Alex Martin

Journalist covering cybersecurity and intelligence | UK Editor: @TheRecord_Media | Alumnus: @VirtualRoutes | @SkyNews | Agent: @NorthbankTalent

[Alex Martin @AlexMartin]

“You are in the house of Elrond. And it is ten o'clock in the morning, on October the twenty fourth, if you want to know.”

[Dr Louise Marie Hurel @LouMarieHSD]

A snippet of a longer convo @dcuthbert & I had about AI incidents. Ofc, started w PHP vuln. As Dan puts it ‘we’re back in the 90s’.More of these bugs will emerge, orgs will scramble to patch.For once,AI can support w defence,but it will depend if defenders know how to use it.

[Alex Martin @AlexMartin]

Joe Tidy is the best journalist covering cybersecurity in the United Kingdom. He is not a web developer. But he has managed to reach literally *millions* of people around the world and inform them about cyber risks and threats they wouldn't have understood otherwise.

[George Parker @GeorgeWParker]

A look at Burnham's 100 days with help of an FT focus group in Sheffield, hosted by @Scarlett__Mag who joins us on the pod. Plus @PickardJE and @OilSheppard taking you through the week and the Budget ahead

[Rowland Manthorpe @rowlsmanthorpe]

A propos of nothing - Joe Tidy is one of my favourite journalists and a brilliant cyber reporter. The BBC are lucky to have him

[Halvar Flake @halvarflake]

On the upside: The fact that old bugs are being discovered is a strong indicator for optimism: Old bugs are deep bugs that survived many years of code review. Finding a bunch of old bugs is the clearest indicator that technological progress in bug detecdtion is real.

[Alex Martin @AlexMartin]

A cynic might point out that it is of course very cheap for the government to ask us to stock up on essential goods rather than actually fund defence and security. I suppose we’ll see what happens come the Budget next week.

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If the cyber threat is state-sponsored attacks on critical infrastructure, payment systems, supply chains etc., why does the campaign’s own cyber page tell people to use passkeys, update their devices and back up their photos? That is not useful emergency planning advice.

[Alex Martin @AlexMartin]

A little treat for everyone this #TrafalgarDay sharing my little bust of Lord Nelson keeping watch from one of the shelves in the living room.

[Royal Navy @RoyalNavy]

#OTD in 1805, the Royal Navy defeated the combined forces of France and Spain at Trafalgar.

The tactical brilliance, professionalism, technology and training which underpinned Adm Lord Nelson’s stunning victory have driven and shaped the Navy ever since.

#TrafalgarDay

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@musalbas @ipco @GCHQ @IPCOffice*, sorry.

[Alex Martin @AlexMartin]

@musalbas I think one might expect the argument that any such list of CVEs is going to be highly sensitive because of what it suggests about research and targeting. I think @IPCO (and @GCHQ) should respond to you too, they both care about public confidence in the intelligence community.

[Alex Martin @AlexMartin]

@musalbas @sjmurdoch How would you structure that transparency so that it doesn’t undermine the functions that the agency has a statutory duty to fulfil?

[Alex Martin @AlexMartin]

@pistol147 Sending love to you Mark!

[Alex Martin @AlexMartin]

Google is attributing this to a power event in one zone (europe-west2-b), which is part of its London region. It is weird that a fault in one zone (effectively a separate building, power, cooling, etc.) takes down others too, but has happened before: https://t.co/ZXfWKs5xJ7

[Sky News @SkyNews]

BREAKING: Multiple online services are down or 'experiencing issues.'

Google Cloud has reported "issues" in its western Europe region affecting dozens of websites, including; Revolut, Royal Mail and HSBC.

Latest updates ➡️ https://t.co/qG8LyDjpag

📺 Sky 501

[Liste @endliste]

Just found out about recency bias. Maybe the most important bias ever

[Alex Martin @AlexMartin]

@sheffieldtrib @HannahAlOthman @DPJHodges @LizzieRoberts @LutheBlue @henrimurison That's a silly assumption.

[Deborah Haynes @haynesdeborah]

The head of the army says the UK’s political leaders are about to start a “frank conversation” with the public about the need to prepare for war. General Sir Roly Walker said every citizen will be asked to make sacrifices and to play their part in the defence of the nation.

https://t.co/7RYgCh3wS7

[Alex Martin @AlexMartin]

@GazTheJourno That's an abomination of a sentence, but I think you can figure out what it meant to say. Coffee now.

[Alex Martin @AlexMartin]

@GazTheJourno I relish the memory of Mick Lynch claiming on Have I Got News For You waxing lyrical about the similarities between himself and the Chinese workers.