AI Deepfakes have gone too far !!! Last night I watched what was supposedly an international soccer game. What gave it away as AI Deepfake was that in the video of the game Ireland were playing Portugal and Ireland won the game 2 - 0 !! On top of that Ronaldo got sent off!!

Europe's IT spend to surge 11% as cloud sovereignty fever takes hold

Rain continues and private weather station near Roundwood in Wicklow already up to 22mm since midnight. A lot more rain to come!

Pt 4 of Bible Opsec is released, catch it here; www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNNy... Francis Walsingham, Elizabeth I's spymaster, trapped Mary, Queen of Scots, via the Babington Plot. He intercepted her coded letters, sealing her fate. #history #espionage #elizabethi #documentary

Double blow to synthetic drugs trafficking: Europol supports authorities from Bulgaria, Czechia, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Romania & Moldova in two major operations targeting criminal networks. Read more in our press release: www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/...

Which one is more English?

Stay safe out there folks

Almost a quarter of a million people living in the UK applied for an Irish passport last year, the highest number since the UK formally left the European Union

TIL that when an Irishman says his physics teacher "was a brother", they don't mean a black guy.

Checking the web, dns & email security of 557 domains / law firms in Norway using internet.nl: www.linkedin.com/pulse/intern...

On a dramatic night in Dublin, Troy Parrott struck a first-half brace to secure a remarkable 2-0 World Cup qualifying victory for Ireland against Portugal at Aviva Stadium

I'm told one of youse made that rapist cry is that right

God bless Troy Parrot.

Life moves pretty fast

Lookit...I'm just sayin...just doesn't feel like a coincidence is all. #COYBIG #Ireland #Leftie #Speirgorm #VoteLeft

When you realise the rules do apply to you 🤣 #COYBIG

Not going to have much of my fingernails left after this game #COYBIG

:)

Geopolitics push European CIOs to think local on cloud

This has been confirmed today: operation-endgame.com Europol took down servers for the Rhadamanthys infostealer, the VenomRAT, and the Elysium botnet

I often think about how one of my first stories for ZDNet back in 2016 was about a ransomware attack against a County Council with a ransom demand of £500. Almost a decade later and the financial - and real world - impact of ransomware has just got much worse.

Extraordinary day and historic for the wrong reasons - a cyber attack featured in the GDP figures

Cult of the Dead Cow (@cultdeadcow.bsky.social) book signed by all the people who put up with me when I was a young punk kid 🥰

VLC's keeper of the cone nets European free software gong

Bosses will resign, right?

It wouldn't hurt to try, tbh.

NEW: Google is taking legal action against Chinese cybercriminals responsible for sending out millions of scam text messages—including those parcel delivery scams. Google hopes the lawsuit will help to disrupt the scammers' sprawling infrastructure

We're already thinking about VB2026 and we want to hear from YOU! ✨ What would you love to see at next year's conference? Different topics? New formats? Wild ideas? Share your wishes and suggestions in the VB2026 Wish Machine. 👇 tinyurl.com/y2ppm2jy

This is good news! I don’t think people realize how easy it is to get started in delivering malware. Rhadamanthys was $299 a month, so for less than a car payment for most people you could potentially collect hundreds of thousands of emails/credit card numbers/wallets a month.

Your regular reminder that cyber criminals give scum bags a bad name

'In one of the messages, Mr. Epstein flatly asserted that Mr. Trump “knew about the girls,” many of whom were later found by investigators to have been underage. In another, Mr. Epstein pondered how to address questions from the news media about their relationship.' www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

Day One for Catherine Connolly and Michael D Higgins’s (endearing) famously messy desk is no more!

My husband bought me a gingham shirt (I know), which I wore to work (I know). During the day, I had to deliver some paperwork to another office. Someone there, seeing my get-up, lol'd and asked if I was about to do some line dancing. Dear reader, I was roasted by Enda flippin' Kenny. It still burns.

House Democrats release emails that allege #Trump knew about #Epstein's crimes - www.theguardian.com/us-news/live... "Epstein wrote that “of course he knew about the girls”, referring to the now-president"

This is an amazing and very funny thread. Grab a coffee and enjoy :)

"Essential services are now digital by default, leaving many older people feeling locked out of their own lives." As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly. jrnl.ie/6864189

Catherine Connolly will be officially declared the country's tenth president at an inauguration ceremony in Dublin Castle today

Bank of England has confirmed the Jaguar Land Rover ransomware attack impacted the UK's GDP growth, as the government first claimed back in August www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-pol...

A final statement from President Higgins tonight as he leaves the Áras

Michael D Higgins, with his wife Sabina, has left Áras an Úachtaráin for the final time as president. He was given a guard of honour by members of the Sanctuary Runners, a charity of which he is patron. The President’s term of office ends at midnight. ⁦‪@VirginMediaNews.bsky.social

He will be missed

The Central Bank has issued a warning about an increase in artificial intelligence being used to create realistic social media ads and profiles impersonating public or business figures

Sometimes controversial, strongly opinionated, but never dull, Michael D Higgins' 14-year term as Uachtarán na hÉireann comes to an end this week after many historic moments that helped define modern-day Ireland

Ireland is in favour of Europe’s bid to break encryption to allow police pursue serious crime (particularly CSAM), via the proposed ‘Chat Control’ law. But EU countries are starting to turn against the idea, with Germany calling it “unjustified chat monitoring”. m.independent.ie/business/tec...

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Here's my latest edition of this.weekinsecurity.com, with all the cyber news you need to know from the week, including: SonicWall's firewall data breach, CBO gets hacked, Korea Telecom's very bad breach, hackers hijacking real-world cargo, Nevada's hack post-mortem, and more. Plus: a new cybercat!