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Microsoft disputes this and says the ICC itself suspended Khan’s account.

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Would maybe not have phrased it quite like that?

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New: Three men detained in Finland since Christmas Day after their ship severed multiple subsea cables in the Baltic Sea could be charged with criminal offenses within the next two months, according to the country’s prosecution authority.

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I use ChatGPT to procrastinate by getting it to draw editorial cartoons in the style of Punch magazine based on stories I've already written.

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When I'm thinking about responding to emails missed over a few days off and out of the office.

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Really valuable contribution to public understanding on the issue of ransomware in @bindinghook.bsky.social, written by two of the UK’s foremost experts: bindinghook.com/articles-bin...

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🚨NEW REPORT: exposing clever new hacking tactic. 🇷🇺Russian state-backed hackers used an App-Specific Password attack against prominent Russia expert @keirgiles.bsky.social It's like they knew what we all expect from 🇷🇺...and then did the opposite 1/ By us @citizenlab.ca & Google's GTIG

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You can understand when people are ashamed at having been outwitted and don’t want to talk about it. But it doesn’t help everybody else understand the threat. With a huge number of people potentially affected by this, our common security is more important than any one of us feeling embarrassed!

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“Sara Aagesen said REE did not have enough thermal power stations switched on during peak hours of April 28 when the surge caused a chain reaction leading to the power outage.“

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It was an honour and a privilege to be invited to give a talk yesterday at the Tallinn Cyber Diplomacy Summer School 2025 on technological interdependency. Sharing the stage with Luukas Ilves and Tanel Sepp was fantastic. My huge thanks to all who contribute to putting on this wonderful event. 👏

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This podcast is an absolutely great concept delivered brilliantly. Top stuff from all contributors. 👏

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Keir Giles (@keirgiles.bsky.social), a prominent British researcher on Russia, announced this weekend several of his email accounts had been targeted “with a sophisticated account takeover” by hackers impersonating the U.S. State Department. He was previously targeted by hackers linked to the FSB.

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Today we are releasing a report on new infrastructure and tooling linked to GrayAlpha, a financially motivated threat actor overlapping with FIN7 🧵 www.recordedfuture.com/research/gra...

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Outstanding work from @julianferdinand.bsky.social, @lawrencesec.bsky.social, and our Malicious Infrastructure Discovery (MID) team. GrayAlpha shows how financially motivated actors operate with APT-level tradecraft. Time to retire old threat models. Think in terms of ecosystems, not just malware.

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About a decade ago I had the huge privilege of interviewing James Thirsk, then 101, who told me he’d been stationed at Beaumanor with MI8 Communications before moving to Hut Six at Bletchley Park where he worked under Welchman on figuring out the call signs used in intercepted German radio traffic.

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New: WhatsApp on Wednesday announced it was seeking to intervene in a legal case between Apple and the British government regarding whether the iPhone maker can be forced to retain access to the content of its users’ iCloud accounts in order to comply with legal warrants.

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Britain’s communications regulator Ofcom has announced its intention to investigate the notorious imageboard 4chan alongside several other sites for hosting illegal content and failing to verify users’ ages. Officials in Westminster worry it might spark an ugly argument with JD Vance...

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Gutted this Ctrl+F had 0 hits. Story: www.economist.com/finance-and-...

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Entrepreneur ‘humiliated’ after London Tech Week turns her and baby away

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Following years-long delays in the United Kingdom bringing forward new cybersecurity legislation, what seems to be an increasingly exasperated National Cyber Security Centre called this week for the country to adopt a strategic policy agenda to tackle the growing risks.

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Another way that ransomware attacks can have serious real-world implications. If you are in the UK, this would be a good week to donate blood, if you can. NHS calls for 1 million blood donors as UK stocks remain low following cyberattack Via @alexmartin.bsky.social & @therecordmedia.bsky.social

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NHS England issued a call on Monday for 1 million people to give blood this week as stocks remain low following a cyberattack last year. Just 2% of the population “is keeping the nation’s blood stocks afloat” said Monday’s announcement, and “there is now a pressing need to avoid a Red Alert.”

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Operation Eagle Flush was designed to tackle “a syndicate, primarily led by Chinese nationals, that recruits and trains Nigerian youths in cyber-fraud, including dating, romance, and investment scams.” Nine of those Chinese nationals have now been jailed. More have been arraigned. Read here ⤵️

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It does feel like the first page of this week’s The Tablet takes a surprisingly sharp turn about halfway through. Online: www.thetablet.co.uk/editors-desk...

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Russians are using ChatGPT to incrementally improve malware. Chinese groups are using it to mass create fake social media comments. North Koreans are using it to refine fake resumes #OpenAI is likely only catching a fraction of nation-state use therecord.media/openai-takes...

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Operation Eagle Flush was designed to tackle “a syndicate, primarily led by Chinese nationals, that recruits and trains Nigerian youths in cyber-fraud, including dating, romance, and investment scams.” Nine of those Chinese nationals have now been jailed. More have been arraigned. Read here ⤵️

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Love a chance to share some good and uplifting news. HT @jwarminsky.bsky.social

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A Ukrainian hacker was arrested after allegedly gaining unauthorized access to more than 5,000 user accounts belonging to a global hosting provider, and using them to mine cryptocurrency causing $4.5 million in losses for the company therecord.media/ukrainian-po...

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New, and sure to be controversial: The firm hired to protect the Harris-Walz campaign's iPhones believes it has seen indication that a handful of high profile Americans' phones — including campaign members'! — were hacked with sophisticated and unidentified spyware.

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At FTC event Wednesday, Chair Ferguson asks Congress to toughen COPPA. Speaking of current age checks based on DOB, he says: "Everyone in this room knows that this method of age verification provides little to no barrier of access for children under the age of 13." therecord.media/ftc-chair-im...

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There are days when I think Liz Truss might actually be a Maoist revolutionary who is attempting to accelerate what she sees as the inevitable collapse of parliamentary democracy and global capitalism as a whole. Source: www.ft.com/content/17b5...

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Do you know what the date is today? Today is the anniversary of the Tiananmen square massacre. Dictators hope that if they make us afraid to speak the truth for long enough... we'll forget it. This is how history is erased. A Day to Remember, 2005, by Liu Wei Full: vimeo.com/44078865

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Do you have any idea how long it took for the SBU to teach them how to do this?

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nice.gif

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China is stepping up espionage on Dutch semiconductors, the Netherlands' Defense Minister Ruben Brekelmans has said.

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New: Australia became on Friday the first country in the world to require victims of ransomware attacks to declare to the government any extortion payments made on their behalf to cybercriminals.

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