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Freelance Security & Privacy Journalist. Bylines: @guardian @WIRED @InfosecurityMag @ITPro @Assured_Intel @Forbes. [email protected]

London, England
Joined April 2009
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Despite never entering a national lockdown, Taiwan has remained nearly virus-free. I spoke to @audreyt about how the country did it for @WiredUK wired.co.uk/article/taiwan-c…
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At the weekend we went to a Cavapoo cafe
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This is heartbreaking. She showed remarkable presence of mind and training to convey the info she conveyed while knowing their fate.
Viewer discretion advised. This is a 3 minute real time replay of the Florida Learjet 60 crash, with the uncut ATC audio. It pulls together public ADS-B, weather radar, satellite, dashcam and drone video onto one timeline. Here's what we know as of Nov 2 based on OSINT and today's NTSB briefing: - Went from ~35,000 ft to impact in ~78 seconds - Flew into a string of thunderstorms - Crew reported ice and turbulence; asked to climb then issued a mayday - All nine aboard are deceased, with one person injured on the ground - Plane debris spread across half a mile and still being recovered - NTSB says there is some evidence the jet broke up before impact - Weather at altitude is a key focus of the investigation; but the official cause is still TBD I make a lot of 4D reconstructions and this is the most visceral and gut wrenching thing I’ve heard in a long time. My heart goes out to the families of those on board. Important to note that the details so far point to severe weather at altitude rather than a missile or air defense system.
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Happy Halloween y’all 🐕 🎃
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The fact that the PHP vulnerability didn't immediately turn into mass chaos is only "surprising" to people who don't know anything about cybersecurity (or people trying to sell you something).
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Look everyone it’s the sea
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Loved our trip to Battersea power station yesterday. The sushi was immense 💪🏼🐕
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Honestly made me laugh so much @UK_Daniel_Card @blackroomsec 😂😂😂
Anthropic filing for IPO with $80bn debt
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Off to Battersea today ❤️😍💕🐕
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Morning. I’m having cuddles with this one because it’s my birthday 🎁 and I am not at work
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Actually AI is the tech that has been hyped for years and no one knows exactly what it is. No one wanted this
AI is the tech the world has always wanted
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Cinema time 🥰🐕
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🚨New 0day inbound, windows2shell🚨 Can compromise any Windows host. Potentially 70% of the internet is affected. Tweet-able PoC: cmd.exe/powershell.exe Can’t be patched (/S lulz)
New 0day inbound, wsl2shell 🚨 Can compromise any Windows laptop running VS Code. Potentially 99% of developers affected. PoC: wsl -d Ubuntu Can be removed 👀
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Cyber incidents, #SupplyChain disruption and growing pressure on customer trust. What did 2026 teach us about #Resilience? @KateOflaherty joins Part 2 of our #CyberSecurityAwarenessMonth Phishing For Trouble special to explore the lessons: 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/3T4…
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PUPPY HAPPY PUPPY
Patching PHP? Have a puppy interlude ❤️🥰
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Patching PHP? Have a puppy interlude ❤️🥰
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Great having a power cut when you have two deadlines and only a laptop battery and 5G. 😭
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I wrote this yesterday looking at how likely mass exploitation is for #PHP2SHELL.... pwndefend.com/2026/10/21/how…
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would love to see: The data.
Some stats on #php2shell. In the 10 hours before it was publicly announced, across the @Cloudflare network we saw thousands of attempts to exploit it. That jumped to tens of thousands in the 45 minutes post announcement, hundreds of thousands within 2 hours, and millions now.
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