Joe Tidy BBC News
@joetidy.bsky.social
Cyber Correspondent, BBC News. Author of Ctrl+Alt+Chaos. I cover cyber security, online safety, crypto, AI, social networks and everything 💻📱📡. Global news mainly. DMs always open for tips/ feedback.
I LOVE how unhinged and melodramatic the official EU Parliament TikTok account is about the USBC law. Here all day for it.
November 19, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I LOVE how unhinged and melodramatic the official EU Parliament TikTok account is about the USBC law. Here all day for it.
Pleasure to do a keynote and book signing at the Irish Reporting and Information Security Service conference today. At the Aviva Stadium in Dublin no less! Thanks for the invite @brianhonan.bsky.social 🇮🇪#irisscon
November 5, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Pleasure to do a keynote and book signing at the Irish Reporting and Information Security Service conference today. At the Aviva Stadium in Dublin no less! Thanks for the invite @brianhonan.bsky.social 🇮🇪#irisscon
Pleased to announce my publisher has ordered another print run of my book as we have very nearly sold out of the first print! The second print run will fix the 2 typos that eagle-eyed readers pointed out to me. So if your copy has the typos - you now have a collectosr 1tem!
November 4, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Pleased to announce my publisher has ordered another print run of my book as we have very nearly sold out of the first print! The second print run will fix the 2 typos that eagle-eyed readers pointed out to me. So if your copy has the typos - you now have a collectosr 1tem!
October 31, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Proof if proof be need be that Twitter is now almost unusable. Just saw this on a major account on X.
October 31, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Proof if proof be need be that Twitter is now almost unusable. Just saw this on a major account on X.
Dramatic vid of Russian alleged hackers being arrested in... Russia. Rare to see this kind of activity but even rarer to see convictions. Love that one of the suspects was arrested wearing Hello Kitty pyjamas. Maybe that is the real reason for the raid... www.infostealers.com/article/russ...
October 31, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Dramatic vid of Russian alleged hackers being arrested in... Russia. Rare to see this kind of activity but even rarer to see convictions. Love that one of the suspects was arrested wearing Hello Kitty pyjamas. Maybe that is the real reason for the raid... www.infostealers.com/article/russ...
Listening to this song as this is what I saw on my clock this morning when I woke up. Cheers daylight savings...
October 27, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Listening to this song as this is what I saw on my clock this morning when I woke up. Cheers daylight savings...
Thanks to The Next Big Idea Club for choosing my book as a 'Must Read' for January when it comes out in the US! 😍 🥳
October 26, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Thanks to The Next Big Idea Club for choosing my book as a 'Must Read' for January when it comes out in the US! 😍 🥳
My favourite part of the AWS outage coverage so far. On a Sky News live page post about people’s biggest worries about the outage:
October 20, 2025 at 9:36 AM
My favourite part of the AWS outage coverage so far. On a Sky News live page post about people’s biggest worries about the outage:
Personal news. I'm starting a Series-A funding round for my new cyber startup guys. Who wants shares?
October 16, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Personal news. I'm starting a Series-A funding round for my new cyber startup guys. Who wants shares?
M&S, The Co-op, Harrods, JLR, TfL, Kido nurseries. Teen hackers are being blamed for carrying out the biggest recent cyber attacks. In fact 7 British boys have been arrested so far this year for these hacks. People keep asking me what is going on and I keep paraphrasing this passage from my book:
October 12, 2025 at 5:29 PM
M&S, The Co-op, Harrods, JLR, TfL, Kido nurseries. Teen hackers are being blamed for carrying out the biggest recent cyber attacks. In fact 7 British boys have been arrested so far this year for these hacks. People keep asking me what is going on and I keep paraphrasing this passage from my book:
My book's been out for 16 weeks now and I have signed more than 650 copies to give to people at events or send in the post. I will NEVER get tired of this! Making Ctrl+Alt+Chaos has been the hardest but most rewarding thing in my career.
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October 3, 2025 at 3:19 PM
My book's been out for 16 weeks now and I have signed more than 650 copies to give to people at events or send in the post. I will NEVER get tired of this! Making Ctrl+Alt+Chaos has been the hardest but most rewarding thing in my career.
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Interesting. The hackers have messaged me to say they are now blurring the images of children. Even they now see how that their actions are beyond the pale. (Still continuing the extortion though). My conversation with them:
September 27, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Interesting. The hackers have messaged me to say they are now blurring the images of children. Even they now see how that their actions are beyond the pale. (Still continuing the extortion though). My conversation with them:
Note to self - make sure my next book has f**k in the title.
September 17, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Note to self - make sure my next book has f**k in the title.
The CEO on the security failings in the commission:
September 10, 2025 at 10:14 AM
The CEO on the security failings in the commission:
With events in Qatar yesterday our interview with the Elections watchdog didn't make it to air. So here are some of the clips of the interview.
September 10, 2025 at 10:11 AM
With events in Qatar yesterday our interview with the Elections watchdog didn't make it to air. So here are some of the clips of the interview.
The Telegram group of (probably) kids who’ve been hacking companies like Jaguar Land Rover and then bragging about it has closed down - this time they did it. 52k people have been following this small gang of nihilistic criminals. One of them/ a fan even got a tattoo of the group…
September 9, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The Telegram group of (probably) kids who’ve been hacking companies like Jaguar Land Rover and then bragging about it has closed down - this time they did it. 52k people have been following this small gang of nihilistic criminals. One of them/ a fan even got a tattoo of the group…
Vid summary of our story today - It's taken three years to recover from China hack, UK election watchdog says. Full story here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
September 9, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Vid summary of our story today - It's taken three years to recover from China hack, UK election watchdog says. Full story here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Tube strike in London today has brought out legions of cyclists. Great to see it!
September 9, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Tube strike in London today has brought out legions of cyclists. Great to see it!
This cookies pop up made me laugh out loud. 'We value your privacy'..... along with our 1650 partners!!
September 3, 2025 at 7:58 AM
This cookies pop up made me laugh out loud. 'We value your privacy'..... along with our 1650 partners!!
For this week's TechDecoded I wrote about the "unprecedented corporate accumulation" of bitcoin taking place. Apparently nearly 200 firms are now building bitcoin reserves. Got me thinking: How would Satoshi feel about Bitcoin now? Sign up to the newsletter here: cloud.email.bbc.com/techdecoded-...
August 22, 2025 at 4:30 PM
For this week's TechDecoded I wrote about the "unprecedented corporate accumulation" of bitcoin taking place. Apparently nearly 200 firms are now building bitcoin reserves. Got me thinking: How would Satoshi feel about Bitcoin now? Sign up to the newsletter here: cloud.email.bbc.com/techdecoded-...
AI crawlers and fetchers are blowing up websites, with Meta and OpenAI the worst offenders. New research from Fastly follows what Cloudflare said earlier this month. Seems inevitable that something has to give. www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/a...
August 22, 2025 at 7:41 AM
AI crawlers and fetchers are blowing up websites, with Meta and OpenAI the worst offenders. New research from Fastly follows what Cloudflare said earlier this month. Seems inevitable that something has to give. www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/a...
HBO has made a documentary series about Julius Kivimaki and the Vastaamo hack (along similar lines to my book). They came to interview me for it last year and it looks good. But also - hilarious that the producers felt they needed to photoshop a hoody onto Kivimaki to prove he is a hacker! 😂
August 18, 2025 at 4:46 PM
HBO has made a documentary series about Julius Kivimaki and the Vastaamo hack (along similar lines to my book). They came to interview me for it last year and it looks good. But also - hilarious that the producers felt they needed to photoshop a hoody onto Kivimaki to prove he is a hacker! 😂
So unrofessional when people don't proof read their emails...
August 13, 2025 at 12:11 PM
So unrofessional when people don't proof read their emails...
Good news here from Databarracks - number of UK businesses which are paying hacker ransoms is plunging. Only a small survey sample (500 respondents) but a good sign. datahealthcheck.databarracks.com/2025/
August 13, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Good news here from Databarracks - number of UK businesses which are paying hacker ransoms is plunging. Only a small survey sample (500 respondents) but a good sign. datahealthcheck.databarracks.com/2025/