Weekly Update 489

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This week I’m in Hong Kong, and the day after recording, I gave the talk shown in the image above at INTERPOL’s Cybercrime Expert Group. I posted a little about this on Facebook and LinkedIn, but thought I’d expand on what really stuck with

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Weekly Update 488

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It’s the discussion about the reaction of some people in the UK regarding their impending social media ban for under 16s that bugged me most. Most noteably was the hand-waving around “the gov is just trying to siphon up all our IDs” and “this means

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Weekly Update 487

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I thought Scott would cop it first when he posted about what his solar system really cost him last year. “You’re so gonna get that stupid AI-slop response from some people”, I joked. But no, he got other stupid responses instead! And I got the AI-slop

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Who Decides Who Doesn’t Deserve Privacy?

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Remember the Ashley Madison data breach? That was now more than a decade ago, yet it arguably remains the single most noteworthy data breach of all time. There are many reasons for this accolade, but chief among them is that by virtue of the site being expressly designed to facilitate

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Weekly Update 485

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15 mins and 40 seconds. That’s how long it took to troubleshoot the first tech problem of 2026, and that’s how far you’ll need to skip through this video to hear the audio at normal volume. The problem Scott and I had is analogous

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Processing 630 Million More Pwned Passwords, Courtesy of the FBI

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The sheer scope of cybercrime can be hard to fathom, even when you live and breathe it every day. It’s not just the volume of data, but also the extent to which it replicates across criminal actors seeking to abuse it for their own gain, and to our

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