Personal BCP
Occasionally I'll think about a personal BCP. I've never lost my phone - but if you have then you'll know why I'm thinking about it. I don't carry a wallet anymore. Everything is contactless. Money, train or flight tickets? All
Gary Shewan
Online Safety Bill Concerns
Oh this is going to be a nasty car crash.
“God, I wish we had been a lot more vociferous. The legislation sounded so outlandish that I thought surely someone else would step up and shoot it down. We clearly should have been in the room but there was no-one
Solarwinds investigation
Quite a debate about this:
“The US SEC has roiled the cybersecurity industry by putting executives of SolarWind on notice that it may pursue legal action for violations of federal law in connection with their response to the 2020 attack on the company’s infrastructure that affected thousands of customers
Ransomware updates
Some interesting figures here on ransomware events:
* Only 4% of ransomware victims recover all their data
* Only 61% recover data at all
* Typical experience is 25 days of disrupted business
There are no end of products and services to defend/protect against this. But how many decades have we had
Working with LLMs
I’ve followed Rui Carmo for more years than I’d care to remember. I laughed out loud at his latest post trying to get a tool which gives GPT a harness to use web search and scraping.
Notes from the AutoGPT FrontierToday is a bank holiday, so I had
Solarwinds supply chain attack
Excellent article by Kim Zetter in Wired breaking down the SolarWinds supply-chain attack. It does make your blood run cold a little. Two year dwell time, and a bit of luck in discovering it. Lovely nightmare fuel.
The Untold Story of the Boldest Supply-Chain Hack EverThe attackers were in thousands
Lawyers - be careful
Last thing before I enjoy the Bank Holiday weekend. This is too timely and incredible after my last post.
A cautious tale - be wary of technology trends. A lawyer in a Federal appeal case in the US used ChatGPT for legal research. It made up cases…which were then