UK SMEs losing over £3bn a year to cyber incidents
Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) throughout the UK are losing £3.4bn every year as a result of inadequate and unfit-for-purpose cyber security measures, with…
Month: April 2025
Hive Five 218 – AI 2027 & The End Of Children
I’m trying out the Obsidian plugin Meta Bind that I mentioned in Hive Five 215, and I love it! Currently, I’m using it for my…
Curiosity is the Receptor, Understanding is the Stimuli
The more questions one has floating around in their mind at any given time, the more knowledge can be harvested from day to day experiences.…
China alleges former soldier shared secrets of troops, weapons with foreign spy agency
China’s top counterspy agency has announced the arrest of a former soldier suspected of helping send Chinese military secrets to a foreign espionage agency. In…
Malicious VSCode extensions infect Windows with cryptominers
Nine VSCode extensions on Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code Marketplace pose as legitimate development tools while infecting users with the XMRig cryptominer to mine Ethereum and…
Dumping Firefox. Going to Safari.
I’ve been getting more and more frustrated with Firefox over the months. It’s been getting to the point where I’ve been considering moving to Safari…
Trump administration under scrutiny as it puts major round of CISA cuts on the table
The Trump administration is facing renewed scrutiny from Congress and other officials following reports that massive job cuts are coming to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure…
In Philippines, fears of ‘cyber cold war’ amid surge in online threats
A surge in online threats against the Philippines has amplified fears of a “cyber cold war” among security analysts, following Communications Minister Ivan Uy’s warning…
This $16 AdGuard plan protects your whole family from malicious ads
You’re not alone in feeling as though anywhere you turn in your digital world, there are ads lurking, waiting to get in the way of…
NIST calls time on older vulnerabilities amid surging disclosures
The United States’ national metrology institute, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), is to cease providing updates to tens of thousands of older…
Cbus hit by “unusually high spike in log-in attempts”
Cbus has confirmed its members were also targeted in a widespread attack on superannuation funds, with a “spike in log-in attempts” triggering multi-factor authentication prompts…
Economics as the Solution to Cognitive Dissonance
Scott Adams just wrote an interesting piece about how he thinks economists have a unique way of seeing the world. First, he loosely defines an…