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Andrea

@andreadata.bsky.social
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#InfoSec | DORA | Privacy and Ethics| Recovering Big 4 consultant | Galway, Ireland via London & SA | Navigating late-stage capitalism with cats 😻

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Kevin Beaumont @doublepulsar.com · 08/07/2025
New by me - although Citrix say there is no evidence of exploitation of CitrixBleed 2 vulnerability, they are wrong - it has been under active exploitation since mid June by an IP associated to a ransomware group, with multiple IP addresses now involved. doublepulsar.com/citrixbleed-...
doublepulsar.com
CitrixBleed 2 exploitation started mid-June — how to spot it
CitrixBleed 2 — CVE-2025–5777 — has been under active exploitation to hijack Netscaler sessions, bypassing MFA, globally for a month.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
We apologize for the length of this post, but we felt it was important to share the full details with you.
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Andrea @andreadata.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
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Dakota @dakotaindc.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Chinese hacking is becoming bigger, better and stealthier @euben.bsky.social and I on the beat economist.com/china/2025/0...
economist.com
Chinese hacking is becoming bigger, better and stealthier
Experts say it is the main shift in the cyber-threat landscape in a decade
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 18/03/2025
Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.
nytimes.com
Elon Musk’s Starlink Expands Across White House Complex
Trump administration officials said the company donated the internet service, saying the gift had been vetted by the lawyer overseeing ethics issues in the White House Counsel’s Office.
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WIRED @wired.com · 18/03/2025
They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
freedom.press
Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow
As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 17/03/2025
Thousands of people are ditching Tesla. Here’s one of them with a message you can see from space. Location: Black Rock Sands, Wales, UK Led By Donkeys is 100% funded by small donations.
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Andrea @andreadata.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Toddler golf 🏆
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Pokemon Go sale to a Saudi Arabian company owned by govt comes with six separate corporate announcement blogs, not one of them directly addressing what happens to 100 million people's location data, AR mapping capabilities, or the AI maps they have been training: www.404media.co/saudi-arabia...
404media.co
Saudi Arabia Buys Pokémon Go, and Probably All of Your Location Data
A company founded by the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund just bought the most popular AR video game of all time.
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SXSW @sxsw.com · 08/03/2025
Privacy isn’t about hiding—it’s about trust and control over our own information. In her #SXSW 2025 Keynote, Signal President, @meredithmeredith.bsky.social breaks down why our privacy matters.
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Andrea @andreadata.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
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Jake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
You can't just stop tracking "Russian cyber threats." Most threat actor groups aren't attributed with high confidence to any particular nation. Imagine being an analyst tracking a group only to fear for your job as you get enough data for attribution... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
A person familiar with the matter who spoke to the Guardian on the condition of anonymity said analysts at the agency were verbally informed that they were not to follow or report on Russian threats, even though this had previously been a main focus for the agency.

The person said work that was being done on something “Russia-related” was in effect “nixed”.

“Russia and China are our biggest adversaries. With all the cuts being made to different agencies, a lot of cybersecurity personnel have been fired. Our systems are not going to be protected and our adversaries know this,” the person said.
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Andrea @andreadata.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
All monitoring of cyber attacks from Russia has been stopped. This is bad #cybersecurity
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Me: everything on my computer works great. I'm very happy with my system exactly as it is. Tech companies: But what if ... it was different
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Roberta Flack, Grammy-winning singer known for 'Killing Me Softly With His Song' and other intimate hits, dies at 88.
A photo of Roberta Flack, wearing Black
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Marc Fischer @marc-fischer.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Time to evict AirBnB from your life, if you have't already.
independent.co.uk
Airbnb’s co-founder is joining Elon Musk’s DOGE
Gebbia, a close friend of Musk, has praised DOGE’s work and defended it against criticisms on social media
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
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Andrea @andreadata.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
So security is not really their thing🙃
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Andrea @andreadata.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Sorry what, which grifter are you??
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9
This is a venn diagram showing how 69 Trump actions map onto domains covering: undermining democratic institutions; suppressing dissent and media; dismantling social protections; attacking science and education; destabilising the global order. A table version is available here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LZN7QnbSyFfUZJG8Sn1MWpK0VnfBtb0OSyZ1jxP3xBk/edit?usp=sharing
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Andrea @andreadata.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
If there was ever any doubt about their intentions and the dystopian inevitability of what lies ahead, this confirms what we all feared. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
wired.com
Former Palantir and Elon Musk Associates Are Taking Over Key Government IT Roles
The chief information officers of at least three major government agencies have been replaced by Silicon Valley executives, including from Palantir and Elon Musk's SpaceX.
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Andrea @andreadata.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Privilege in cybersecurity terms is entirely different 👀
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
2. A memo distributed by NSA leadership to its staff says that on February 10, all NSA websites and internal network pages that contain banned words will be deleted. This is the list of 27 banned words distributed to NSA staff:
Anti-Racism
Racism
Allyship
Bias
DEI
Diversity
Diverse
Confirmation Bias
Equity
Equitableness
Feminism
Gender
Gender Identity
Inclusion
Inclusive
All-Inclusive
Inclusivity
Injustice
Intersectionality
Prejudice
Privilege
Racial Identity
Sexuality
Stereotypes
Pronouns
Transgender
Equality
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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 10/02/2025
Oh my god, they just unintentionally wrecked a ton of red team playbooks at the NSA popular.info/p/the-nsas-b...
The memo acknowledges that the list includes many terms that are used by the
NSA in contexts that have nothing to do with
DEI. For example, the term "privilege" is used by the NSA in the context of "privilege escalation." In the intelligence world, privilege escalation refers to "techniques that adversaries use to gain higher-level permissions on a system or network."
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
⚡️ The historic moment of Estonia leaving the Russian-fed power grid. On February 8, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia left Russia and Belarus energy system. By the end of the day today, they will have joined the European grid.
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Andrea @andreadata.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Teen hacker who goes by the name of ‘Big Balls’ online has full access to government systems. You couldn’t make this stuff up.
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borderless @borderless.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Y'all pick a lane. Then make a little progress in your lane each day. Every serious, experienced organizer I know is Doing Their Thing. Instead of freaking out about each bit of bad news, we're in our lanes rapidly building dual power infrastructure and networks that don't rely on the goverment.
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Andrea @andreadata.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Sunday cat. My goal in life is to be more cat.
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Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 20/01/2025
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Huib Modderkolk @huibmodderkolk.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
‘The report estimates that Meta earned approximately $338,000 from ads run by Kremlin-linked SDA — even after the agency was sanctioned. This raises serious questions about Meta’s role in enabling state-sponsored influence operations.’ checkfirst.network/influence-by...
checkfirst.network
Influence by Design: How Meta Accepted Russian Propaganda Payments Despite Sanctions - CheckFirst
Check First, in partnership with Reset.tech and AI Forensics, unveils the extent to which Kremlin-linked entity SDA have exploited Meta platforms to disseminate propaganda.
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Ollie Whitehouse @ollieatnowhere.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Today at NCSC we published two blogs on our position regarding passkeys - the first is below (links to the second) - they are our future, not perfect but getting better.. .. call to action within! www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/pa...
ncsc.gov.uk
Passkeys: they're not perfect but they're getting better
Passkeys are the future of authentication, offering enhanced security and convenience over passwords, but widespread adoption faces challenges that the NCSC is working to resolve.
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Andrea @andreadata.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Every post on RedNote: ‘Welcome TikTok refugees I’m your Chinese spy’! The TikTokers mock the lobbying from Zuckerberg to get the app banned in the hope they’ll move over to Instagram, Threads or Facebook. They’d rather give their data to a Chinese app than do that! The irony is joyous
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Elon Musk is the perfect example of Capitalism. Someone who doesn't have a clue about anything, who isn't liked by anyone. But we all have to listen to his stupid sh*t.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
"Europe’s largest pension fund sold its entire €571 million ($585 million) stake in Tesla Inc. in the third quarter partly due to disagreement with Elon Musk’s remuneration package."
bloomberg.com
Europe’s Largest Pension Fund Sold Tesla Stake Over Musk’s Pay
Europe’s largest pension fund sold its entire €571 million ($585 million) stake in Tesla Inc. in the third quarter partly due to disagreement with Elon Musk’s remuneration package.
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Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · 12/01/2025
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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Let me tell you about the weird business that delivers art into our lives, and the impact it has on the long-term careers of artists. This is a thread prompted by yet another article on authors' incomes, and the inevitable reactions from the 'people-would-pay-if-it-was-worth-it-to-them' brigade. 1/
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Prophetic from @nafeez.bsky.social four weeks ago After Trump’s Return, Britain Is Next in the Firing Line of Putin’s War On Democracy The real reasons lying behind Elon Musk’s relentless attacks on Keir Starmer and the UK Government bylinetimes.com/2024/12/12/a...
bylinetimes.com
After Trump’s Return, Britain Is Next in the Firing Line of Putin’s War On Democracy
The real reasons lying behind Elon Musk’s relentless attacks on Keir Starmer and the UK Government
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Andrea @andreadata.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
I actually don’t think I have what it takes to January
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Prof John O Brennan @jobmaynooth.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
The staggering cost of Brexit to Britain: the numbers, 5 yrs on.
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Andrea @andreadata.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
The irony. “As stewards of what we believe are God’s dollars, it’s our job to speak Biblical truth to corporate power,” said Robert Netzly, founder of the Meridian, Idaho-based investment firm.
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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
What an extraordinary, devastating essay. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
lrb.co.uk
Sophie Smith · Sleeping Women: On the Pelicot trial
Gisèle Pelicot doesn’t conceive of her now ex-husband or the other men who raped her as ‘bad apples’, aberrations...
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Andrea @andreadata.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Turns out they were listening. Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that its voice assistant Siri routinely recorded private conversations that were then sold to third parties for targeted ads
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Andrea @andreadata.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
That’s Monday nearly done 😅
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Andrea @andreadata.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Look back at history it’s the same with computer operators, advertising and even parks work . When women start to dominate these field salaries also go down.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
NEW: Meet Sergei Cristo, a Russian-born Conservative party activist turned whistleblower. Episode 1 is out today: A meeting at the Carlton Club. And the start of efforts to uncover the biggest Russian intelligence operation since the Cambridge Spy Ring. 1/ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
podcasts.apple.com
Episode 1: A Meeting at the Carlton Club
Podcast Episode · Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring · EP1 · 24m
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Andrea @andreadata.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Why is it so hard for people to understand this concept?
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Andrea @andreadata.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Might add stop spending money on stupid shit but great list
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
This is so spot-on it’s scary.
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