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A supermarket worker uses a probe thermometer and clipboard to check the temperature of empty, fogged-up freezer cabinets, with the aisle closed off, after a cyber attack on the store’s refrigeration systems

Defrosted overnight: the French supermarket cyber attack and How it describes my job

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When someone asks me what I do for a living, I usually take a breath before answering. Business continuity, crisis management, information security, data protection, emergency planning, exercising, training…. People’s eyes start to glaze over somewhere around the third item, and I can see them filing me under “something in IT” or “health and safety,

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The Fault Lasted a Millisecond. The Recovery Took Days.

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On 8 September, a defect in the software that allocates radar identification codes to aircraft over the UK lasted, by NATS’ own account, a matter of milliseconds. Controllers lost the ability to tell which blip on their screens belonged to which flight without switching to manual coordination, and restrictions went on across the whole of

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A Researcher Just Put a Number on Human Extinction. Your Risk Register Needs a Different One.

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This week produced three AI stories that look separate but aren’t. Anthropic’s own alignment lead put a number on AI wiping out humanity: a chance he personally puts at more than 10% within the next decade. The company’s latest Threat Intelligence Report disclosed that it has spent the months since December 2025 detecting and blocking

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Warehouse worker checking stock levels beside wrapped pallets, part of the UK's food supply chain, as storm clouds gather overhead

Stockpile the Tins. Audit the Supply Chain.

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On Friday, the government told the country to start putting food aside. Environment Secretary Dame Angela Eagle said the UK is heading into what could be the largest El Niño event since records began in the nineteenth century, with sea temperatures in the Pacific running more than three degrees above average. The practical translation for

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A Forgotten Certificate Just Broke Email for Millions. That’s the Real Story.

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On Monday evening, Outlook and Exchange Online stopped working. Not for one company, for a meaningful slice of the world. People couldn’t log in. Messages sat unsent. Search returned nothing. IT teams spent hours fielding calls from colleagues who couldn’t do their jobs, because the one tool most of us touch fifty times a day

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Minimum Viable Company: What’s Actually New Here?

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A term with real momentum, four different definitions, and a decade-old cousin nobody mentions. Ask four different advisers to define “Minimum Viable Company” and you’ll get four different answers, all wearing the same three letters. That’s usually the first sign a term hasn’t earned its place in the vocabulary yet — and it’s worth working

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The most predictable risk in resilience planning is also the most ignored one

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Look at the last few days. Heathrow spent part of last week warning passengers off the roads after flooding closed access to two terminals. A flood warning is in force for Nelson in Lancashire, with alerts out across Merseyside and the North East, arriving straight after weeks dry enough to count as drought, and yellow

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The Real Cost of a Breach Just Went Up Again — Here’s What the Number Doesn’t Tell You

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IBM published its Cost of a Data Breach Report last month, and the headline figure is the one everyone will quote: the global average cost of a breach has hit a record $4.99 million, a 12% increase on last year. In the UK specifically, that average sits at around $4.27 million (£3.13 million). Numbers like

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One Power Failure, Seven Train Operators Down: What That Tells Us About Dependency Mapping

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This afternoon, a power failure at a communications centre brought major disruption to rail services across the Midlands and north-west England. Avanti West Coast, CrossCountry, East Midlands Railway, London Northwestern, Northern, TransPennine Express and Transport for Wales were all affected. Not one operator having a bad day. Seven, at once, because of a single point

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