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@markyk.bsky.social

PR, tech and writing in equal measure at onebite comms.

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S2 E5: Deepfake Executive Fraud
YouTube video by What The Hack Show S2 E5: Deepfake Executive Fraud

I recently joined Sysdig's What The Hack show in this episode examining Deepfake executive fraud, discussing why it has become such an issue and how to prevent it.

(Also, you can nose at the LEGO sets behind me.)

Thanks to @maliciarogue.bsky.social for having me!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UKq...

12.11.2025 12:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

So this is taking place today - will be interesting to see how the conversation develops this afternoon.

06.11.2025 14:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Valkey 9.0 Debuts Multidatabase Clustering for Massive-Scale Workloads Valkey 9.0 introduces multidatabase clustering, atomic slot migration and performance optimizations.

Valkey 9.0 introduces multidatabase clustering, atomic slot migration and performance optimizations.

27.10.2025 14:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The snail farmer of London, his mafia friends, and a ยฃ20m vendetta against the taxman Terry Ball runs elaborate mollusc-based tax avoidance schemes that are costing London councils millions of pounds. Yet when London Centric tracks him down, an even stranger story emerges.

I think this is the weirdest story I've ever reported. www.londoncentric.media/p/terry-ball...

18.10.2025 06:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 511    ๐Ÿ” 195    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 39    ๐Ÿ“Œ 83

For journalists and PRs, directly after a successful conversation with an interesting spokesperson that has taken weeks to arrange:

"When's copy approval due?"

13.10.2025 08:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Good luck either way Matt ... I would say this is a no-lose situation for you, and that boy is definitely over-supplied in the derp department

24.09.2025 20:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

*stares*

23.09.2025 16:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The military ceremony for Donald Trump is on in the background. I thought they were playing the theme tune to Monty Python's Flying Circus ...

17.09.2025 15:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
b/w photo of an absolutely huge bloke in a huge fur coat (polar bear, apparently, which he shot himself) next to a diminutive woman in a hat (his wife Dagmar Cohn)

b/w photo of an absolutely huge bloke in a huge fur coat (polar bear, apparently, which he shot himself) next to a diminutive woman in a hat (his wife Dagmar Cohn)

Alas! It is 68 years since the world was deprived of Peter Freuchen, anthropologist, arctic explorer, writer, WWII resistance fighter, quiz show contestant, film star, friend of Mae West, fucking enormous geezer, and maker of tools from frozen excrement

02.09.2025 15:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 147    ๐Ÿ” 38    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 12

1) Would this be useful?
2) Is there an initiative like this already that Jess could contribute to, or does she need to create one?
3) would anyone want to get involved or support this?

03.09.2025 08:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I have asked the question of a legal expert. :)

02.09.2025 15:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Everything is fine dot GIF

02.09.2025 15:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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In 2021, we founded FerretDB with a bold vision: to return the document database market to its open source roots by creating the leading open source alternative to MongoDB, built on Postgres. Forโ€ฆ | ... In 2021, we founded FerretDB with a bold vision: to return the document database market to its open source roots by creating the leading open source alternative to MongoDB, built on Postgres. For yea...

I'll suggest Peter Farkas' LinkedIn post here as well, as this gives some interesting additional background on how DocumentDB has grown over 2025. The range of open source options and MongoDB-compatible options available has expanded massively this year. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

28.08.2025 21:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

H went to Reading Festival, saw Chappell Roan ... it was great!

28.08.2025 21:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Pearl Jam - Mother Love Bone โ€˜Shineโ€™ EP and โ€˜Appleโ€™ Reissues In honor of the enduring impact of Mother Love Boneโ€™s music, individual reissues of Shine EPย and the seminal full-length debut Apple are available for preorder today with a September 26 release date!

no worries - it was only sharing pearljam.com/news/mother-...

28.08.2025 18:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Me, an enterprise B2B IT PR person running a podcast on cloud security for a client: ...

You, Spotify account manager: Hey, have you considered some back to school marketing campaigns?

27.08.2025 09:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I'm working on an article for ComputerWeekly.com around whether "pulling the plug" and taking systems/servers offline can be a way to stop an attack - and an attacker in their efforts. |... I'm working on an article for ComputerWeekly.com around whether "pulling the plug" and taking systems/servers offline can be a way to stop an attack - and an attacker in their efforts. It would be gr...

I'm currently running a poll on LinkedIn, does 'pulling the plug', or taking servers and systems offline, stop an attack and an attacker in their steps?

I would love your vote here -

www.linkedin.com/posts/dan-ra...

19.08.2025 14:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I am very jealous! enjoy!

16.08.2025 15:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Richard Thompson is great - saw him at the Reading Hexagon few years back. Contemplated this year, but it was at just the wrong time for me. Hope it is a good one - full band or solo?

16.08.2025 15:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

nice crowd - is it literary, music or other?

16.08.2025 15:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

And you can sing the title to an Aerosmith chorus.

Kuber- net- es at the edge!

14.08.2025 16:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

A: "So, for our rebrand. Our company relies on fans with the most incredible demand for lore, bloodshed and massive guns. Can't overestimate the guns."
B: "Yep."
A: "Fire up the font picker. Is there one called Grimdark?"
B: "No"
A: Shame. Roll a d100. that should do."

25.07.2025 10:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Doc Brown, from Back to the Future: Where we're going, we don't need emails.

25.07.2025 09:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"this email should have been a summary" is going to be the new "this meeting should have been an email"

25.07.2025 09:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Always fun when you see a massive organisation in the data and analysis business, that actively wants you to share its data, and then they go through a big website refresh that breaks all their links.

23.07.2025 15:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Can you monetise this by providing it as a service? You can earn good money by *not* having this happen to you. ๐Ÿ˜€

03.07.2025 13:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Cats totally would carry out multiple rug pulls ... or as they term it, "making cyber biscuits"

03.07.2025 12:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
CyberThreaterator

An initial release of Cyberthreaterator 2.0 is now up and running:
falling-anvil.com/cyberthreate...?
Any suggestions for additional threat types will glady be accepted.

03.07.2025 12:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

I am sure the PR hordes will help out where they can ...

17.06.2025 08:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Then the AIs all get together behind your back to gossip about who is running what model, and whether they should go down to that new bit-barn that is so bougie without you. While you carry on earning cash to keep the AI running.

03.06.2025 17:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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