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Cyber Correspondent @ BBC News. Cyber security, online safety, crypto, AI, social networks and everything 💻📱📡. Global news mainly. DMs always open for tips/ feedback.
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M&S stops online orders following cyber attack. Fall-out from this cyber attack is getting worse not better 4 days after customers were alerted to an attack. The firm is not saying what's happening but there are a few possible scenarios. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

OK so Google Gemini is out. CRAZY that a company that relies on people publishing information on the internet is actively not sharing the links to the websites it scrapes from. Any ideas for 'ethical AI bots' I can use without feeling like I'm contributing to the death of the internet?

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

I think about this more than ever. As someone who has written a book at huge personal sacrifice (400ish hrs of work) the idea its content will be eaten then vomited out by an AI chatbot angers me. But bots are inescapable. So I've decided on one rule: only use AI that actually reference its sources

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Headline: "The Future of AI and Robotics Is Being Led by Amazon’s Next-Gen Warehouses". First line:

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

After years of the West naming and shaming nation-state hackers I have wondered (and written about) the lack of similar finger pointing back at the US etc. This new shift from China to out western hackers for cyber spying is overall a good thing for transparency. www.theregister.com/2025/04/15/c...

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Man Pleads Guilty to Submitting False Tax Returns Tied to $13M CryptoPunks Sales. According to court filings, Wilcox sold 62 Punks in 2021 for $7.4 million, and another 35 in 2022 for nearly $4.9 million but said he had sold none. Could be jailed - interesting test case decrypt.co/314654/man-p...

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Positive news from the UK gov's annual Cyber Security Breaches Survey. 43% of businesses and 30% of charities reported having experienced a cyber security breach or attack in the last 12 months. A small decrease among businesses compared to 2024 (50%). Also encouraging news here:

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Fascinating commentary here about the addictive qualities of AI companions versus social media. www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/08/1...

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

WhatsApp's new AI search bar bot is so jarring. Another example of a product evolution aligned with a company's wishes not in any way called for by users. Like Spotify trying to make us watch music videos/ visualisations. Genuinely surprised there hasn't been a backlash about WhatsApp.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Wild details here from a Scattered Spider hacker who pleaded guilty last week. Noah Urban from Florida was known online as 'King Bob' (yes from the Minions movie) and was making insane money from his hacking gang from the age of just 17... www.news4jax.com/news/local/2...

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

1 minute trailer for my book - Ctrl+Alt+Chaos: How Teenage Hackers Hijack the Internet. Details here: eandtbooks.com/books/ctrlal...

submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments

I've been talking to the Oracle hacker. They're threatening to release more data unless they get $3m in XMR coins. Over the weekend 'Rose' will apparently publish data from 'euro region datacenter oraclecloud'. They added: 'i dont like to do blackhat works, and if they pay , no one see me again'.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Oracle Acknowledges Data Breach and Starts Informing Affected Clients. cybersecuritynews.com/oracle-ackno...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

I'm a Trend Micro live seminar about the Russian hacker underground and hat tip to expert Vladimir Kropotov who has arrived suitably dressed. This is now how I imagine all threat researchers to look...

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Interesting opinion piece in El Reg on the ongoing Oracle data breach debacle: "All things considered, Oracle's response might go down as one of the all-time lows in the genre." www.theregister.com/2025/04/02/o...

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

Global crackdown on Kidflix, a major child sexual exploitation site with almost two million users. The Europol-supported operation led to 79 arrests and 1 400 identifications. This website was horrific:

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Our full 6minute video report from Zambia is now up on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxtp... (Filmed and edited by Emma Ailes)

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Google has released out-of-band fixes to address a high-severity security flaw in its Chrome browser for Windows that has been exploited in the wild as part of attacks targeting organizations in Russia. What do we think then - a US/ Five Eyes operation? Ukraine?👀 thehackernews.com/2025/03/zero...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

In Jan 2024 I reported on the viral chatbot 'AI Therapist' on CharacterAI. 78m messages had been sent to it. Now it's 120m. CharacterAI added a disclaimer but interestingly MIT says clinical studies point to some genuine positives of some therapy bots: www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/28/1...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Kink and LGBT dating apps exposed 1.5m private user images online. Users of BDSM People, Chica, Pink, Brish and Translove all affected as researchers found photo folders without any password protection. Firm behind the apps warned about it months ago but took no action. www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment