#weekly update

Week 29, July 14-20, 2025

Dad working on the "impossible" puzzle I spent most of the week at what I lovingly refer to as the Meadow, which is my dad and sister...

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Week 08, February 16 - 22, 2026

It's been a while since I did one of these weekly updates - and I miss doing them! So, back at it again. It's funny that the last one of these I posted , I was also at my dad and sister's house - aka "The Meadow" - for a part of the week. I decided I'd put together a little photo carousel of last week and then chat about what happened. The biggest accomplishment of the week was passing the certification exam that is part of the requirements for becoming an Accredited Financial Counselor. In a...

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Week 32 - Aug 2 - 8, 2026 - Now

A review of what's ahead in Week 32, 2026

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Weekly Update 521: Breach Perception v. Reality

I think what really resonates with me this week is being able to completely turn the tables on perceptions around things like AI being the big bad hacking tool the news would have you believe. There's the stat I talk about where it's had literally 0%

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Weekly Update 522: Live From Oslo with Scott Helme

Heads up: the first 7 mins is a bit quiet until we worked out the external mic was misbehaving - sorry! But get through that and have a listen to Scott's experiences with how Report URI is identifying malware-infected machines within orgs, all due to CSP reporting. It&

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Weekly Update 523: Live From a Norwegian Fjord

How's that view?! With NDC Oslo now done, it's a little bit of sightseeing before heading to Denmark for GOTO in Copenhagen for Scott's and my "Cyber-broken" talk. In the meantime, this week is mostly about the ShinyHunters trajectory targeting both

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Weekly Update 524: Live From Copenhagen

I'm in Denmark! Well, just, I'm now at Copenhagen airport ready to begin the long trek home, with the final event at GOTO now done and going just perfectly. This week, there are two ShinyHunters arrests in the news: Pepijn in the Netherlands and then Saif

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Weekly Update 525: AI Data Breach Hyperbole

I remember the name of that AI doco now - The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist . I was watching it on the long-haul flight home the other day, and what I found particularly engrossing was the polar-opposite opinions from a bunch of people: "it'

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Weekly Update 526: Building HIBP AI/SI First

I have this sense that we've passed the point where "vibe coding" is a derogatory term. I have no empirical evidence for this; it's more a feeling that those weaponising the term have now accepted the inevitability and are just getting with the program.

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Weekly Update 527: Cybergeddon News v. Reality

As the news from last week has settled down, it would seem this headline was pretty spot on. The foretold apocalypse didn't eventuate, and there were no internet-destroying outages. In fact, it took days before I could find a single story of PHP2Shell being reliably attributed back

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Weekly Update 528: Reading AI-generated Code & the Economics of Solar

By pure timing coincidence, the Proton CEO's AI @ Proton, Engineering Manifesto made headlines around the same time as this week's video. The guy's management style and choice of language have really rubbed a lot of people up the wrong way, and deservedly so, IMHO.

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