Joining the Secure Code Warrior CTF at #BSidesBirmingham? Get set early 👇 portal.securecodewarrior.com#/register/48... #BSidesBrum26

🚩 CTF Partner at #BSidesBirmingham 2026 Welcome Secure Code Warrior as our CTF partner 🙌 Expect great challenges and prizes 👀 Whether you’re new or experienced, it’s worth getting involved. 💻 Bring a laptop (WiFi available) 🎥 lnkd.in/eWgFztPX

It's World Backup Day 🗂️ Phone in the canal — what would you lose? Short, no-jargon guide covering photos, iCloud, and Time Machine. One more layer than you have today. Pass it on. 👉 jonathanstrong.org/posts/world-backup-day/ #WorldBackupDay #Backups #Privacy #CyberSecurity

I’ve had a lot of love for Trivy over the years. I’ve used it both locally and in CI pipelines via @github.com Actions. Given last week’s supply chain incident, I wanted to share my own experience — and a lot of it applies to any GitHub Action, not just Trivy. jonathanstrong.org/posts/trivy-...

The signal has been confirmed. 📡 0121 (13:21) 🎟 BSides Birmingham tickets are now live. Grab yours before they disappear - bit.ly/3NbjxPN #BSides #BSidesBirmingham

Tool Review: Tailsnitch https://isc.sans.edu/diary/32602

🚨Brum 2600 delayed a week🚨 For anyone expecting to meet up tomorrow, we decided to move it back a week given it is the day after New Year’s Day. So next Brum 2600 meetup is Friday 9th January 2026 @2600brumbtek.bsky.social

This Friday! It's 2600 time!! 👾 Birmingham 2600 Meetup 📍 The Wellington, Bennetts Hill 🗓️ First Friday of every month 🕡 6:30PM 🍻 Hackers, devs, students, curious minds welcome No agenda—just great convo, pub vibes, & tech talk 🔗 5 min walk from New St 📲 @2600brumbtek.bsky.social 💻 #2600Meetup

📢 Announcing hacklore.org 📢 It’s time to retire outdated cyber advice! More than 80 cybersecurity veterans have signed an open letter urging a shift from folklore to guidance that actually helps people avoid the most common attacks. 🔐 Blog: medium.com/@boblord/let... Site: www.hacklore.org

Hello! Another update for the October 2600 meeting We have a guest speaker!! Their name: Andrea J. Title - “threat modelling” #infosec #cybersecurity #IT #threatmodling #twentysixhundred

This Friday! It's 2600 time!! 👾 Birmingham 2600 Meetup 📍 The Wellington, Bennetts Hill 🗓️ First Friday of every month 🕡 6:30PM 🍻 Hackers, devs, students, curious minds welcome No agenda—just great convo, pub vibes, & tech talk 🔗 5 min walk from New St 📲 @2600brumbtek.bsky.social 💻 #2600Meetup

Hello 👋 It's that time again!, if you want to host a talk at the next Brum2600 meeting please submit ideas to me and I will ensure the conference room is booked out. Please scan the QR to join the discord! Next meeting time is Oct 4th @ 6:30pm The location is The Wellington Bennetts Hill

This Friday! It's 2600 time!! 👾 Birmingham 2600 Meetup 📍 The Wellington, Bennetts Hill 🗓️ First Friday of every month 🕡 6:30PM 🍻 Hackers, devs, students, curious minds welcome No agenda—just great convo, pub vibes, & tech talk 🔗 5 min walk from New St 📲 @2600brumbtek.bsky.social 💻 #2600Meetup

A litle bit later than planned, but our tenth birthday video playlist is finally available. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Thanks to @ministraitor.bsky.social for all his hard work in getting them online.

Who else has got a ticket and is coming? Who wants to come and still needs a ticket?

This evening in Brum #2600Meetings or find your local one at www.2600.com/meetings and @2600meetings.bsky.social

If anyone is around in Brum Friday evening, pop along.

The petition to repeal the #onlinesafetyact has now passed 310,000 signatures, making it the third largest petition so far this Parliament. https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722903 https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions?state=all

Run your own email server? Or at least configure your own email domain? SPF, DKIM and DMARC are all worth setting up. Here is a fab site that tests your settings and walks you through it. www.learndmarc.com Thanks to @freddieleeman.bsky.social

Got tech friends? Or at least friends? Share the latest episode with them! 🤖 The future’s not so bright and we’re breaking it down. 📱💡 Let’s spread the knowledge! #TechPodcast #ShareTheLove EP 705: Vibe Defunding gog.show/705 #podcast

Make our voice heard at the Apple encryption hearing! On the sly, the UK government tried to force a backdoor into the firewall that protects your privacy. We made the hearing public. Now we need to win ✊ Donate now to fund legal representation ⬇️ #e2ee action.openrightsgroup.org/make-our-voi...

While you are sat with your feet up recovering, why not add you photos to this year's album to help us all remember the wild and wacky stuff that went on: photos.app.goo.gl/ucd7XPVSFc4s...

NEW POST Threat modeling need not be a specialized activity. Gayathri Mohan and @jimgumbley.com update his 2020 article explaining how dev teams can do this little and often - and how it can be applied to platform teams. martinfowler.com/articles/agi...

Encryption IS online safety 💡 Keeping data secure is key when hackers are skilled at unpicking accounts. So why does the UK government want to make us unsafe by ordering a backdoor to Apple encrypted services? ✍️ Sign to save encryption this #SaferInternetDay. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ke...

NEW: Apple said it "can no longer" offer iCloud end-to-end encryption in the UK, and turned off the option to enable it for new users in the country. The unprecedented move comes after the British government demanded a backdoor into Apple's cloud service. techcrunch.com/2025/02/21/a...

oh lord, I ended up having to write something about what's going on with Apple's Advanced Data Protection - what it is, what it does, and what happens now for UK users. www.ianbetteridge.com/apples-advan...

When governments compel organizations to weaken security, no one wins. This compromise for Apple makes users in the U.K. less safe, and signals to other regions how to also embarrass themselves by doing the same. techcrunch.com/2025/02/21/a...

Okay, so you're using Signal for encrypted messaging. Cool. It's a good time to use usernames instead of a phone number to talk to people. That and lots more about how to make the most of Signal's security features in here: freedom.press/digisec/blog...

Each year we try and raise some money for charity, this year is no different. The attendees for #BSidesLDN2024 have graciously donated and the Just Giving page (thanks Rosie) is still live. We give it a few days in case you wish to donate and post the final sum of the cash, card and JG donations.

1 more sleep until #BsidesLDN2024

We have just managed to free up some more tickets for #BSidesLDN2024, when they are gone, they are gone! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bsides-lon... Please be a team player and remember to cancel your ticket if you can no longer be there on the day! #Security #BSides #London #Tickets

Labelers is a great feature, there is one to add and view pronouns too www.theverge.com/24295933/blu...

This is your reminder that DMs here are _not encrypted_. They're not even really part of ATProto. It's on the roadmap, but that's not the case now. DMs are centralized and unencrypted. Behave accordingly.

That time of year again.... Time to get another Cyber Monday bargain (tip, check you don't already own the book or are enrolled in that course from last years deal 😂) github.com/0x90n/InfoSe... is an excellent resource that is still being updated as new deals come out.

If you haven't already, head to Settings>Privacy and Security - then turn on Email 2FA. Any time you log into a new device you will be emailed a code to enter. Helps keep your account safe. (Yes email isn't great, but better than nothing)