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Matt Simpson on 2026-10-12 06:28 am 🚀

Innocuous In Innisfil 🇨🇦 on 2026-10-12 06:14 am

Good Morning #Canada
Depending on your latitude the #FallColours are on full display or getting ready to put on a show. If you're looking for the ideal #RoadTrip to experience this annual show then put the Agawa Canyon train tour on your list for next year (I think it may be too late for 2026). My wife and I took this train ride in the 80s and it was worth the day long investment.

#CanadaIsAwesome #TravelCanada #VintageTrains
Agawa Canyon
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/agawa-canyon-ontario

Agawa Canyon

Follow in the footsteps of the Group of Seven with fall foliage train tours through Ontario's Agawa Canyon, one of Canada's 50 Places of a Lifetime.

Matt Simpson on 2026-10-09 10:11 pm

TIL: You can pick up a fully locked #Android phone and turn on its WiFi hotspot. That feels a lot like a feature that should only be accessible when unlocked.

Matt Simpson on 2026-10-09 07:43 pm 🚀

BrianKrebs on 2026-10-09 07:30 pm

Breaking, new, by me:

Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Thursday arrested an executive at a Canadian cybersecurity firm in connection with an investigation into the ShinyHunters hacking group that recently relieved the FBI of sensitive data on thousands of agents, multiple sources tell KrebsOnSecurity.

From the story:

"Dubrovsky’s LinkedIn profile states he is the author of Cyber Extortion Strategic Response, a 252-page book that promises to “take readers beyond the ransom note and into the decisions that determine how an organization responds, recovers, and protects what matters.”

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/10/fbi-arrests-founder-of-ransomware-negotiation-firm/

#FBI #shinyhunters #ransomware #cybercrime

edit: Cypfer said Dubrovsky was a managing director until leaving in Nov. 2025, not an ex-founder as his LinkedIn profile says. This link backs that up, saying he was COO and managing partner:

https://cypfer.com/es/modern-slavery/#:~:text=COO%20and%20Managing%20Partner

A book cover picture on Amazon, of a book called
Cyber Extortion Strategic Response
by Ed Dubrovsky.

A practice manual for leaders on managing coercive events, negotiation and settlement strategies, is the tagline.

The cover art shows a man in a suit with his back to us and facing a sunset and a brick path that diverges in front of him. Beyond is a misty countryside and mountains.

Matt Simpson on 2026-10-07 09:40 am

The prompt that will drive #AI (Microsoft Copilot) off the edge in Microsoft Word:

Review the entire document and correct all visual and formatting inconsistencies. Make the font family, font size, line spacing, paragraph spacing, alignment, and indentation consistent throughout. Standardise all numbered and bulleted lists, ensuring that numbering is sequential, list levels are correct, and indentation is consistent. Preserve the document’s wording and structure, and do not rewrite or remove any content.

#MicrosoftWord #AIPranks