Supply chain

September 2025

September 2025


Vol. 8, Iss. 37
Robin’s Newsletter #378
Vol. 8, Iss. 37

JLR says data taken as supply chain worries grow. US wraps up is disinformation cooperation centre. Switzerland considering ID requirements for VPNs.

April 2025

April 2025


Vol. 8, Iss. 17
Robin’s Newsletter #358
Vol. 8, Iss. 17

M&S Cyber incident. Lots of data from FBI, Verizon, IBM, Mandient. Calls for greater harmonisation of cyber rules.

July 2024

July 2024


Vol. 7, Iss. 27
Robin’s Newsletter #316
Vol. 7, Iss. 27

Unauthenticated RCE in OpenSSH. ShinyHunters release phone numbers of 33 million Authy users. Japan wins the 'war' on floppy disks.

June 2024

June 2024


Vol. 7, Iss. 22
Robin’s Newsletter #311
Vol. 7, Iss. 22

Ticket Master, Santander breached; Snowflake Possibly not? Plus Op Endgame takedown of 100 malware servers.

April 2024

April 2024


Vol. 7, Iss. 14
Robin’s Newsletter #303
Vol. 7, Iss. 14

CSRB slams Microsoft over 'preventable' Storm-558 breach that 'should never have occured'.

March 2024

March 2024


Vol. 7, Iss. 13
Robin’s Newsletter #302
Vol. 7, Iss. 13

Open-source project compromised to allow SSH backdoor. UK, US accuse China of targeting politicians. Facebook AiTM'd users to spy on Snapchat usage.


Vol. 7, Iss. 11
Robin’s Newsletter #300
Vol. 7, Iss. 11

British Library lessons learned. Personal info of 43 million French citizens may have been leaked. McDonlad's outage caused by third-party configuration error.

January 2024

January 2024


Vol. 7, Iss. 2
Robin’s Newsletter #291
Vol. 7, Iss. 2

SEC Twitter account compromised; used to swing Bitcoin price. Pro-Ukraine group launches retaliatory attack on Russian ISP.

November 2023

November 2023


Vol. 6, Iss. 48
Robin’s Newsletter #284
Vol. 6, Iss. 48

Warning over Lazarus software supply-chain attacks. Australia cyber security strategy published.

August 2023

August 2023


Vol. 6, Iss. 35
Robin’s Newsletter #271
Vol. 6, Iss. 35

Lapsus$ group pair court verdict. Ransomware dwell times are down. Cloud providers looses all their customers data in ransomware incident.

April 2023

April 2023


Vol. 6, Iss. 17
Robin’s Newsletter #253
Vol. 6, Iss. 17

Customer data stolen in Capita breach. 3CX was a 'cascading' supply-chain breach. UK faces 'Wagner-like' cyber threat.

February 2023

February 2023


Vol. 6, Iss. 8
Robin’s Newsletter #244
Vol. 6, Iss. 8

Twitter to charge for SMS MFA. 'Anonymous' ideological attacks. GoDaddy discloses multi-year breach. The proliferation of 'risk dashboards'.

July 2021

July 2021


Vol. 4, Iss. 28
Robin’s Newsletter #160
Vol. 4, Iss. 28

More on Kaseya. The PrintNightmare continues. Farmers win 'right to repair' and Kaspersky's not-so-random number generator.


Vol. 4, Iss. 27
Robin’s Newsletter #159
Vol. 4, Iss. 27

Kaseya VSA used to launch 'over 1,000' ransomware attacks. Security researchers cause PrintNightmare. EU grants UK data protection adequacy decision.

April 2021

April 2021


Vol. 4, Iss. 17
Robin’s Newsletter #149
Vol. 4, Iss. 17

Ransomware in Apple's supply chain. Facebook seeks to 'normalise' scraping. The balkanisation of the Internet has intelligence agencies worried. Cellebrite's iPhone unlocking system is full of vulnerabilities.

February 2021

February 2021


Vol. 4, Iss. 7
Robin’s Newsletter #139
Vol. 4, Iss. 7

Dependency confusion: all up in your package manager and automated build process. Florida water treatment plant compromised. Details of cyber-attacks on Isis. Bloomberg back again with The ~~Big~~ Long Hack.

December 2020

December 2020


Vol. 3, Iss. 51
Robin’s Newsletter #131
Vol. 3, Iss. 51

SUNBURST attack on U.S. government is both huge, and nothing new. Google suffers multiple outages. Automated attacks on online banking.


Vol. 3, Iss. 49
Robin’s Newsletter #129
Vol. 3, Iss. 49

TrickBot is recovering from CyberCom, Microsoft takedowns, gains UEFI/BIOS capabilities. 'Cold chain' of COVID-19 vaccine targeted. Zero-click exploit in Apple iPhone.