Recovering pentester, security pragmatist. Head of security at a place, many other hats. 👩🏽💻🏳️🌈 Personal views. @Secvalve@cloudisland.Nz
Joined June 2010
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Kate Pearce retweeted
29 Mar 2024
@rossjanderson Professor Ross Anderson, FRS, FREng Dear friend and treasured long term campaigner for privacy and security, Professor of Security Engineering at Cambridge University and Edinburgh University, Lovelace Medal winner, has died suddenly at home in Cambridge.
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Kate Pearce retweeted
26 May 2021
Important note about cyber security and media interaction during active incidents:
When those who know the details can’t talk, those who can talk won’t know the details.
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Kate Pearce retweeted
12 Aug 2023
Do NOT season the pigeons
ALT A “do not” sign with a hand sprinkling some stuff on top of a bird
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Kate Pearce retweeted
8 Aug 2023
Dropping #Downfall, exploiting speculative forwarding of 'Gather' instruction to steal data from hardware registers. #MeltdownSequel
- Practical to exploit (POC/Demo)
- Defeat all isolation boundaries (OS, VM, SGX)
- Bypass all Meltdown/MDS mitigations.
downfall.page
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Kate Pearce retweeted
15 Jul 2023
Where @dotMudge makes an important point at @SummerC0n: real data on ATOs shows that SMS 2FA is fine for the vast majority of users. It prevented 100% of 3.3B automated password stuffing attacks, 96% of 12M bulk phishing, and even 76% of <10k targeted attacks seen over last year.
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12 Jul 2023
This tweet bought to you by the one person with overlapping interests.
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9 Jul 2023
“Machine Unlearning” sounds like a joke, but it’s a very real thing that has huge value if we can figure it out: ai.googleblog.com/2023/06/an…
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2 Jul 2023
Which is worse?
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Production in Test
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Testing in Prod
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— Just show results
69 votes • Final results
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6 Jun 2023
Shelley Bay is on fire. Best i could get through my scope while tired
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6 Jun 2023
I’m 5km away with a phone and a scope. It was incredibly noticeable and bright.
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