James Atack

@jamesatack.com

Cyber defender with an offensive name. Deputy CTO at @onyphe.io | http://onyphe.io Managing your attack surface... from Europe 👀 Opinions : all mine Special skill : machine empathy

Your reminder that fairy tales are full of stepmothers because women once routinely died in childbirth, from postpartum sepsis, or from other infectious diseases and left behind housefuls of motherless children. Stable nuclear families are made possible by vaccines, antibiotics, and safe abortions.

Catherine Frieman@cjfrieman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

One reason i think everyone should take an archaeology class is to internalise with tangible examples that there is no pure, natural past utopia and that antibiotics and vaccines are what stand between us and a 50% child mortality rate and scores of women dying needlessly during pregn and birth

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

🇪🇺LAGARDE MAY EXIT ECB EARLY Christine Lagarde is reportedly considering stepping down as president of the European Central Bank before her term ends in October 2027, according to the Financial Times. The report says she may leave before France’s presidential election next

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

Wowzers, another perfect 10 from Cisco on Secure Email Gateway, Secure Mail, and Web Manager. This one has: - RCE - No patch - No workaround - No public IoCs Recommendation is to reimage to a known-good config. Whatever that is, without indicators. Good luck I guess??

Cisco Security Advisory: Reports About Cyberattacks Against Cisco Secure Email Gateway And Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager

On December 10, Cisco became aware of a new cyberattack campaign targeting a limited subset of appliances with certain ports open to the internet that are running Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Secu...

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"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."

How to explain AI to your family this holiday season | CNN Business

Politics, football and movies are among the many topics that tend to come up around Thanksgiving. In 2025, a new question may arise at the table: Why the heck is everyone talking about AI, and what sh...

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At the EU Summit on Digital Sovereignty, the US internet service Cloudflare is sponsoring today's side event "Digital Resilience: Between Aspiration and Reality." /s

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