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SharePoint Flaws Used to Hack Switzerland’s Federal IT Agency

SharePoint Flaws Used to Hack Switzerland's Federal IT Agency

Swiss Federal IT Agency FOITT says attackers exploited SharePoint flaws to compromise about 200 accounts. Investigation is ongoing.

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Cyber insurer (Chatham house forbids me from saying who) at BH CISO summit: “so far this year 0 payouts for claims even remotely connected to a AI-driven breach, 85% of payouts related to social engineering”. Sobering statistic.

You can now access many more digital laws, not just the GDPR, at the UCL Massively Crossreferenced Digital Laws page: EU: GDPR, DSA, DMA, AI Act, UCPD, NIS2 UK: OSA, DPA18, ...+ Each article/para/recital, links to what-cites-it in int'l cases/statutes/guidance homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucqnmve/law...

michael veale@michae.lv · 6d ago

Parts of the GDPR are cited and interpreted by thousands of pieces of case law and guidance, but there's no easy and free way to find out what. We've made a tool which makes it super easy, for 13,000 citing documents, all in one place. More regulations to come! homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucqnmve/law...

Does a happy dance at all the 🌧️ Humidity just increased by 20% 😓

Yesterday I passed my GIAC GCIL, today involved a trip to the German Consulate in Amsterdam. Wandered past some of the Pride setup and the Rijksmuseum, then a late lunch with a refreshing margarita.

And good luck finding businesses to offer meaningful work experience to hundreds of thousands of 14 and 15 year olds. As ever a failure to acknowledge that our big challenge with vocational ed is our labour market.

Laura McInerney@missmc.bsky.social · last wk.

Don’t worry, I’m sure they’ve thought through how this will be staffed, funded, and the class size implications for GCSE options. They learned that from the last time, right? RIGHT? www.tes.com/magazine/new...

Before 2022, the Internet was routed, hosted, and operated in Tiny Courier Protocol / Invisible Pixies (TCP/IP) facilities. These were hidden in invisible groves and powered entirely by pixie dust. Data centres replaced these magical facilities on November 30, 2022.

Роберт@mrhyperpcs.bsky.social · 2w ago

Interestingly enough the internet functioned perfectly well without data centers for decades. Now we all somehow have to have them? Don’t think so.

"This is not a software business that happens to own servers. It is a real estate business that happens to compute. Real estate cycles break the same way every single time. Not when demand collapses - it rarely does - but when the rate of demand growth decelerates..."

Kevin Marks@kevinmarks.com · 2w ago

This essay is required reading for anyone in UK Government before they get pitched the "buy AI from American companies on long term contracts" by fanboys. You don't want to be the German Landsbanks bagholders of this bubble. www.groundbrkr.com/p/the-second...

gonna tell the girls this was AI when i was little

we can move further and faster than the US by, wait up a second let me check my notes here, adopting a lot of US AI tech and then putting it into all of the below

Zoë Crowther@zoecrowther.bsky.social · 2w ago

The AI minister thinks the UK should focus on being the world's best AI adopter, not the world's best AI model builder He said Britain can move "further and faster" than the US in applying AI across healthcare, public services and the wider economy (3/6)

Passkeys can be stored just like password hashes! I'm proposing an interoperable $webauthn$v=1$… format, and a Go API that uses these passkey records for authentication. I'm looking for feedback before proposing this as crypto/passkey for Go 1.28!

Opaque, Interoperable Passkey Records (and a Go API)

Passkey records are an interoperable format for WebAuthn credentials, similar to password hash strings. I propose a potential crypto/passkey Go API based on them.

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Walking through the Pride Zero Flags Project on Museumplein. Each flag marks one of the countries where homosexuality is still criminalised, every pole ribboned in mourning, every plinth naming the penalty. A sobering reminder that for too many worldwide, the fight for rights remains existential.

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The Secret Barrister@barristersecret.bsky.social · 2w ago

Gabby: What was your highlight of the half time show? Wayne Rooney: When it finished. I thought it was crap. 10/10 punditry. No notes.

See this is why they have their own sports. This kind of razzmatazz is US only. If you got a guy in a gold suit on at a UK match he'd get bottled

It’s been almost 10 years since @ucl.ac.uk started a ‘IoT and gender’ department focused on domestic abuse. And yet, it keeps happening. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgBg...

Gender and the Internet of Things (GIoT) Research Project: Working to tackle tech-abuse - UCL

YouTube video by UCL STEaPP

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Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 2w ago

IBM has created some design principles to address this such as having local controls to override remote settings, but not many other companies are grappling with this

Some notable exceptions but my impression:

My first search engine.

WE’RE HIRING! Editorial all-rounder / Production Lead for @beautifulnews.bsky.social. Freelance, part-time (~3 days/wk), fully remote. Work directly with author David McCandless on optimistic data graphics & stories. Apps close Mon 20 July. Apply geni.us/BNEWS-job-Ju...

Ouch. mindgard.ai/blog/cursor-...

Cursor 0day: When Full Disclosure Becomes the Only Protection Left - Mindgard

The vulnerability nobody seems interested in fixing

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Our brilliant ice cream suppliers, @ourcowmolly.bsky.social have a new project, reMooable Energy. They are turning farm waste into electricity and fertiliser They are trying to raise £600k to get it all up and running and need people to invest, can you spare £5? www.sheffieldenergy.works/remooable

Goodbye @steelcon.info Thanks to the speakers, sponsors, orga, and crew/volunteers for a great event.

Well I’ve spent the whole of #NorEng drawing the three English lions on a tote bag, time well spent even if we don’t win

As a historian professionally interested in comedy, I can confirm Binface is classic British humour drawing on deep satirical traditions, and is thus ‘funny’

Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 4w ago

I don't think I've ever seen a group of people take a joke quite as badly to heart as this lot have this week

The eventual outcome of a Tory PM supporting gender self-ID in 2017 is a Labour government in 2026 enthusiastically presiding over the introduction of the most transphobic legal framework in the western world - without any debate or vote in Parliament For Labour, a moral stain worse than Section 28

Nadia Whittome MP@nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 4w ago

Despite more than 1 in 4 MPs signing my motion against the Code, it is due to come into force without any debate or vote in Parliament. I have written to the Minister for Women and Equalities urging her to withdraw it now. 2/2

Hot take: The worse your organisation is for psychological safety, the more vulnerable it will be to CEO Fraud attacks.

Saw a meme of GenZ baffled by how pre-internet travel worked, and realized we’ve crossed an enshittification threshold where IRL services that once seemed outdated, like travel agents, now seem luxurious: “You meet with a human expert who plans out your whole trip with you” sounds incredible now tbh

Jay Willis@jaywillis.net · 4w ago

You guys are never gonna believe this, but going to a brick-and-mortar running store and getting sized by employees who know what they're doing and can recommend brands and models for you is a WAY better strategy than Googling "Nike running shoes" and buying whatever's on sale

Good news, but the fact that this is only happening now, nearly three years after the cyber attack shows 1) what a huge job BL staff have had rebuilding services, 2) that the BL is underfunded, and 3) the impact this has had on academic research, especially in the humanities.

Digital Scholarship @ British Library@bldigischol.bsky.social · 4w ago

EThOS platform restored! 'Following restoration work, all metadata records previously available on EThOS have now been restored, along with an additional 14,000 records added since the service was taken offline' - more to come https://www.bl.uk/stories/news/ethos-records-restored

Removing funding from the skills we already have shortages of. This isn't going to fix problem, it's going to make it worse. Do I need to sound the UK HIGHER EDUCATION CRISIS KLAXON 📣 again - given its now more of less the default state?

Dumpster Fire

ALT: Dumpster Fire

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Rachel Pope@prehistorian.bsky.social · 4w ago

“In a letter to the Office for Students, which distributes the funding, Bridget Phillipson, the education secretary, said funding should no longer be given to support nursing, computing, history, creative arts, performing arts, archaeology, and geography courses.” removepaywalls.com/https://www....