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Kevin Beaumont
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Cybersecurity weather person and award winning shitposter. Shitposting is an anagram of Top Insights. You may be surprised to know I am not representing my employer here and these are not their opinions. I have Direct Messages disabled - you can send them, but I will never receive them.

nostr:npub137gj98wecfu6yc0683ctqz5jus8jtsst26l6a4mu8ynjc6xgw0qss4349g it’s enabled by default, and IT department can force enable or disable it.

nostr:npub1dstzd8phf3m7g7460m3j96xmu98n5u4qpzqzkuughlvnekv4gpvs6canzg for what it’s worth, I can’t see any sign data leaves the device, including telemetry or metadata

US no longer in top 20 of world's happiest countries and is now behind Kuwait, Lithuania, UAE https://abcnews.go.com/US/us-longer-top-20-worlds-happiest-countries-now/

I wonder who will win the election in Russia today, might be a tight one.

MarineMax filed an 8-K for a “cybersecurity incident” (their quotes 🤣) https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1057060/000095017024030041/hzo-20240310.htm

Always been too intimidated about trying to make a video game but today I looked at the PlayStation Store.

It shouldn't have taken the government over a day to work out the comments were racist.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68548389

nostr:npub1q3nfu7wxxfzuxfxxaw2sds6vqgtxndqf6m255zvthy866g9k4r7q03a20k lack of staffing is part of the reason. Basing themselves in Dubai is partly driven by their number of staff.

nostr:npub1mq5d9xeyg8mfpdkg7kq2rl0lwz2trzcuj9keghhn2w5h95wqd2espmsmmd they would find it very hard - Telegram is the only major platform that allows this kind of thing at scale.

Leicester City Council remains offline, from my automated monitoring, from their ransomware incident. A person in the council tells me they’ve been told not to admit it is ransomware by central government.

The BBC reports they expect to return mid week. My take - very unlikely they will get back online mid week.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leicestershire-68533743

The image people have of criminal hackers is one of hoodies, lurking in the dark, living on the unseeable ‘dark web’ etc…

Whereas a great many of them operate on Telegram nowadays. Either running public groups where they document all their exploits, or in open chat channels selling access etc.

If you’re wondering why Telegram doesn’t clap down on it, they have 1 billion active users today, and 50 staff members. Equates to one staff member for 20 million people.

Gaza medics tell BBC that Israeli troops beat and humiliated them after hospital raid https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68513408