Career highlight: featured unexpectedly on last week’s episode of Industry on HBO!
(Or at least, an actor playing my voice in a fictional press huddle)
Making it onto my fave TV show was not on my 2k26 bingo card, but I’ll take it ✨
Musk right now casually walking through his grand payments vision for Twitter:
Users could link their online bank account to Twitter, he says. Then the company will offer "extremely compelling money market account to get extremely high yield on your balance". Add debit cards etc
Why #infosecbikini matters:
At 2019 @defcon I went to the bathroom and a woman was weeping. She'd been at a stall trying to crack some cryptogram puzzles and the man in charge told her it'd be complex for her, she should to go to the "babies stall". She had a PhD in cryptography.
Extremely useful chart as covid runs rampant in the UK and we all plan for Christmas
It shows how long after exposure to covid you will be detectable by a lateral flow test vs a PCR test if you do have it
And at what stages you are likely infectious
NEW: A Facebook manager warned internally that the company made revenues it “should have never made” by overstating how many users advertisers could reach, according to class action lawsuit
Execs refused to fix the issue "to preserve FB's own bottom line"
TikTok owner ByteDance has admitted it inappropriately obtained the data of users - including that of my Financial Times colleague @CristinaCriddle - in order to analyse their location as part of an internal leaks investigation
ft.com/content/e873b9…
If accurate it looks like the Trump campaign website was very temporarily hacked (but since restored)
Hackers inserted a message saying they had evidence "proving his criminal involvment and cooperation with foreign actors manipulating the 2020 election"
NEW: the head of the US Committee on Oversight and Reform has sent a letter to social media platform Parler demanding it hand over docs related to its finance and foreign ties - including to “any Russian individual or entity”
As she told her story, two other women entered the bathroom and began sharing similar experiences. One, of sexual harassment. All three in tears. I'd been at Defcon less than an hour.
Women in infosec are harassed in their professional lives & harassed for having personal lives
NEW: Telegram - the messaging app that's exploded in popularity in the wake of the Parler shutdown - began shutting down public domestic extremist/white supremacist groups for the first time yesterday, according to researchers
Story w/ @SVR13
BREAKING: Discord tells me they've shut down the WallStreetBets server (their equivalent of the Reddit forum) "for continuing to allow hateful and discriminatory content after repeated warnings"
Says this was not "due to financial fraud related to GameStop or other stocks"