Ian Towner 

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Infrastructure and Security engineer focused on Microsoft and related platforms.

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This seems really specific, but if you're:

✅ A security engineer
✅ UK based
✅ Looking for work
✅ Someone who loves cats

There's a remote role open now at Cats Protection that you might want to check out:
https://careers.cats.org.uk/job/799934

#FediHire

Careers | Work with cats | Cats Protection

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Black Friday 2025 - Antisyphon Training

Starting today November 24th through December 31st, 2025, when you sign up for our Black Friday deal you will also receive a one (1) virtual ticket to the

Antisyphon Training

LOL, I haven't been this disappointed by AI in a long time. I made a very pretty image of a "billion dollar butterfly". And it was perfect.

And then I asked it to make a movie of it flapping its wings and flying away, and it got me excited. And then I got the result 🤣🤣🤣

Eventually I found out what these values are. They are: democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs. Not sure how arresting me if I have "I support Palestine Action. I oppose genocide" on a piece of cardboard lives up to the values of individual liberty or respecting those with different beliefs, but maybe I've misunderstood.

The United Kingdom's government is planning to ban public sector and critical infrastructure organizations from paying ransoms after ransomware attacks.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/uk-to-ban-public-sector-orgs-from-paying-ransomware-gangs/

UK to ban public sector orgs from paying ransomware gangs

The United Kingdom's government is planning to ban public sector and critical infrastructure organizations from paying ransoms after ransomware attacks.

BleepingComputer

Since NoName057(16) is no more, I might as well reveal how I tracked them now.

It’s super dumb.

I cosplayed as a Russian supporter (under my real name btw, I have nothing to hide), then actually ran their Ddosia client from a PC which could only access their C2 (so couldn’t actually execute attacks).

I used video game modding tools to automatically extract the AES encrypted config (  ) and automatically dump it into Excel spreadsheets so defending orgs knew what to block.

Microsoft has confirmed a new known issue causing delivery delays for June 2025 Windows security updates due to an incorrect metadata timestamp.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-warns-of-Windows-security-update-delays-due-to-incorrect-metadata-timestamp/

Microsoft warns of Windows update delays due to wrong timestamp

Microsoft has confirmed a new known issue causing delivery delays for June 2025 Windows security updates due to an incorrect metadata timestamp.

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