...aber #KI kann ganz viele Jobs ersetzen, richtig? 🫠

#excel

If you're on Mathstodon, you probably feel some kinda way about #excel

I personally love it, but wish people were better informed of its risk and weaknesses. I've been a serial attender of @EuSpRIG - the annual academic conference on spreadsheet risk and governance.

Very proud to say I'm now on the management committee for it as well! If you have some spreadsheet risk & error stories to share or just want to come see others' horror stories, more details at https://eusprig.org/

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/115962508398912420

Hmm... I might be doing more virtual speaking engagements rather than in-person in the near future...

Folks, our very own @gerrymcgovern has his new book, 99th Day: A Warning About Technology, coming out next Monday.

https://gerrymcgovern.com/books/99th-day/

“99th Day is essential reading for anyone who cares about our planet. Prepare to be disturbed, enlightened and inspired.” – Justine McCarthy, The Irish Times

And, if you’re in Ireland, Gerry has a book tour in February. If I’m in the country, I’ll be at the Dublin event on the 9th. Hope to see some of you there :)

https://gerrymcgovern.com/tour/

💕

#99thDay #books #environment #climateChange #capitalism #technology #BigTech #technoSolutionism #fascism #ireland

📣 Help needed! For our upcoming #RSAC talk, @boblord and I are studying cyber near misses, moments where serious harm was narrowly avoided, and what we can learn from them. These near misses might apply to software development, or to network defense. (Please boost for reach! 🙏)

We are hoping to surface general patterns using some (anonymized) examples.

If you’re willing, reply with a high-level response to one or two of these prompts. Anonymize as appropriate, and/or send to us in DMs if you prefer:

* What lesson did an organization fail to learn after a near miss, even though it seemed obvious at the time?
* Describe a time when you discovered something and thought “If we didn’t catch this now, it would have been baaaaad”.
* Describe a time when you dealt with a software vulnerability in your systems that was being actively exploited elsewhere, but (as far as you could tell), not in yours. What saved the day?
* What repeated “almost failures” do you see getting normalized or waved away as acceptable risk?
* Can you recall a near miss triggered by a third party such as a researcher report, customer question, bug bounty submission, or vendor advisory that revealed a bigger issue than expected?
* Can you think of a near miss where the most important factor was not a security control, but a human action like someone double-checking, questioning an alert, or escalating a “weird feeling”?

Thanks!

DRI is working on a web page to list and signpost notable people, organisations and departments that have abandoned X due to #Grok and #CSAM distribution.

Please share with us the X handles/names of departed accounts and where those people/orgs can now be found for our signposting page.

RE: https://mastodon.ie/@dri/115899811381324058

If you know of journalists or organizations in particular, please let @dri know

UK Prime Minister Starmer seeks support for international X ban

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is in talks with Canada and Australia in an effort to muster support for a potential international ban on social media X. It comes after the platform’s integrated AI assistant, Grok, was used to generate sexualised deepfakes of women and children.

https://www.euractiv.com/news/uk-prime-minister-starmer-seeks-support-for-international-x-ban/