My kind of career ladder!

Our CFP is now open. We aren't just looking for 1337 tech talks, we want social skills, admin, defence, and all sorts to give us a nice rounded day. Any questions, please ask. forms.gle/JRrZQZojtbGQ...

This week we’re looking at how some of the traditional thinking on security (detect it, patch it, monitor it) is no longer quite cutting it. It’s not a technology problem, it’s a social (engineering) problem… #WeaklyLink beny23.github.io/posts/weakly...

Our CfP is open! We’ve hinted at it. We’ve teased it. Now it’s official. The BSides Leeds 2026 theme is Game On. tinyurl.com/leedscfp26 But be quick - our CFP is only open until the end of this month!

Criminally funny, but also I'm crying inside Norway comes for the #TechBros www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree vimeo.com/1168468796?f...

This week: supply chains. How AI is both a blessing and a curse for open source, how there’s a new sandworm attacking npm, how de-Americanisation of cloud is not easy and we also learn about an exciting new Agile certification. Sarcasm may be involved. #WeaklyLink beny23.github.io/posts/weakly...

Because consultancies never sell you something you don’t actually need… perfect fit!

The shitposting identity

I’m not sure what this LinkedIn promoted post was advertising and I don’t think I want to find out.

A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Correct speeling is a security superpoewr: don’t get caught out by the latest typosquatting npm supply chain worm.

This week we’re looking at the impact of drugs on viruses, drugs on AI models, drug-addled bot behaviour and how the mainstream is catching up with AI Agent concerns. Oh, and some badly-drawn horses. #WeaklyLink beny23.github.io/posts/weakly...

I genuinely cannot believe the degree to which we are pissing away this generational breakthrough, even given the fuckmuppets who are involved www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

This week, we're having a bit of a wild west theme to the GenAI related links. There's continuing hype around OpenClaw - though it looks more like a hangover than a party. And we'll end up with a cryptic warning from a siren. #WeaklyLink beny23.github.io/posts/weakly...

This week it's about autonomous AI bots going crazy: Moltbook is so hot it leaves behind molten agents. Of course, there’s a decent sprinkling of security issues where once again the usual suspects prove that security vendors are bad at securing software. #WeaklyLink beny23.github.io/posts/weakly...

LinkedIn, the social network where even dead monarchs reach out to you.

Now that iOS is on 26.2 it should be safe to update. Apple: hold my beer.

It’s been a busy week, hasn’t it? Fascism is on the rise and AI too. But it’s not all bad news… We’re looking at how magic strings and parameter injection can be bad, how mad AI coding is and how optimism is doomed. Did I say not all bad? #weaklylink beny23.github.io/posts/weakly...

Share photographs of maintains you’ve taken.

“I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of peace.”

This week’s installment of my LinkBlog covers old tech that is new, operational tech that is secure, observability that is not expensive and a series of vulnerabilities for us to snigger at, then take a breath and take seriously. #WeaklyLink beny23.github.io/posts/weakly...

The wiz kids have done it again - very entertaining writeup: www.wiz.io/blog/wiz-res...

Love to see this kind of transparency from Agile on the Beach about their CFP: agileonthebeach.com/aotb-2026-ca...

In this edition, we hear about how to break US tech dominance, how your mate's phone can infect your TV when they pop round and some more AI insecurities. #weaklylink beny23.github.io/posts/weakly...

Needing to throttle Pro and Business while Pro+ and Enterprise is fine? Sounds like a cost saving incident to me ;-)

Learning from history has never been humanities strong point ;-) No GenAI doesn’t solve the coding bottleneck. Very enjoyable piece by Rob! Might just have to print it out and roll up. Would make a good stick to beat people with… (in a non-aggressive way of course)

greetings from hell

Like any blog post at New Year’s, we’ll be looking to the future. We’ll also check our assumptions and we’ve got some security content before looking at a website to destroy all websites. beny23.github.io/posts/weakly... #weaklylink #linkblog

Smash the social media oligopoly!

“The oxygen of publicity this year has mostly been consumed by our two-lettered friend, AI. There's no reason to think this will change in 2026. [..] here's a world where that's not true, a world where other things are happening that will shape the future. We like to call it the real world...” 🤣👏

In this festive edition we do what we usually do during the holidays: focus on the latest vulnerabilities that ruin our Christmas and some advice on slowing things down. Enjoy! beny23.github.io/posts/weakly...

At the gpg.fail talk and omg #39c3 You can just put a \0 in the Hash: header and then newlines and inject text in a cleartext message. Won’t even blame PGP here. C is unsafe at any speed. gpg has not fixed it yet.

Weekly summary is out... ctoatncsc.substack.com/p/cto-at-ncs...

patch ye MongoDB, there's an exploit for a vuln which has been in the product for over a decade that allows the remote, unauth read of any memory - which includes plaintext creds. Somebody posted an exploit on Christmas Day, Merry Christmas! doublepulsar.com/merry-christ...

The American anus horribilis, wonder who that refers to ;-)

Let's play Who Said It, AI Hyper or The Borg? "Embrace the inevitable." "Knowledge is irrelevant unless shared." "We are the future." "This is the next stage of evolution." "Your resources will be repurposed." "We are the sum of all species." "Your technology is obsolete."

In this week's link collection, we look at incidents, get another SVG surprise and we've got good, bad and ugly stories about vibe coding. beny23.github.io/posts/weakly...

@quinnypig.com in @theregister.com writing about an AWS keynote. Has snarkmas come early? www.theregister.com/2025/12/08/a...

This week, we celebrate Let's Encrypt's birthday, look at exotic vulnerabilities and get serious about the exploitative nature of GenAI. #WeaklyLink beny23.github.io/posts/weakly...

The latest weakly link reacts to react4shell and finds coffee will prevent the rise of the machines. beny23.github.io/posts/weakly...

This week’s link blog is an odd mixture about sandworms, supply chains and basically how everything is broken anyway. And then (after all the naughtiness) let’s end on something nice. beny23.github.io/posts/weakly...

These words are insulting to weasels.

This week on my link blog: bureaucracy, bugs, reliability and those pesky 5 nines. beny23.github.io/posts/weakly...

Oh no, what will @kevlin.bsky.social do now? www.theregister.com/2025/11/18/w...

It’s wasn’t DNS. Wait what?!? blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-...

Unite in opposition?

Latest edition of my link blog - the weakly link - is now out. This time there is fire. Well, dumpster fires. Unsurprisingly, there's some AI commentary. beny23.github.io/posts/weakly...

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