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Brian Honan

@brianhonan.bsky.social
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Irish cybersecurity pro, author, speaker, and commentator. CEO of BH Consulting, Head of Ireland's first CSIRT - IRISSCERT, former member of ENISA Advisory Group, & former Special Advisor on CyberSecurity to Europol. PGP ID 0xF1B5CF7D

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Brian Honan @brianhonan.bsky.social · 6h
Great coverage of @bhconsulting.bsky.social new SME cybersecurity, data protection, and AI advisory service called BH Haven www.bhhaven.com
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Cybersecurity, Data Protection & AI Governance | BH Haven
Practical cybersecurity, data protection and AI governance support for growing organisations, with clear plans, expert guidance and compliance support.
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Jenna McLaughlin @jennamclaughlin.bsky.social · 5h
While you're here, I've also been dipping my toe into the conversation around AI and cybersecurity, first on Sources and Methods: www.npr.org/2026/09/17/n..., and with another piece about two separate efforts to use AI for security, physical and digital: www.npr.org/2026/09/27/n...
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With AI, what's more important for the U.S. — winning or safety?
Everyone is talking about the spectre of AI catastrophe. Can the U.S. and China agree on guardrails to blunt the biggest risks when their leaders meet next week?
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Jenna McLaughlin @jennamclaughlin.bsky.social · 5h
As always, find me on Signal at JennaMcLaughlin.54 if you have thoughts, feelings, news, exclusive details, or memes to share. Anonymity granted.
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Brian Honan @brianhonan.bsky.social · 6h
Great coverage of @bhconsulting.bsky.social new SME cybersecurity, data protection, and AI advisory service called BH Haven www.bhhaven.com
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Cybersecurity, Data Protection & AI Governance | BH Haven
Practical cybersecurity, data protection and AI governance support for growing organisations, with clear plans, expert guidance and compliance support.
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Help Net Security @helpnetsecurity.com · 7h
In this new SME cybersecurity service, the AI assists and the consultants decide 🔗 Read more: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/09/30/b... #cybersecurity #SMEs #AI @bhconsulting.bsky.social @brianhonan.bsky.social
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In this new SME cybersecurity service, the AI assists and the consultants decide - Help Net Security
BH Consulting's BH Haven SME cybersecurity service pairs Irish firms with specialist consultants and AI, with a human approving each report.
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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 10h
Here it is by the way: pastes.io/Xaj37n6K
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An Open Letter to the Republic of Ireland Football...
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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 10h
My postman is after knocking on the door to ask me if I've seen the #StopTheGame open letter to Heimir Halgrimsson this morning. That's how news should be delivered.
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Cathy @cathyby.bsky.social · 10h
I don't want personalised music. I want music that surprises me, music I couldn't have imagined, music that gets me outside my comfort zone and shows me new worlds. Why is this new world they're selling SO DULL?
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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 15h
When you have no concept of how people engage with music
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I am not joking when I say this.
Spotify, Apple Music, and streaming in general is over.
Al music is now very, very good. You just don't know yet because all Al music circulating today is from ~2-3 generations ago.
Suno v6 pro et al has solved infinite personalized music.
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Brian Honan @brianhonan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We go live now to the Manchester City board room 😂😂😂
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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 29/09/2026
115/115. £900m of financial benefit by understating costs and overstating revenue across nine years. www.premierleague.com/en/news/4727...
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Premier League Statement: Manchester City FC
An independent Commission has found Manchester City FC guilty of all charges related to serious breaches of the Premier League’s financial rules over a nine-season period, and the majority of charges in relation to its failure to co-operate with the League’s investigation.
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BH Consulting @bhconsulting.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We’re delighted to launch BH Haven, a new service from BH Consulting providing straightforward cybersecurity solutions designed for SMEs. Practical expertise. AI-enabled support. Greater cyber resilience. Straightforward cybersecurity. Built for SMEs. 🔗 bhhaven.com
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Cybersecurity, Data Protection & AI Governance | BH Haven
Practical cybersecurity, data protection and AI governance support for growing organisations, with clear plans, expert guidance and compliance support.
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Brian Honan @brianhonan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The team at @bhconsulting.bsky.social have worked very hard to bring BH Haven www.bhhaven.com to market. BH Haven provides SMEs with a one stop shop solution for all their #cybersecurity, data protection, technical assurance, and AI governance needs. www.techcentral.ie/ai-enabled-s... #GDPR #AI
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Cybersecurity, Data Protection & AI Governance | BH Haven
Practical cybersecurity, data protection and AI governance support for growing organisations, with clear plans, expert guidance and compliance support.
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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 29/09/2026
In a video, the FBI calls the suspect arrested in the Netherlands, Pepijn Van der Stap, aka Umbreon, as one of the ShinyHunters leaders It also encourages other ShinyHunters members to rat-out their friends or get arrested www.fbi.gov/video-reposi...
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Brian Honan @brianhonan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Looks like ShinyHunters are at the FO phase of FAFO :)
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Allan “Ransomware Sommelier” Liska @ransomwaresommelier.com · 29/09/2026
Huh, who knew the jackasses behind Shiny Hunters ransomware group were not good people. “The 24-year-old Pepijn van der S., who was arrested on suspicion of involvement in the hacker group ShinyHunters on 15 September, is also suspected of an attempted provocation of two murders.”
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ShinyHunters-verdachte Pepijn van der S. ook verdacht van opdracht geven tot moorden
De 24-jarige Pepijn van der S. die 15 september was aangehouden op verdenking van betrokkenheid bij hackersgroep ShinyHunters, wordt ook verdacht van een poging van uitlokking van twee moorden.
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Wrong Hands @wronghands.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Irish Council for Civil Liberties 🏳️‍🌈 @iccl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A six-month trial of live facial recognition technology in London’s railway stations cost more than £320,000 and almost 100 hours of police officers’ time. It ended in one false match against a watchlist of suspects and no arrests. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Trial of live facial recognition in London stations ends with no arrests
Freedom of information request finds six-month trial cost £320,000, used almost 100 police hours and led to just one – false – alert
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Adrian Weckler @adrianweckler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ireland's DPC says AI firms unlikely to be permitted train data on private messages, because it would breach GDPR Likely a blow to WhatsApp, which launched Muse AI within WhatsApp in the US DPC says it also killed or delayed 9 AI services pre-launch www.independent.ie/business/blo...
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Blow to WhatsApp as Ireland's DPC says tech giants can’t use private messages to train AI
The data watchdog also says it delayed or killed nine AI launches in Europe in recent years after the services failed to meet privacy standards
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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 29/09/2026
The UK's communications watchdog has launched an investigation into two telecom providers for failing to prevent their phone numbers from being misused by scammers www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-and-b...
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Ofcom launches investigations into whether two telecoms companies failed to prevent misuse of their phone numbers by scammers
Ofcom has opened two separate investigations into telecoms providers, Vonage Business Limited and Voxbone SA, relating to concerns that telephone numbers held by the companies are being misused, inclu...
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Irish Council for Civil Liberties 🏳️‍🌈 @iccl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We need your help. As we mark 50 years of ICCL, we're launching an urgent campaign to protect our rights, liberty and democracy. We're looking for 100 people who share our belief in rights and liberties, and our determination to defend them, to donate €500 each. www.iccl.ie/the-fight-of...
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The fight of our lives.
The rights and liberties that we have worked so hard to gain and protect are under threat. This is the fight of our lives.
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TJ McIntyre @tjmcintyre.com · 28/09/2026
Irish plans to exempt processing of your data for AI from the GDPR are "not in line with the Charter of Fundamental Rights"; they amount to an "illegal change of primary law"; they "exempt AI from the guarantees in the Treaties and render them largely meaningless". Damning, from the leading expert.
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Adrian Weckler @adrianweckler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Lidl says you can use its new €9 per month 'unlimited' 5G mobile phone plan for hotspotting (laptops, other phones/tablets). ie cheapo broadband subscription for students, light users etc. €9pm vs €30-€55pm
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Karlin Lillington @klillington.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
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Public library visits increased by two million nationwide
Visits to public libraries around Ireland have increased by two million in the last two years, new figures show as National Public Libraries Open Day takes place nationwide.
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Irish Independent @independent.ie · 28/09/2026
The Irish Independent’s View: World News Day reminds us that need for trusted journalism is intensifying www.independent.ie/comment/edit...
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The Irish Independent’s View: World News Day reminds us that need for trusted journalism is intensifying
Social media algorithms deciding what you should read were bad enough. Now here come the AI bots, which are now bypassing normal data laws to access sensitive information.
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Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Important breakthrough in Europe's icebreaker Big Tech class action opens the path for class actions to hold Big Tech accountable using the GDPR. ICCL v Microsoft class action update... Full decision in link --> enforce.ie/digital-data...
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ICCL secures landmark precedent against Big Tech - Enforce
Class action will target “Real-Time Bidding” (RTB) data breach in Microsoft’s advertising system, and is anticipated to affect Microsoft’s operations across the EU
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Allan “Ransomware Sommelier” Liska @ransomwaresommelier.com · 28/09/2026
Russian hybrid attacks against Europe intensifying, says Macron
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Russian hybrid attacks against Europe intensifying, says Macron
The French president says he has tasked the government with protecting critical infrastructure and defence industry sites.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Pope reminds me of a version of Catholicism I knew growing up as a young man attending anti-war and anti-death penalty protests, where I met elderly Catholics who shared their version of faith with me. I learned that Catholicism was about love and mercy for the weak, the condemned, and the poor.
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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Really enjoyed this conversation with Hugh Linehan about The Last Good Day on the Internet open.spotify.com/episode/0PxK...
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Can we escape the algorithm? Mark Little is still optimistic
Inside Politics with Hugh Linehan · Episode
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National Library of Ireland @nlireland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
📣 #PoetryAloud 2026 is open for entries! 🎤 The National Library of Ireland and Poetry Ireland, in partnership with UCC, invite post-primary students across the island of Ireland to take part in this annual poetry speaking competition. 📆 Enter by 30 Sept 2026 ⭐ www.nli.ie/learn/poetry-aloud
Poetry Aloud trophy featuring a blackbird
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 28/09/2026
Protesters have begun a third day camped outside the administration of the Madrid region to object to the eviction of an octogenarian and demand stronger protection for tenants in the face of ⁠a lack of housing and soaring rents
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Madrid protests enter third day after pensioner evicted
Protesters have begun a third day camped outside the administration of the Madrid region to object to the eviction of an octogenarian and demand stronger protection for tenants in the face of ⁠a lack ...
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Brian Honan @brianhonan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Here is an even more effective way to keep AI agents from "escaping" containment
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Gerry Scotti Spegnere
ALT: Gerry Scotti Spegnere
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Grumpy-ish Brian🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇮🇪 @brian770.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 27/09/2026
The Dutch government is creating its own national operating system based on Linux. The new OS will be called DAWO and will be based on NixOS, a Linux distro that started as a research project at Utrecht University in the early 2000s tweakers.net/reviews/1533...
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Nederland maakt soeverein alternatief voor Windows en Office op basis van Linux
De Nederlandse overheid maakt een eigen digitale werkomgeving op basis van de Nederlandse Linux-distributie NixOS. De ontwikkelaars geven een kijkje in de keuken.
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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 27/09/2026
Fraudsters used AI to impersonate a senior executives and steal €95 million ($108 million) from Fideuram, the private banking arm of Italy’s largest bank Intesa Sanpaolo www.rainews.it/articoli/202... www.thedailystar.net/news/technol...
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Truffa con WhatsApp e IA a Fideuram, spariti 36 milioni di euro
L'ex presidente Paolo Molesini avrebbe autorizzato bonifici per 95 milioni dopo un messaggio attribuito al ceo di Intesa Sanpaolo, Carlo Messina, e una telefonata con voce clonata. Recuperata gran par...
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Ukrainian Defenders managed to carry out one of the largest drone operations to deliver food to residents of occupied #Oleshky, where Russia has created a humanitarian catastrophe&continues to hold around 2,000 residents hostage,including nearly 50 children 📹Kherson Regional Military Administration
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
do actors in movies actually die? they at least behave as if they do
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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The problem isn't rogue #AI models, it's *negligent companies*. If a biomedical firm put their product in public water supply because they wanted to test it 'in the real world', they'd be treated as criminal at corporate & individual level. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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OpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogue
Decision follows disclosures that OpenAI agents searching government websites had acted in unexpected ways
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Joe Tidy BBC News @joetidy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
for our undercovers," one former agent told me. The former cyber investigator is in a group chat with current agents who are worried their personal information could soon be freely available online to criminals and hostile nation-state hackers. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Agents fearful and angry after 'dangerous' FBI data breach
Current and former agents speak to the BBC about the devastating impact of the FBI hack.
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Joe Tidy BBC News @joetidy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Inside the FBI hack: Agents fearful and angry after 'dangerous' data breach. I've spoken to current/ former FBI agents who have expressed shock, fear and anger following a hack that appears to have exposed the private and personal information of the agency's entire workforce. "This is really bad..
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John Finn @seanfionn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Gavin Bazunu statement on withdrawing from Ireland squad Ireland only has 2 goal keepers in squad EUFA regulations require 3
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Ivan Annovazzi @ivannovazzi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
yeah the framing bugs me too. an agent doing what the prompt allowed isn't rogue, it's a prompt/sandbox design failure. blaming the software is just pr cleanup
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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Also, the players saying they're not going to do media availability for the duration of the window as part of their gesture is a very helpful gesture for themselves like. That's a bonus not a sacrifice, surely.
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Formula 1 @f1tv.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Narrowest winning margin since 2002 🤯 #F1 #AzerbaijanGP
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Ollie Whitehouse @ollieatnowhere.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Weekly summary is out... ctoatncsc.substack.com/p/cto-at-ncs...
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CTO at NCSC Summary: week ending September 27th
“They use tactics like cyber attacks, sabotage and disinformation to take organisations offline, disrupt activity, and weaken trust.”
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Brian Honan @brianhonan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Stop saying the agents are “acting improperly” or that the agents “went rogue”. AI agents are software. The agents just follow the instructions given to them. It was OpenAI who failed in ensuring their agents were controlled properly
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 26/09/2026
OpenAI has revealed that its agents leaked 53 images from ChatGPT users, as it continues to investigate its AI agents acting improperly
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OpenAI reveals agents leaked over 50 ChatGPT user images
OpenAI has revealed that its agents leaked 53 images from ChatGPT users, as it continues to investigate its AI agents acting improperly.
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Brian Honan @brianhonan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Sara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
He imposed Shania Law
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UBI Works @ubiworks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ireland's artist basic income returned €1.39 for every €1 spent. They made it permanent. South Korea just announced plans to follow. Now Scotland too.
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