Out now. A new episode of "Smashing Security" podcast! This week's special guest... @quentyn.bsky.social ! Polymarket claims to predict the future - so how did it fail to spot its own million hack? Plus someone allegedly gets caught trying to rig a weather bet with a hairdryer. 1/2

PLUS... we dig into "FortiBleed" - 75,000 Fortinet firewall credentials cracked at industrial scale, with an impact that will last for years. Find it in all good podcast apps! grahamcluley.com/smashing-sec... 2/2

thank @grahamcluley.com absolute pleasure to be part of this ! great to catch up with you

Good news. The export controls are lifted. Defenders will regain access to #Anthropic #Fable5 & we can resume our work with the latest #AI models available

Woot! Channel 5 to show daily Tour de France highlights – plus live free-to-air coverage of next year’s UK Grand Départ - Cycling News | Bike Reviews | road.cc share.google/eU8gK9i9vRHR... Its only the highlights but that's fine by me

the BBC CISO role open if anyone is interested www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44...

www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2... I would actually support banning everybody irrespective of age :)

BREAKING: In a hugely popular move, Sir Keir Starmer to announce LinkedIn ban for over 16s

Did a little cycle ride today,

All this to fix one issue on my bike ! Can you guess what I was fixing from what's out :)

No US Cyber Force this year New cyber military branch was voted out of the NDAA in a Senate committee therecord.media/cyber-force-...

Secretive Chinese network tries to lure fired federal workers, research shows. https://www.reuters.com/world/china/secretive-chinese-network-tries-lure-fired-federal-workers-research-shows-2025-03-25/

For anyone who saw the famous wall on Reddit the other day - behold the worst wall to have ever been laid - it is a crime against brickwork

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...

163km in and still a few hours left

Happy #ThreadsDay for those of us who celebrate. Remember your Nuclear Immediate Action Drill and always Be in Time, Mask in Nine… #ColdWar #NuclearWar

India's CERT issued a super-strict patching guideline, with patch times for actively exploited bugs of 12h or 24h, depending on the software's location on a network (internet or internal-facing) CERT-IN cited the rise in AI-assisted attacks for the new rules www.cert-in.org.in/s2cMainServl...

Yesterday I emptied the drinks cabinet. (By giving it away) No one in this house has had a drink several years now, and if we have friends around I'll buy when I need. It's weird my kids are going to grow up in a totally alcohol-free environment.

Eventually cycled 160k today - not the hardest of rides as it was only about 1300 meters of elevation. Either I'm getting fitter or the climbs are getting easier. Ivanhoe beacon one of the highest climbs around here was actually *fun* - the heat was brutal though.

#cycling cafe stop - 50k in so stopping for an extended cafe stop at the Chiltern Velo cafe (really, really recommended)

I’ve done something terrible

If Mr Farage wants people to believe his phone was hacked by hostile actors “almost certainly linked to Moscow”, normal practice would be for the experts who examined the phone to be named (or at least their company) alongside some published technical evidence 1/2 www.dailymail.com/news/article...

Something that pleased me greatly today, was seeing 15 red tailed kites circling over a field. They used to be extinct in the UK and now you can see huge numbers of them occasionally. It's good when you show that something can come back from extinction. Gives one hope

Bug bounties never were going to have a long-term future. It had a bit too much of the "get rich quick" attached to it. Some people made a very good income and probably will continue but they're not selling their bugs to the bounty programs

The Internet Bug Bounty program (still paused btw) has cut rewards by up to 75%

New breach: 7-Eleven was targeted by the ShinyHunters extortion group last month, with 185k email addresses related to franchisees impacted. Data also included name, physical address, phone number and DoB. 53% were already in @haveibeenpwned.com. Read more: haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/7-Ele...

You know it's a good cycle when you drink 3l of rehydration fluid when you get home and it doesn't even touch the sides !

Anyway here's an idea for @ledbydonkeys.org The queues at Dover are massive. Maybe put a poster of a smiling Nigel Farage looking down on it all for the rest of the summer.

It's hot today - how to break out the sleeveless cycling top! Never really gets used in the UK but today it was needed

In one way I am really impressed - I mean this takes quite some guts

I do wonder if the people who record bands on their phones (often whole chunks of songs) if they ever watch them back ? Be in the moment people - watch and listen and enjoy. Get a photo, record some video. Recording 10+ mins of a set just irritates people behind you #oldmanshoutingatclouds

Enyd blyton for the modern age ? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Lads, Harry Hill is a legend

When you get your race pack through the post and you suddenly realize " I have to do that now!" This is going to be a long day

VulnCheck has noted a common trend this year, with new CVEs exploding for some vendors, a clear sign of more vulnerabilities being discovered with the help of AI tools www.vulncheck.com/blog/ai-assi...

Hackney half done ! Paced a friend before being unleashed so 1:46

Exclusive: Fast16 malware has raised questions about what it was designed to do. Researchers at Symantec finally confirm it was subverting software used to simulate nuclear weapons explosions. Nuclear experts also tell me Iran was the likely target and explain how it impacted nuclear weapons tests

Repost if you’d like me to represent the UK at #Eurovision 2027.

Got a notification from a medieval copyright lawyer

I have no idea why my weekly shop has got so expensive recently! I only buying a kilo of steak !

New piaware antenna installed

I asked co-pilot to regenerate an exploit for a different architecture today. It told me absolutely no way could it do this. Gemini had absolutely zero problems in creating not only the code but a whole user guide on how to use it ! I've not actually tested if it works but it looks credible

I'm amazed by the number of fraud issues that information security people deal with that are nothing to do with information security and are just failures of basic financial controls. Infosec people - have the courage to talk to internal audit at point out where the control failures are.

do you think if you pointed Mythos at the ivanti code base the world would dim due to the increased power consumption or would the AI agent suddenly develop a sense of humor and laugh www.securityweek.com/fortinet-iva...

1st it was stop the boats, now its stop the flying saucers #illegalaliens no alien is illegal. If one of them asks "take me to your leader" I hope its not in a reform led council area otherwise humanity is in trouble

Best Western Hotels had a data breach old.reddit.com/r/bestwester...

Thank you #KatieArchibald @britishcycling.org.uk Nursing is lucky to have you, and you'll be brilliant www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/m...

12k ride tonight and only 1 car driver (black Evoque) tried to kill me.... Pulled out and narrowly missed me then tried to squeeze me against the pavement. What's depressing is that the driver didn't even realise I was there they were so focussed on their phone conversation...

ICO fines South Staffordshire £963K over 2022 breach share.google/LEOZ2C6MkO0x... interesting that the fine was also due to "Running unsupported software, including Windows Server 2003"