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Today seems like a good day to repost this piece I wrote a few weeks back.
How CISOs can defend against Scattered Spider ransomware attacks
https://www.csoonline.com/article/3994369/how-cisos-can-defend-against-scattered-s…

How CISOs can defend against Scattered Spider ransomware attacks
CISOs should fortify help desk and employee defenses, enhance intrusion detection and tracking capabilities, and recognize that paying ransoms is not a viable strategy.

Doppelte Erpressung möglich: Cyberkriminelle im Clinch
Zwischen zwei rivalisierenden kriminellen Ransomware-Gruppen ist Streit ausgebrochen. Cyberexperten warnen, dass Unternehmen doppelt erpresst werden könnten.

2025 NFL Division Power Rankings: NFC/AFC North reign supreme, while NFC/AFC South bring up rear https://www.nfl.com/news/2025-nfl-division-power-rankings-nfc-afc-north-reign-supreme-while-nfc-afc-south-bring-up-rear

Harnessing Pairwise Ranking Prompting Through Sample-Efficient Ranking Distillation
Junru Wu, Le Yan, Zhen Qin, Honglei Zhuang, Paul Suganthan G. C., Tianqi Liu, Zhe Dong, Xuanhui Wang, Harrie Oosterhuis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04820

Harnessing Pairwise Ranking Prompting Through Sample-Efficient Ranking Distillation
While Pairwise Ranking Prompting (PRP) with Large Language Models (LLMs) is one of the most effective zero-shot document ranking methods, it has a quadratic computational complexity with respect to the number of documents to be ranked, as it requires an enumeration over all possible document pairs. Consequently, the outstanding ranking performance of PRP has remained unreachable for most real-world ranking applications. In this work, we propose to harness the effectiveness of PRP through pair…

Strong Rupert Holmes vibes here.
I love that Holmes couldn’t find a word that fit into his metre when he wrote Escape, so he inserted “pina colada”—he’d never had one, but thought it sounded exotic—only to taste one years later, shrug, and not think it particularly exciting.
https://comics.town/@roon…

Roonie the Rabbit (@rooniecomics@comics.town)
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Regardless of the weather, the cyber world is always hot, so check out today's Metacurity for the crucial infosec developments you should know, including
--M&S and Qantas leaders remain mum on ransomware payments,
--M&S chairman says two other British companies' ransomware attacks have gone unreported,
--5.7m customers impacted by Qantas attack,
--US sanctions DPRK man for IT worker scheme,
--DoJ seeks to bring COVID hacker to US,
--Rubio im…

M&S and Qantas leaders remain mum on ransomware payments
M&S chairman says two other British companies' ransomware attacks have gone unreported, 5.7m customers impacted by Qantas attack, US sanctions DPRK man for IT worker scheme, DoJ seeks to bring COVID hacker to US, Rubio impersonated in AI voice effort, MSFT patches 137+ flaws, much more

🏈 Fantasy Draft Guide: Rankings, mock, analysis https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/page/FFDraftGuide25-45508190/2025-fantasy-football-rankings-mock-draft-cheat-sheets-sleepers

Qantas confirms it has been in contact with its ransomware attackers.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jul/07/qantas-contacted-by-suspected-cyber-criminal-but-airline-wont-confirm-if-ha…

Which new NFL head coach will win most in 2025? Brian Schottenheimer, Ben Johnson top my rankings https://www.nfl.com/news/which-new-nfl-head-coach-will-win-most-in-2025-brian-schottenheimer-ben-johnson-top-my-rankings…

Ranking all 32 RB1s heading into 2025 NFL season: Omarion Hampton above fellow rookie Ashton Jeanty https://www.nfl.com/news/ranking-all-32-rb1s-heading-into-2025-nfl-season-omarion-hampton-above-fellow-rookie-ashton-jeant…