UK government declares ransomware a “tier 1” national security threat — on par with terrorism and war.

I've written about the background: https://doublepulsar.com/uk-government-declares-ransomware-a-tier-1-national-security-threat-on-par-with-terrorism-and-ce97ed79e74b

Here's another reason why you should share malware distribution sites on #URLhaus ⬇️⬇️⬇️

We push confirmed malware domains to major public DNS providers, protecting billions of internet users world wide from getting infected with malware 🛡️🪲🛑

Participate in the growing community and contribute confirmed malware sites to URLhaus 🤝 Together we are strong! 💪

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Introducing my hobby coding project since xmas:

Mastotron!

It's a different interface to Mastodon, replacing the mindless "feed" of most social media with a network map of conversations and recent and popular posts.

👉 You can download it here: https://github.com/quadrismegistus/mastotron 🖖

There's easy, double-click installation for Mac and Linux; Windows is a bit trickier for now.

This is b new, so bound to be bugs. But if you can, give it a whirl, and let me know if it works and what you'd like to see!

I know there is a lot going on at Twitter right now, but here's one more thing. Twitter is ignoring #GDPR requests from people to delete their DMs.

At the moment, when you press delete on a Twitter DM (an individual message or conversation) the DM isn't actually deleted from Twitter's servers, just your inbox view.

So people in Europe have been making requests for Twitter to blitz all their messages. It hasn't properly answered them. And now regulators are looking at it

Full story here: https://www.wired.com/story/delete-twitter-dms-gdpr/

#Twitter #gdpr #infosec #technology #news #wired

The entire BBC In Our Time archive browsable by Dewey-Decimal code? Yes please

I made a website to find old episodes of In Our Time to listen to. There are almost a thousand, it’s my starting point for any new topic

Very early, suggestions welcome

https://genmon.github.io/braggoscope/

I appreciate that people with good/unlimited internet connections don't often care about the size of websites. But it does matter for both the environment and those on limited data plans e.g. my phone has 250MB/month and then have to pay 1p/MB above that.

I monitor UK local authority homepage sizes and, for each, list their biggest resources and give tips on what they could do https://open-innovations.github.io/council-website-emissions/ Usually it is massive images that they could easily optimise.

Wow! My first conference of 2023 and it's looking like a good one!

I hope you can catch my talk, 'Modelling Threats Out In The Open (Source)' at @openuk #SOOCon23 #stateofopencon tomorrow at 4:30pm GMT on the Security Track

Head to https://stateofopencon.com/ to register!

#threatmodeling #cybersecurity #infosec #opensource #appsec #applicationsecurity