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Posted on 5 December 20235 December 2023

Has Sellafield been hacked?

The UK Government denies that Sellafield, the nuclear research and processing site located on the Cumbria coast, has been infected with malware since 2015. Sellafield nuclear site hacked by groups linked to Russia and China | The Guardian The fears are that some of the mist confidential information stored on …

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Posted on 8 September 20237 September 2023

Because It’s Friday – Fossils and Cheese!

I have two things for you this week for Because It’s Friday. Something quick from Randal Munro’s over on xkcd .com that I just found funny: Fossil – xkcd.com I cannot see either Dr. Alan Grant or Dr. Ellie Sattler doing this. The second is a high-tech cheese article I …

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Posted on 30 August 202330 August 2023

Chatbot attacks

A few short months ago AI chatbots and ChatGPT were all the tech and mainstream news seemed to be talking about! But of course, the threat actors were reading and listening to all that news and have been developing attacks that will exploit the victims new love of AI. UK …

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Posted on 7 June 202316 June 2023

MOVEit flaw – Excellent cyber advice from the BBC

This is a follow-up article to the one I posted about the compromise of MOVEit software: MOVEit secure file transfer compromised. I could paraphrase the following article – it covers many of the points I have written about here on Smart Thinking before – but my advice is take a …

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Posted on 13 May 20239 May 2023

Do you want to know more about writing a virus

This excellent article by Scott J Shapiro will not show you how to write a virus but it is about trying to track down one of the world’s most notorious malware authors. On the trail of the Dark Avenger: the most dangerous virus writer in the world | The Guardian …

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