Cyber Correspondent, BBC News. Author of Ctrl+Alt+Chaos. I cover cyber security, online safety, crypto, AI, social networks and everything 💻📱📡. Global news mainly. DMs always open for tips/ feedback.
Joe Tidy BBC News
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Jailed crypto founder Sam Bankman-Fried seeks Trump pardon. He's filed an application for pardon after completion of his 25 yr sentence which he is in the process of appealing. SBF has also spent the last year using his twitter feed to flatter the president. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I'm reading 'On Writing Well' by William Zinsser and found this nugget of fantastic writing from many years ago in The New Yorker about 'property developer' Donald Trump.
As my mum always helpfully reminds me - [in a Dudley accent] "cyber is bloody boring!". But I spoke to a student who's exam was literally interrupted by the Canvas hack and it was one of those rare visual incidents that make you sit up and take notice: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Live page up and running for the Keir Starmer announcement about making a "world first" rule that children can't share nude images through their phones. My post just now - 'Does the technology exist to ban children from taking explicit images?'
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Canvas hack: company pays criminals to delete students' stolen data. "While there is never complete certainty when dealing with cyber criminals, we believe it was important to take every step within our control," the company said. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Great round up of the intrigues and newslines from the Musk vs Altman trial here from @lilyjamali.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Champion ethical hacker warns AI tools like Mythos will make competing harder. Valentina 'Chompie' Palmiotti won $70,000 for finding 2 serious bugs at the prestigious Pwn2Own Berlin contest. She said she had to enter full 'zombie hacker mode' to work through the night www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Joe Tidy BBC News
The criminals have offered “assurance”. Ffs
Also they’ve offered assurance that no one will be extorted. They haven’t mentioned not selling on the data for scams
I’ve dealt with several thousand cyber incidents over the past 5 years, and currently lead a global emerging threat team.
Amount of those being GenAI incidents: zero. Amount being foundational causes: every single one.
Joe Tidy BBC News
Joe Tidy BBC News
If Mr Farage wants people to believe his phone was hacked by hostile actors “almost certainly linked to Moscow”, normal practice would be for the experts who examined the phone to be named (or at least their company) alongside some published technical evidence 1/2
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The government says it will introduce new laws if firms don't act quickly to prevent children from sharing or receiving nude images.
I get there's lots of AI buzz, but companies *still* aren't doing basic cybersecurity stuff. That's what's mostly causing major hacks and lapses of late.
Plus: Govs rolling out age-verification and private co's expanding KYC should think again. Exposed IDs undermine these already-crap systems.
The tech company that maintains the hotel check-in system set its cloud storage to public, allowing anyone to access customers' data without a password.
