Kevin Beaumont
Kevin BeaumontMy take on this one, specifically limiting terms like Palestine by MS is lame.
Kevin BeaumontThe most depressing thing about the TikTok videos of Microsoft employees protesting about the company’s involvement in supporting genocide is their colleagues, sat around them, laugh and tut at the colleagues protesting.
Kevin BeaumontThe Dutch Public Prosecution Service #CitrixBleed2 incident rolls on - NRC report on an email from the Director of their IT service, where they say “It is clear that it’s a massive and dramatic incident”.
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/07/22/digitale-werkomgeving-om-inderdaad-gehackt-onderzoek-moet-uitwijzen-welke-informatie-is-gestolen-a4901019
Kevin BeaumontThe Dutch Public Prosecution Service Citrix Netscaler incident is rumbling on. They are working on service recovery.
https://www.databreachtoday.com/dutch-prosecutors-recover-from-suspected-russian-hack-a-29129
#CitrixBleed2
Kevin BeaumontAwkward, Google put out a blog in June about teenagers phoning up orgs and getting access to their databases by asking for access.. and yesterday updated it to say they also got owned by the same kids. https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/voice-phishing-data-extortion
Kevin BeaumontCompanies and governments, 2022: we want to promote diversity of thought and remain free nations.
Companies and governments, 2025: we’ve scrapped all diversity of thought initiatives and promoted Sam Altman and Elon Musk to be World King.
Kevin BeaumontPretty funny, the Swedish PM is using ChatGPT to ask how to run his country. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/05/chat-gpt-swedish-pm-ulf-kristersson-under-fire-for-using-ai-in-role
Kevin BeaumontThe Verge asked Grok’s new “spicy” video tool to generate videos of Taylor Swift.. it generated videos of her getting naked. https://www.theverge.com/report/718975/xai-grok-imagine-taylor-swifty-deepfake-nudes
Kevin BeaumontI survived the UK civil war yesterday
Kevin BeaumontSuggestion for Azure abuse team - monitor GreyNoise. Azure’s becoming biggest source for a bunch of vulns.
Kevin BeaumontArticWolf say they have observed Akira ransomware incidents gaining access via fully patched SonicWall SSL VPN boxes with accounts with MFA enabled, speculate they have another zero day.
https://arcticwolf.com/resources/blog/arctic-wolf-observes-july-2025-uptick-in-akira-ransomware-activity-targeting-sonicwall-ssl-vpn/
Kevin BeaumontAmazon made a War of the Worlds movie - the copyright has expired - where Amazon is the hero corporation that spies on people and saves the world via Amazon orders 🤣
https://gizmodo.com/amazons-new-war-of-the-worlds-features-a-head-scratching-twist-2000636929