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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.
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This uniquely preserved Late Neolithic flint dagger (2900 BCE) was found in Allensbach at the Lake Constance, southwest #Germany. The blade was made of flint from Monte Baldo, northern #Italy. It was fastened with birch tar in a handle made of elderwood. 📷 @almbawue.bsky.social 🏺 #archaeology

No words, I can’t remember ever being so furious. The EU needs to open the spending taps on defence and Ukraine. Fuck Trump and Vance.

Never turn down a trip to Paris

That's amazing

Oof this is brilliant

Maybe I don't want a "fast paced job working with cutting edge technology and the opportunity to build a team of network engineers". Maybe I just want a 9-5 job with nice colleagues who aren't under extreme stress. Why do these sort of statements appear in job adverts as if they are an attraction?

This is a great read. I don't think enough non-tech people appreciate the fragility of the IT systems we all depend upon. labs.watchtowr.com/8-million-re...

Oh my god, they just unintentionally wrecked a ton of red team playbooks at the NSA popular.info/p/the-nsas-b...

This is idiotic.

When the USA decides to rip up data protection legislation (I suspect this will be in the next week or two) it's going to make cloud computing fun for most....

Now the whole country gets the experience of what it's like when private equity buys the place you work

Would anyone still have that Liz Truss lettuce? We'll need it for the US.

The axolotl song is the greatest thing since badger badger www.tiktok.com/@doctor_waff...

This is Fudge. She may not be the sharpest pup in the world, but more importantly, she is not a quitter. 13/10

Good morning to all the west coast employees of European companies & your helpful furry office mates

Hey, nice to meet you! We’re the European Medicines Agency or simply EMA, and we make sure medicines in Europe are safe and effective. We talk about new medicines in the EU, latest health advancements, public and animal health news and much more. Follow us #health www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJl-...

A new Irish mean speed record set at Mace Head at 4am with 135kmh beating previous record of 131kmh from January 1945. I said #StormÉowyn would be a historic event and it now a is.

Interesting, there's a lot of Linux servers running this.

Anyone heard of any ITW attacks abusing the Windows OLE RCE (CVE-2025-21298)? #InfoSec

Let's Encrypt will stop sending email notifications for expired domains starting June 4 this year. The organization says sending the emails costs it tens of thousands of USD each year. It also wants to stop storing millions of emails to improve customer privacy. letsencrypt.org/2025/01/22/e...

#StormÉowyn is heading straight for Trump’s golf course in Ireland. Maybe he could something about it, seems careless.

Status Red - Wind warning for Clare, Cork, Kerry, Limerick now from 3am Friday to 10am Friday. Updated 10am Wednesday.

I know how you feel www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSc8...

The latest ECMWF which Met Éireann use before their high resolution model comes into view shows a a very dangerous storm Friday bringing damaging gusts across the country with biggest impacts into Southwest and West. #StormÉowyn is looking like a very serious storm.

Google’s NotebookLM had to teach its AI podcast hosts not to act annoyed at humans

After recent news of attackers encrypting customer S3 objects with KMS as part of ransomware (a technique first discussed in 2019), AWS has provided some guidance for avoiding this threat. aws.amazon.com/blogs/securi...

A new group, Belsen Group, claim to have released Fortigate configs for 15k firewalls. #threatintel

Never thought I’d be a (metaphorical) greybeard, and now here I am. Life goes fast.

Of course it’s a Collie

can we connect RedNote directly to the War Thunder forums to more efficiently transfer classified information

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Senator: I’ll speak in his defense because to err is human. Who among us hasn’t shown up drunk to work? Who here hasn’t cheated on their wife? Hegseth: Please stop helping me Senator: Who hasn’t taken off their pants at the zoo?

please god let me never write an app so bad the CEO has to resign

ok I am a convert, the orb is WILD

Ouch

Just incredible.

RTO for "watercooler moments" is the laziest way I can think of to increase collaboration. It's like saying "hey, we're shit at communicating, but if you're in the office maybe you'll stumble over some information you need to know".