As per tradition at #cyberuk time to watch a hacker movie and this year is the best hacker movie ever - Sneakers

Call for cross-border action on pimping websites The Sexual Exploitation Research and Policy Institute has called on Minister for Justice Jim O'Callaghan to investigate the role of so-called 'pimping websites' in the Republic of Ireland.

The Sexual Exploitation Research and Policy Institute (SERP) has called on Minister for Justice Jim O'Callaghan to investigate the role of so-called 'pimping websites' in the Republic of Ireland

On my way to CyberUK in Glasgow. Looking forward to catching up with people in person there and exploring my Scottish roots - my grandmother was from Glasgow.

If you are around let me know and we can grab a coffee, a beer, or a wee dram :)

#CyberUK

Before joining Apple in 2001, Ternus worked at a company designing virtual reality headsets. Which I think confirms Apple is going to pivot to the metaverse

Apple says chief Tim Cook stepping down in September Apple has announced that Tim Cook will step down in September, handing the chief executive job to company veteran John Ternus.

Apple has announced that Tim Cook will step down in September, handing the chief executive job to company veteran John Ternus.

Company has more than €2m stolen from account following cyber attack An Irish financial services company had more than €2m stolen from its bank account following a cyber attack.

Apologies I forgot to include the link m.independent.ie/irish-news/c...

Interesting story of an Irish company falling victim to BEC fraud. Criminals hijacked an employee’s email account and sent payment instructions to the company’s outsourced financial admin company.

Company has more than €2m stolen from account following cyber attack

In a nutshell. 😊

I wrote a paper for Digital Business Ireland on the potential impact the proposed changes to the #EU #Cybersecurity Act (#CSA 2.0) could have on SMEs. I also highlight steps to address those issues.

I'd be interested in your thoughts on the topic

www.digitalbusinessireland.ie/news/digital...

EU pushes for stronger cloud sovereignty, awards €180 million to four providers - Help Net Security The European Commission awards a €180 million sovereign cloud tender to support EU digital sovereignty and set cloud standards.

EU pushes for stronger cloud sovereignty, awards €180 million to four providers

🔗 Read more: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/04/20/e...

#EU #cloud #digitalsovereignty
@clever.cloud @scaleway.com

Great pair of legs :) :)

Stabbings, kidnap threats and arson attacks: how the Iranian regime targets UK journalists Staff at outlets critical of Tehran have faced chilling intimidation and violence, amid calls for greater protection and support

Iranian journalists in London “say they fear for their lives after a recent spate of threats and physical attacks,” and I’m willing to bet the regime is leveraging digital attacks against critics too. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

You’re About to See a Lot of Critical Software Updates. Don’t Ignore Them. Here’s the cybersecurity advice you need to start taking seriously right now.

What can regular people do about all the security findings of the latest AI models? My comments to Nicole Nguyen for @wsj.com

Our usual advice, now more than ever:
Keep software up to date
Use long unique passwords
Use a password manager
Use multifactor authentication

www.wsj.com/tech/persona...

Vercel April 2026 security incident | Vercel Knowledge Base We’ve identified a security incident that involved unauthorized access to certain internal Vercel systems.

In other Sunday news, cloud app giant Vercel says it's been hacked that involved "unauthorized access to certain internal Vercel systems." Some customers' affected, though it's not clear if any data was taken. Doesn't say what the security incident is, though, exactly. Unclear if Vercel yet knows.

_"The Government’s consistent cheerleading for data centre expansion has reached a point of reckless disconnect from the economic reality of Irish citizens... Irish families are paying nearly double the electricity rates of these industrial facilities, effectively subsidizing the massive energy consumption of global tech giants while struggling with a punishing cost-of-living crisis." https://greenparty.ie/news/uncritical-expansion-data-centres-will-fuel-social-inequality-and-energy-crisis-cllr-hazel-chu

Data centres uses 32% of Ireland's total electricity supply but pay almost less than half of the residential rate. So we're effectively subsidizing tech giants during a cost of living & energy crisis. Meanwhile this Govt continues to cheerlead their expansion & continue to fail in their obligations.

Bid to take down fake videos and images of garda response to fuel protests False viral information, much of it being generated abroad, is on a scale ‘never seen before’ in Ireland

Meanwhile, Aidan O’Brien, an analyst at the European Digital Media Observatory Ireland at Dublin City University (DCU), has been monitoring how the far-right in Ireland and abroad reacted to the fuel blockades. He said a “disinformation economy” went into full swing during last week’s protests. He uncovered conspiracy theories about the energy crisis and talk of “the great shutdown”, which were already in heavy circulation on Irish social media by the middle of March. “When the protests erupted, Irish right-wing social media influencers went into overdrive posting video content. Many of these influencers benefit from features introduced on the platforms, like algorithm promotion, and have monetised their accounts,” he explained. “There is now a disinformation economy. Influencers know the most dramatic footage, alongside the most sensational framing, will go viral, generating income. They aren’t just promoting this footage and their narratives because it suits their agenda, they’re making money doing so.” After that international far-right influencers pounced on the content, he said. “Nearly immediately, and often within minutes of the initial videos being posted, it was downloaded and repackaged by influencers outside Ireland. “It happened so quickly that you might assume these people are heavily immersed in the situation, but they’re chasing the content, and the story, often repackaging footage with false claims that the protest was about migration. “This happens because over the last five years our disinformation ecology has become exponentially complex and is fully integrated with the international far-right disinformation ecosystem.” Ireland has now become a “major focus of attention” for the international hard-right, he said. Canadian far-right influencer Ezra Levant travelled to Ireland last week as did Kevin Posobiec, whose brother Jack is an American far-right political activist and social media personality. Both filmed content while here. The fact both men…

The fact both men were willing to “jump on a plane” said a lot, added Mr O’Brien. “The foreign attention and amplification of these protests are concerning…Our Government needs to start demanding real accountability and action from these [social media] companies… “If the Minister [for Communications Patrick O’Donovan] is concerned about ‘lopsided coverage’ of the protests, he shouldn’t be worried about the radio but look at social media.” On Friday, Minister O’Donovan admitted he made a “hames” of his call for a “review” into broadcast media coverage of fuel protests. He said, “in hindsight”, he should not have suggested that the media regulator — Coimisiún na Meán — should “review” both local and national broadcast coverage of the fuel protests.

I spoke to the Sindo about the unprecedented scale of disinformation we witnessed during the fuel protests & the disinformation economy. It's not enough to get this content removed post-hoc; we need to hold the platforms accountable for promoting disinformation & hate speech.
archive.ph/AOVHC

"In the late noughties we went virtually overnight from massive surpluses to a €20 billion hole in the public finances, resulting in enormous and hugely painful cuts in public expenditure.

That could happen again."

Government should be loud about the risks Trump's war poses.

Edwin Black: Infamous Auschwitz Tattoo Began as an IBM Number [Edwin Black is the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of IBM and the Holocaust, and the forthcoming book, The Plan--How to Save America the Day after the Oil Stops— or Perhaps the Da...

Why are those Europeans so hung up on data protection?

www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/edwi...

I laughed

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.

"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."

Amazing writing from Jennifer Horgan”: Angry men's blockades stopped my mother being with her dying brother-in-law last week. She was not the only vulnerable person whose needs were trampled on” #speirgorm

McEntee urges EU action over Israel's death penalty law Ireland has joined Spain and Slovenia in formally calling for the EU to take action against Israel over a new law that would impose a mandatory death sentence on Palestinians accused of carrying out d...

Ireland has joined Spain and Slovenia in formally calling for the EU to take action against Israel over a new law that would impose a mandatory death sentence on Palestinians accused of carrying out deadly attacks on Israelis

Status of Schrödinger’s Strait to be determined by Schrödinger’s Ceasefire

lol

CTO at NCSC Summary: week ending April 19th. As AI accelerates vulnerability discovery, organisations must raise their security baselines to safeguard their cyber security.

Weekly summary is out...

ctoatncsc.substack.com/p/cto-at-ncs...

Happy 50th birthday to "The Boys Are Back In Town" by Thin Lizzy!

"That chick who got up and she slapped Johnny's face" is probably in her seventies now.

Ransomware attack continues to disrupt healthcare in London nearly two years later More than 18 months after a ransomware attack disrupted care at hospitals in South East London, documents show at least one NHS trust is still working without fully restored systems and managing large...

NEW: More than 18 months after a ransomware attack disrupted care at hospitals in South East London, internal documents show at least one NHS trust is still working without fully restored systems and managing large backlogs of delayed test results.

How hackers are helping criminal gangs hijack truck deliveries Cargo hijackings are on the rise, as cybercriminals use remote access tools to track and divert large shipments of high-end goods from delivery trucks around the world.

For this.weekinsecurity.com, I wrote about how hackers are helping criminal gangs hijack and steal delivery trucks packed full of consumer goods — from vapes to lobster meat heists, to potentially 12 tons of KitKat bars.

It's a growing but underreported problem. I explain more for subscribers. ❤️

Teen arrested in Northern Ireland over cyberattack on school network A 16-year-old boy has been arrested in Northern Ireland after a cyberattack disrupted access to educational systems used by potentially hundreds of thousands of students.

Teen arrested in Northern Ireland over cyberattack on school network therecord.media/northern-ire...

NASA astronaut Christina Koch sits in an U.S. Navy MH-60S Seahawk attached to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 23 on the flight deck of the San Antonio Class amphibious transport dock USS John P. Murtha (LPD 26) after returning from space on Apr. 10, 2026.

This picture of Astronaut Christina Koch after the Artemis landing is frankly incredible and beautiful.