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NetBlocks⏱️ ICYMI: #Afghanistan experienced a nationwide internet shutdown lasting 48 hours on 29 September, leaving the population cut off from the world; the incident follows earlier provincial blackouts and digital curfews as the Taliban say they are combatting "vice" and "immorality"
Tuta🚨 Big win for privacy in France? 🇫🇷
MPs just backed a law making it illegal to break end-to-end encryption.
❌ No backdoors
❌ No ghost profiles
❌ No hidden surveillance
Is France finally standing up for our digital rights? 🔐
404 MediaYouTube removed a channel that was dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of women being shot in the head following 404 Media’s request for comment. The videos were clearly generated with Google’s new AI video generator tool.
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Kevin Beaumont40 year old man arrested in connection to airport cybersecurity incident https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62ldxyj431o
NPR and PBS have somehow managed to run a completely bollocks article linking the EU airport thing to AI - the article itself written by an AI cybersecurity vendor. https://www.wgcu.org/science-tech/2025-09-23/detection-expert-says-hackers-likely-used-ai-to-penetrate-airport-system
It's completely false. The payloads used in this one are detected by free Defender AV with a decade old static AV detections. This is not some cyber mega attack by a ransomware group: it's extremely poor security hygiene.
Robert Peston, who was the first to report on the government's bailout of banks in the 2008 financial crisis, reports the UK government is considering bailing out JLR's suppliers by effectively becoming the lender of last resort - by buying parts off suppliers, and then reselling them to Jaguar Land Rover.
In effect the UK government will become JLR's supplier's customer.
https://www.itv.com/news/2025-09-24/how-the-government-plans-to-support-jaguar-land-rover-suppliers
RTX, the owner of Collins aka ARINC, finally filed an 8K with the SEC for a ransomware incident. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/101829/000010182925000036/rtx-20250919.htm?7194ef805fa2d04b0f7e8c9521f97343
If your board is concerned about the EU ransomware thing - there is no need to be concerned. It is not a wider issue.
It wouldn't surprise me if the person arrested turns out to be an employee trying to do incident response or some such (I'm not saying they're guilty, at all).
It's an extremely unusual incident and essentially involves lax cybersecurity and confused response.