Bluepurple Pulse: week ending June 4th

Future science and technology skills of use are evident - how do we mobilize vocational learning and development at scale to address?

Welcome to the weekly highlights and analysis of the blueteamsec subreddit (and my wider reading). Not everything makes it in, but the best bits do.

Operationally this week nothing overly of note but you will also see there is no abating in the number of threat actors who are taking a swing.

In the high-level this week:

• Ciaran Martin argues that cyberspace is finally, if unevenly, getting safer - there are lessons for the latest panic over artificial intelligence (ai). The current apocalyptic warnings of the wholesale destruction of jobs, truth and even human life itself are eerily reminiscent of the peak “cybergeddon” period in the early part of this century.

• GCHQ’s Jeremy Fleming: ‘Xi doesn’t want to see Putin humiliated’ - So far, GCHQ has not seen evidence of Chinese cyber assistance to Russia. “The risk is, as it is on more traditional munitions and military support, that the Chinese state in some of those areas decides that they want to support President Putin’s Russia,” says Flem…