isn't that an important one?
November 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Cloudflare: 99% of systems are operational!
Uhhh... that's... um... isn't that an important one?
Uhhh... that's... um... isn't that an important one?
AWS, Azure & Cloudflare. The holy trinity of outages recently.
November 18, 2025 at 11:58 AM
AWS, Azure & Cloudflare. The holy trinity of outages recently.
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The smartest and most illuminating piece on scams I've read in quite some time: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘Scamming became the new farming’: inside India’s cybercrime villages
The long read: How did an obscure district in a neglected state become India’s byword for digital deceit?
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:22 AM
The smartest and most illuminating piece on scams I've read in quite some time: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Police have released bodycam footage from the first moments after yesterday’s Russian strike on a kindergarten in Kharkiv.
In it, officers are seen evacuating terrified children from the basement. The kids are visibly shaken. their building had just exploded above their heads.
In it, officers are seen evacuating terrified children from the basement. The kids are visibly shaken. their building had just exploded above their heads.
October 23, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Police have released bodycam footage from the first moments after yesterday’s Russian strike on a kindergarten in Kharkiv.
In it, officers are seen evacuating terrified children from the basement. The kids are visibly shaken. their building had just exploded above their heads.
In it, officers are seen evacuating terrified children from the basement. The kids are visibly shaken. their building had just exploded above their heads.
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Most Iranian-flagged tankers are now transmitting properly over AIS without spoofing for the first time since 2018, according to analysis by @tankertrackers.com, citing two different AIS data providers.
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Iran’s tankers flicker back to life on AIS - Splash247
Most Iranian-flagged tankers are now transmitting properly over AIS without spoofing for the first time since 2018, according to analysis by TankerTrackers.com, citing two different AIS data providers...
splash247.com
October 14, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Most Iranian-flagged tankers are now transmitting properly over AIS without spoofing for the first time since 2018, according to analysis by @tankertrackers.com, citing two different AIS data providers.
splash247.com/irans-tanker...
splash247.com/irans-tanker...
You can’t just hire a bunch of MAGAs with computer diplomas and expect to replace all the talent you are losing from CISA. The hobbling of these organisations is a loss for the entire world.
October 11, 2025 at 9:42 AM
You can’t just hire a bunch of MAGAs with computer diplomas and expect to replace all the talent you are losing from CISA. The hobbling of these organisations is a loss for the entire world.
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SonicWall has confirmed that all customers that used the company's cloud backup service are affected by the security breach last month.
SonicWall: Firewall configs stolen for all cloud backup customers
SonicWall has confirmed that all customers that used the company's cloud backup service are affected by the security breach last month.
www.bleepingcomputer.com
October 9, 2025 at 2:13 PM
SonicWall has confirmed that all customers that used the company's cloud backup service are affected by the security breach last month.
This "Liquid Glass" effect is making my iPhone look like a 10 year old knock-off Android phone that's trying too hard.
October 2, 2025 at 2:16 PM
This "Liquid Glass" effect is making my iPhone look like a 10 year old knock-off Android phone that's trying too hard.
WTF does “move out and draw fire” mean? Is this not a bad thing?
October 1, 2025 at 7:10 AM
WTF does “move out and draw fire” mean? Is this not a bad thing?
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From Rasmus Jarlov, chair of Denmark’s Defence Committee:
September 23, 2025 at 4:52 PM
From Rasmus Jarlov, chair of Denmark’s Defence Committee:
That's expensive...
A strike with 14 Ukrainian drones hit the “Molkino” training ground in Russia’s Krasnodar region in late August. Several Iskander launchers were destroyed, a Pantsir-S1 system was damaged, and warehouses along with other vehicles were affected.
September 23, 2025 at 2:21 PM
That's expensive...
Person with suspected detonators arrested in Dublin airport, worryingly only discovered on a stopover between the UK & US.
www.rte.ie/news/2025/09...
www.rte.ie/news/2025/09...
Dublin Airport's T2 reopens following security alert
Terminal 2 at Dublin Airport has reopened to passengers after a security alert this morning prompted an evacuation.
www.rte.ie
September 20, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Person with suspected detonators arrested in Dublin airport, worryingly only discovered on a stopover between the UK & US.
www.rte.ie/news/2025/09...
www.rte.ie/news/2025/09...
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Does Trump blame Poland immediately or wait until he’s spoken to Putin and blame Poland tomorrow?
September 9, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Does Trump blame Poland immediately or wait until he’s spoken to Putin and blame Poland tomorrow?
My first time seeing this. 😂
September 9, 2025 at 7:29 PM
My first time seeing this. 😂
Animals laugh too.. www.openculture.com/2022/01/anim...
Animals Laugh Too: UCLA Study Finds Laughter in 65 Species, from Rats to Cows
Every pet owner knows that animals love to play, but laughter seems reserved for humans, a few apes, and maybe a few birds good at mimicking humans and apes.
www.openculture.com
September 8, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Animals laugh too.. www.openculture.com/2022/01/anim...
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Our malware systems at Sonatype seem to be picking these up coming from other, not yet reported accounts. This attack seems to have landed more publishers as this unfolds. Check your accounts folks while we work with others to contain.
September 8, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Our malware systems at Sonatype seem to be picking these up coming from other, not yet reported accounts. This attack seems to have landed more publishers as this unfolds. Check your accounts folks while we work with others to contain.
Multiple important npm compromises. I always feel bad for the devs involved, they don’t need this hassle.
Yep, I've been pwned. 2FA reset email, looked very legitimate.
Only NPM affected. I've sent an email off to @npmjs.bsky.social to see if I can get access again.
Sorry everyone, I should have paid more attention. Not like me; have had a stressful week. Will work to get this cleaned up.
Only NPM affected. I've sent an email off to @npmjs.bsky.social to see if I can get access again.
Sorry everyone, I should have paid more attention. Not like me; have had a stressful week. Will work to get this cleaned up.
@bad-at-computer.bsky.social Hey. Your npm account seems to have been compromised. 1 hour ago it started posting packages with backdoors to all your popular packages.
September 8, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Multiple important npm compromises. I always feel bad for the devs involved, they don’t need this hassle.
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One long sentence is all it takes to make LLMs misbehave
Chatbots ignore their guardrails when your grammar sucks, researchers find Security researchers from Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 have discovered the key to getting large language model (LLM) chatbots to ignore their guardrails, and it's qu...
Chatbots ignore their guardrails when your grammar sucks, researchers find Security researchers from Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 have discovered the key to getting large language model (LLM) chatbots to ignore their guardrails, and it's qu...
One long sentence is all it takes to make LLMs misbehave
go.theregister.com
August 26, 2025 at 8:40 AM
One long sentence is all it takes to make LLMs misbehave
Chatbots ignore their guardrails when your grammar sucks, researchers find Security researchers from Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 have discovered the key to getting large language model (LLM) chatbots to ignore their guardrails, and it's qu...
Chatbots ignore their guardrails when your grammar sucks, researchers find Security researchers from Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 have discovered the key to getting large language model (LLM) chatbots to ignore their guardrails, and it's qu...