Turns out FIFA is as good at security as they are at peace prizes… bobdahacker.com/blog/fifa-hack

Creating policies on tech to be banned for politicians from the spring. Details below. Policy being described as “Reality -“ and will also include a curfew for MPs from talking to the press after their first drink.

It’s @bsidesleeds.bsky.social today and ZephrSec sponsoring. Come along to my talk talk at 11.40 in Track 1 all about blending into environments using defensive tools and understanding. Our 10% off coupon is also still live: LTR101-10Y lms.zsec.red

Wearing 2 T-shirts at @bsidesleeds.bsky.social today. Pink one for being a first time goon and a blue one for being a last minute speaker. #BSidesLeeds2026

Fabled model stays mythical as Uncle Sam pulls the plug. I thought short selling only works after a company goes public… www.anthropic.com/news/fable-m...

I had some fun linking together Meta's support AI fail, Microsoft's criminalisation fail, Google's account disablement fail and Zuck's being a human being fail. #WeaklyLink beny23.github.io/posts/weakly...

Please welcome onboard @tracebit.bsky.social as a sponsor for BSides Leeds! 🎉 Tracebit specialises in deception technology, deploying canaries across your environment and helping you proactively detect intrusions.

A reminder for anybody surprised Meta's AI allowed anybody to change anybody else's Instagram account login of this headline a few months ago:

This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

I've written something about Microsoft's apparent stance that not following made up responsible disclosure frameworks is criminal activity. doublepulsar.com/microsofts-s...

It's a day ending in y, so must be time for another npm supply chain attack: www.stepsecurity.io/blog/multipl...

Please welcome onboard th4ts3cur1ty.company as a sponsor for BSides Leeds! 🎉 th4ts3cur1ty.company offer everything from 24/7 SOC & SIEM to vulnerability management to consultancy, all with their business-centric "no nonsense, just defence" approach.

🕹️ SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 🎮️ We're excited to have Kinga Kaiserin presenting their talk 'Is It Safe? Misinformation, Terrorism and the Quest for Safe Chatbots'. Catch Kinga's talk on Track 2, and keep an eye on our website and socials for the full schedule release! #BSidesLeeds #SpeakerAnnouncement

🕹️ SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 🎮️ We're delighted to have James Bore presenting his talk 'The Dungeon Master's Guide to Crisis Management'. Catch James's talk on Track 1, and keep an eye on our website and socials for the full schedule release! #BSidesLeeds #SpeakerAnnouncement

🕹️ SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 🎮️ We're excited to have Dr Z. Cliffe Schreuders presenting his talk 'Hacking Games: From Cyber-Themed Magic to Real Hacking That Moves the Plot'. Catch Cliffe's talk on Track 2, and keep an eye out for the full schedule release! #BSidesLeeds #SpeakerAnnouncement

🕹️ SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 🎮️ We're delighted to have Ken Munro, Founder and Partner at Pen Test Partners, presenting his talk 'Mapping the aviation attack surface: plain text rules the skies'. Catch Ken's talk on Track 1, and keep an eye out for the full schedule release! #BSidesLeeds

Please welcome onboard @semgrep.com as a sponsor for BSides Leeds! 🎉 Semgrep specialises in code security, supporting you to catch, flag, and fix vulnerabilities and bugs as you work. We're absolutely delighted they're involved with this year's event — thank you so much for your support!

🕹️ SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 🎮️ We're delighted to have Georgia Weidman presenting her talk 'Shattering The Perimeter: Exploiting the Modern Mobile Ecosystem'. Catch Georgia's talk on Track 2, and keep an eye on our website and socials for the full schedule release! #BSidesLeeds #SpeakerAnnouncement

🕹️ SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 🎮️ We're excited to have Tom Harrison presenting his talk 'Standing On The Shoulders of Robots - AI for Attackers; Where the **** are we?'. Catch Tom's talk on Track 2, and keep an eye on our website and socials for the full schedule release! #BSidesLeeds

🕹️ SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 🎮️ We're excited to have Denis Legezo, Senior threat hunter at CyberProof, presenting his talk 'DIY CTI: You don't have to wait for vendors all the time to get fresh IoCs'. Catch Denis's talk on Track 2, and keep an eye out for the full schedule release! #BSidesLeeds

It’s been a busy few weeks in security. You wait for ages for a local privilege escalation vulnerability and then two come along at the same time. Rust doesn’t mean automatically secure, GitHub security was bypassed and Gemini scored a perfect 10. #WeaklyLink beny23.github.io/posts/weakly...

🕹️ SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 🎮️ We're delighted to have David-Constantin Dobritoiu presenting his talk 'Closing the Cloud Security Loop: Turning Theoretical Risk into Actionable Defense'. Catch David-Constantin's talk on Track 2, and keep an eye on our website and socials for the full schedule release!

🕹️ SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 🎮️ We're delighted to have Zeshan Sattar presenting his talk 'Building the Future of Robot Security Testing: Expanding Pen Testing Skills for a Cyber Physical World'. Catch Zeshan's talk on Track 2, and keep an eye on our website and socials for the full schedule release!

The Secret's out: I'll be appearing at @bsidesleeds.bsky.social on 13th June to shock, wow, and amaze with... Adventures in Self-hosting: Giving Cloud Storage the Finger, live from Leeds on the 101 Stage.

🕹️ SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 🎮️ We're excited to have Ehren Osborne, a Penetration Tester at KPMG, presenting their talk 'Please, oh please, stick to the RFCs'. Catch Ehren's talk on Track 2, and keep an eye on our website and socials for the full schedule release! #BSidesLeeds #SpeakerAnnouncement

🕹️ SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 🎮️ We're delighted to have Aliyu G. Yisa, Co-Founder at Fezzant, presenting his talk 'Who will secure the 16%? Accessible Security for 1.3 Billion Disabled People'. Catch Aliyu's talk on Track 1, and keep an eye on our website and socials for the full schedule release!

🕹️ SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 🎮️ We're excited to have @laurenspokes4.bsky.social presenting her talk 'The Forensic War on Privacy Advances: Mobile Phones'. Catch Lauren's talk on Track 2, and keep an eye on our website and socials for the full schedule release! #BSidesLeeds #SpeakerAnnouncement

🕹️ SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 🎮️ We're delighted to have Charles Dickinson, Director at EY, presenting his talk 'OT Dungeons & Cyber Dragons'. Catch Charles's talk on Track 1, and keep an eye on our website and socials for the full schedule release! #BSidesLeeds #SpeakerAnnouncement

🕹️ SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 🎮️ We're thrilled to have @insider.phd, Security Advocate at Semgrep, presenting her talk 'Creative Use of Game Mechanics, Game Hacking that isn't TECHNICALLY Hacking'. Catch Katie's talk on Track 1, and keep an eye on our website and socials for the full schedule release!

🕹️ SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 🎮️ We're excited to have Anicet Fopa Tchoffo, Security Consultant at University of Leeds, presenting his talk 'Security Hardening Isn’t the Hard Part'. Catch Anicet's talk on Track 2, and keep an eye on our website and socials for the full schedule release! #BSidesLeeds

🕹️ SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 🎮️ We're excited to have Isaac Potts, Penetration Tester at KPMG UK, presenting his talk 'Turning CTF skills into Pentesting skills'. Catch Isaac's talk on the 101 Track, and keep an eye on our website and socials for the full schedule release! #BSidesLeeds

🕹️ SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 🎮️ We're delighted to have @vicharkness.bsky.social, Security Consultant, presenting her talk 'Baby Burp Suite'. Catch Vic's talk on the 101 Track, and keep an eye on our website and socials for the full schedule release! #BSidesLeeds #SpeakerAnnouncement

🕹️ SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 🎮️ We're delighted to have Dan Houghton, Penetration Tester at Pen Test Partners, presenting his talk 'Malware Slop: Bypassing Skill Issues with Vibe Coded Trojans'. Catch Dan's talk on Track 1, and keep an eye on our website and socials for the full schedule release!

🕹️ SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 🎮️ We're excited to have @seccomet.com, Senior Cyber Security Analyst at Capgemini, presenting his talk 'Adventures in Self-hosting'. Catch Jason's talk on the 101 Track, and keep an eye on our website and socials for the full schedule release! #BSidesLeeds

🕹️ SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 🎮️ We're thrilled to have @qhazeeem.bsky.social presenting his talk 'Designing for Breach: Combining Ring-Fencing and Zero Trust'. Catch Kazeem's talk on the 101 Track, and keep an eye on our website and socials for the full schedule release! #BSidesLeeds

🕹️ SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 🎮️ We're delighted to have John Follin, Director at Holus Creative, presenting his talk 'Making Shor - Cybersecurity in a Quantum World'. Catch John's talk on the 101 Track, and keep an eye on our website and socials for the full schedule release! #BSidesLeeds

🕹️ SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 🎮️ We're delighted to have @daddythebaddie.bsky.social and @wildpark.bsky.social presenting 'Red Carding the Auditor: Winning the Game of Pragmatic Security'. Catch Leum and John's talk on Track 1, and keep an eye on our website and socials for the full schedule release!

🕹️ SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 🎮️ We're excited to have @zephrfish.yxz.red presenting his talk 'Archaic Creativity: Pulling At Infinite Threads'. Catch Andy's talk on Track 1, and keep an eye on our website and socials for the full schedule release! #BSidesLeeds #SpeakerAnnouncement

🎲 SIDE QUEST UNLOCKED: ASK ME ANYTHING 🎲 Got a cyber question? Career question? Random weird tech rabbit-hole question? Come find the AMA Desk at BSides Leeds and roll for answers. Our party might not know everything immediately (nobody does), but we’ll work together to figure it out.

🕹️ SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 🎮️ We're excited to have Lisa Belmonte Diaz, Strategic Solutions Consultant at th4ts3cur1ty.company, presenting her talk 'Security Theatre For Your Board'. Catch Lisa's talk on the 101 Track, and keep an eye on our website and socials for the full schedule release!

🕹️ SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 🎮️ We're thrilled to have Chris Traynor, Owner/Instructor at Ridgeback Information Security, LLC, presenting his talk 'Cerno: One Tool to Triage, Orchestrate, and Track'. Catch Chris's talk on the 101 Track, and keep an eye out for the full schedule release!

Utterly shameful www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Last ticket drop for @bsidesleeds.bsky.social is open now. This is your last chance to not miss out. No time to ask the audience or phone a friend now. Get yours before theyre sold out.

What do you mean Anthropic won’t release its latest GenAI cybersecurity model because it’s too dangerous? They’re offering it in bulk at Tesco’s! #mythos

Listening to infosec people freak out over Mythos is so tiring. Like, bro, your local water treatment plant runs Windows XP, your mobile provider's hardware is older than you are, and the protocol that routes internet traffic is secured by everyone just agreeing that hijacking it would be uncool.

This week we’ve got Firefox overhyping Mythos. We’ve got indications that GenAI vendors think they need to show some way of putting the right numbers on the balance sheet and look at simpler times. Both in past and in future. Let’s dive (no not delve) in. #WeaklyLink beny23.github.io/posts/weakly...

The @ietf.org has let the cat out of the bag www.ietf.org/archive/id/d...

A slightly delayed episode of the weakly link. This time, we have a bit of a special outlook on the future in security to do with Quantum and AI. #WeaklyLink beny23.github.io/posts/weakly...

The peril of laziness lost bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/04/12/t...