Ciaran Martin

And this morning's musings on the slate connect an international collaboration for cyber security talent, the #CyberResilenceBill (@ciaranm.bsky.social), knowability ('Taxonomy-based Risk Identification') and Blake's Seven... 🙈

Can Scotland and Ireland stop being so nail bitingly exciting please!

Anyway, great stuff by our hairier cousins and if we make it to the finals as well it will be an amazing summer :)

Dozens of groups call for governments to protect encryption The letter comes as countries in Europe have moved over the past year to regulate or mandate legalized access for criminal and national security investigations.

Dozens of groups call for governments to protect encryption cyberscoop.com/encryption-s... by @derekbjohnson.bsky.social

The powers were weakening alright

Charts from Down Detector showing recent outages at Cloudflare and Amazon Web Services

If you're wondering why a bunch of the internet seems vaguely borked this morning

The rant or the song?

(Correct answer = Both)

YouTube video by Michael Fry (BigDirtyFry) Eamon Dunphy’s Rod Liddle Rant but it’s performed by an Indie Band

Later immortalised in song 2/2

m.youtube.com/watch?v=ENBp...

YouTube video by Piaras Kelly Eamonn Dunphy rant

Twenty years to the day since Roy Keane left Man Utd means it’s also 20 years to the day since the greatest moment in the history of Irish television 1/2

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Prep...

Thanks to BBC Sport for commemorating one of the most traumatic days of the 21st century

www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

I have and like you was pleasantly surprised from a position of low expectations

Troy Parrott and Ireland celebrate against Hungary

Troy story 3

📸 Attila Kisbedenek

Proper football is back

Punt it into the box

Flick on

Stab it home

Go to the World Cup (almost)

None of this horseshoe tikitaka 💩

Jack Charlton is smiling down from above on this Irish side 😀☘️

www.sportsnet.ca/soccer/video...

what's even worse is if you know how that cyber attack(tm) went down. Put it this way, the person doing it didn't even know what they were doing.

I often think about how one of my first stories for ZDNet back in 2016 was about a ransomware attack against a County Council with a ransom demand of £500.

Almost a decade later and the financial - and real world - impact of ransomware has just got much worse.

Extraordinary day and historic for the wrong reasons - a cyber attack featured in the GDP figures

The hack on Jaguar Land Rover was so bad that it hurt the U.K.'s GDP, Bank of England says The hack is estimated to have cost the company nearly $2.5 billion, and delayed manufacturing for weeks.

The hack against Jaguar Land Rover has proven to be the most economically devastating in British history, suggests Prof Ciaran Martin, quoted in @nbcnews.com👇
https://ow.ly/yZY650XqsoB

The Eleventh History Podcast · The Eleventh is an explosive thriller teasing out everything you never knew about one of the most famous chapters of Australian political history — the dismissal of Prime Minister Go...

On the 50th anniversary of the dismissal of Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, I am recommending this as the most jaw droppingly good political / historical podcast I’ve heard

Episode 2 will have anyone with an interest in intelligence hitting the floor

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

I’m a huge sceptic about killer robots but Copilot poses a different AI threat to human life - it can send the most placid, amiable person off into a murderous rage

Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to exit and launch own start-up Turing Award winner seeks to depart as Mark Zuckerberg makes ‘superintelligence’ push

Whatever else, this promises to be the funniest of all the AI start-ups: would be typical of Yann to call it bubble.ai

www.ft.com/content/c586...

Reflections on American foreign and defence policy by Shashank Joshi — The Changing Character of War Centre Tuesday 11 November, 13.30 Old Library, All Souls

For anyone in Oxford, I am speaking to the Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre (SST-CCW) at All Soul's today at 1.30pm, on the topic of how we can best make sense of US foreign & defence policy.
www.ccw.ox.ac.uk/events/2025/...

That’s a lot.

67% of Germans say that “When in doubt, we can and should no longer rely on military assistance from the US.”

Study: www.moreincommon.de/wp-content/u...

I have two missions in life:
- securing world peace
- dissuading people from organising a "quick preparatory call ahead of next week's panel".

It is genuinely hard for most people to grasp how poor the past was.

Today is an historic day. For the first time since records began my net to do list decreased.

One exciting thing about the BBC Board is it is one of the few places where each constituent kingdom of the UK gets an equal vote - power-sharing in action! Oh, and residents of England? Your representative is Sir Robbie Gibb <ducks for cover>

If there was ever a genuine new security threat from GenAI that had real world impacts for orgs where they had to change behaviour to defend, I’d likely be the first to post about it.

Would anybody notice, since almost everybody at cybersecurity vendors are incentivised to cry wolf?

Glad that someone has finally taken responsibility for the appalling assault on democracy that was the Jan. 6 insurrection.

Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?

Rage against group think, writes Matthew Syed in the Sunday Times, by reading out a paragraph of what *I* think at the beginning of every BBC editorial meeting.

I can't imagine a job i'd like to do less. Managing an organisation held to a ludicrous standard by roaring idiots on a daily basis, while the main mediums it uses are all in decline and it's starved of resources.

Building on your pessimism one could say 1914 was the dawn of a new era for Europe