Data broker
June 2025
June 2025
Vol. 8, Iss. 24
Robin’s Newsletter #365
Whole Foods supplier disruption. Google outage caused by poor error handling. DarkGaboon ransoming Russian companies. US ATC runs on Win95.
May 2025
May 2025
Vol. 8, Iss. 20
Robin’s Newsletter #361
M&S insurance claim may top £100M. Coinbase flips script on extortion attempt. OpenAI instructed to retain output log data.
October 2024
October 2024
Vol. 7, Iss. 41
Robin’s Newsletter #330
Chinese actors compromised major US telcos. Marriott agrees to 20-year FTC settlement.
August 2024
August 2024
Vol. 7, Iss. 34
Robin’s Newsletter #323
US intel says Iran behind Trump campaign hack. Man hacks death register to get out of child support payments. How not to run a phishing test.
Vol. 7, Iss. 33
Robin’s Newsletter #322
Large data set published from US Data broker. Trump campaign blames Iran for leaked emails. Critical zero-click TCP/IP vulnerability in Windows.
February 2024
February 2024
Vol. 7, Iss. 6
Robin’s Newsletter #295
No, 3 million toothbrushes didn't DDoS anything. But... Deepfake video used in CFO scam to steal £20 million. TfL has been trialling AI surveillance.
March 2023
March 2023
Vol. 6, Iss. 11
Robin’s Newsletter #247
BlackLotus malware can circumvent Secure Boot, infect UEFI. The FBI has been buying US citizen's location data. People are better at identifying fake news if you pay them.
August 2021
August 2021
Vol. 4, Iss. 35
Robin’s Newsletter #167
Microsoft's $20BN investment is on its own products, and they need the investment. Future of the UK's 'post-Brexit' data protection regime and new Information Commissioner. Samsung can remotely disable its smart TVs.
April 2021
April 2021
Vol. 4, Iss. 15
Robin’s Newsletter #147
Facebook's *ahem* 'data scraping' incident sets the stage for debate on responsible design and engineering. AWS bomb threat. Censorship by QoS. TUI's algorithm gender bias led to 'serious incident' calculating takeoff loads.