Freelance Security & Privacy Journalist. Bylines: @guardian @WIRED @InfosecurityMag @ITPro @Assured_Intel @Forbes. kate.oflaherty@techjournalist.co.uk
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Despite never entering a national lockdown, Taiwan has remained nearly virus-free. I spoke to @audreyt about how the country did it for @WiredUK
wired.co.uk/article/taiwan-c…
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The fact that the PHP vulnerability didn't immediately turn into mass chaos is only "surprising" to people who don't know anything about cybersecurity (or people trying to sell you something).
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Honestly made me laugh so much @UK_Daniel_Card @blackroomsec 😂😂😂
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Actually AI is the tech that has been hyped for years and no one knows exactly what it is. No one wanted this
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🚨New 0day inbound, windows2shell🚨
Can compromise any Windows host. Potentially 70% of the internet is affected.
Tweet-able PoC:
cmd.exe/powershell.exe
Can’t be patched
(/S lulz)
New 0day inbound, wsl2shell 🚨
Can compromise any Windows laptop running VS Code. Potentially 99% of developers affected.
PoC: wsl -d Ubuntu
Can be removed 👀
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Cyber incidents, #SupplyChain disruption and growing pressure on customer trust. What did 2026 teach us about #Resilience?
@KateOflaherty joins Part 2 of our #CyberSecurityAwarenessMonth Phishing For Trouble special to explore the lessons:
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/3T4…
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I wrote this yesterday looking at how likely mass exploitation is for #PHP2SHELL....
pwndefend.com/2026/10/21/how…
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would love to see:
The data.
Some stats on #php2shell. In the 10 hours before it was publicly announced, across the @Cloudflare network we saw thousands of attempts to exploit it. That jumped to tens of thousands in the 45 minutes post announcement, hundreds of thousands within 2 hours, and millions now.
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#AI, regulation and cyber risk dominated 2026. But what actually changed?
For #CyberSecurityAwarenessMonth, @KateOflaherty joins us for Part 1 of our Phishing For Trouble special.
Beyond the headlines, into the practical lessons.
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/7Gp…
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Also saw this doc and hated it as much as the other one but for different reasons. Not sure why Netflix is pushing this AI apocalypse line so hard 🫠
Just watched the @netflix Instadocs about the @OpenAI cyberattack on @huggingface. Super disappointing, as they went for maximum anthropomorphism of the technology and full doomer mode.
I spent more than two hours with them trying to correct all their mistakes and ground this in reality, explaining that agents are technological systems, not aliens. But it looks like the drive to scare people for maximum views was too strong.
Also, they didn’t mention the lack of containment and monitoring of the agents, how closed-model safeguards blocked our defensive work, or how we defended ourselves with AI using an open model. And that we still lack a lot of information and transparency, including full agent traces and that companies need to remain accountable for what their agents do.
It ends up being a fun sci-fi movie though!
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I am on a bus right now and someone is watching a tv programme and not using headphones. Can this also count?
People playing loud music on buses could face £100 fine bbc.in/4yR9HFa
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