Joe Gardiner
@thecyberjoe.bsky.social
Lecturer in Cyber Sec of CPS (ICS,OT, IoT) at the University of Bristol. Director and Instructor at @hacktonics.bsky.social
We're doing a BSides!
Follow the page on here or find us on LinkedIn for updates
Follow the page on here or find us on LinkedIn for updates
BSIdes OT UK is happening on the 10th April 2026 at the University of Bristol!
Go to our webpage for more details on the call for talks, sponsorship and our logo competition
bsidesot.uk
Go to our webpage for more details on the call for talks, sponsorship and our logo competition
bsidesot.uk
November 7, 2025 at 1:20 PM
We're doing a BSides!
Follow the page on here or find us on LinkedIn for updates
Follow the page on here or find us on LinkedIn for updates
If your into OT security, we have just released LINICS, our new free ICS testing distribution. This includes a number of tools, including some we have built ourselves!
Please do get in touch if you have any questions, or would like to contribute!
Please do get in touch if you have any questions, or would like to contribute!
Delighted to announce the public release of LINICS®, our new Linux® based distro for pen testing ICS systems and networks. It includes a number of specialist OT security tools including some we built. And, yes, LINICS is free for all to use!
Read more on our blog:
www.hacktonics.io/linics-1-01-...
Read more on our blog:
www.hacktonics.io/linics-1-01-...
April 16, 2025 at 7:54 AM
If your into OT security, we have just released LINICS, our new free ICS testing distribution. This includes a number of tools, including some we have built ourselves!
Please do get in touch if you have any questions, or would like to contribute!
Please do get in touch if you have any questions, or would like to contribute!
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Oh. Good. That won’t be a problem.
February 15, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Oh. Good. That won’t be a problem.
We've released some preliminary research today demonstrating fine tuning attacks which can bypass the safety mechanism of DeepSeek-R1. These simple attacks show that DeepSeek's safety can be easily removed to provide harmful content, and potentially to a worse extent to non-reasoning LLMs.
New AI app DeepSeek poses ‘severe’ safety risk, according to new research
A fresh University of Bristol study has uncovered significant safety risks associated with new ChatGPT rival DeepSeek.
bristol.ac.uk
February 3, 2025 at 3:00 PM
We've released some preliminary research today demonstrating fine tuning attacks which can bypass the safety mechanism of DeepSeek-R1. These simple attacks show that DeepSeek's safety can be easily removed to provide harmful content, and potentially to a worse extent to non-reasoning LLMs.
First day of the first full week of three of teaching ICS security!
January 13, 2025 at 10:46 AM
First day of the first full week of three of teaching ICS security!
12 Allen Bradley teaching boxes delivered today ready for the first week of our cyber MSc ICS security unit next week. With the 6 we already have and 4 more being built we will have 22 Allen Bradley boxes to go with our 25 Siemens boxes, and will soon expand to 20 IoT/IIoT boards to go with them!
January 7, 2025 at 2:55 PM
12 Allen Bradley teaching boxes delivered today ready for the first week of our cyber MSc ICS security unit next week. With the 6 we already have and 4 more being built we will have 22 Allen Bradley boxes to go with our 25 Siemens boxes, and will soon expand to 20 IoT/IIoT boards to go with them!
What in the actual hell?
January 6, 2025 at 10:08 AM
What in the actual hell?
Excited! I've been wanting to see Del Amitri for years. My dad is a long time fan and also his first time seeing them
December 8, 2024 at 7:34 PM
Excited! I've been wanting to see Del Amitri for years. My dad is a long time fan and also his first time seeing them
First time getting one of the UK emergency mobile alerts that isn't a test!
December 6, 2024 at 7:05 PM
First time getting one of the UK emergency mobile alerts that isn't a test!
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Do you or your company require Industrial Control Systems security training, up-skilling or re-skilling? We have example courses on our website, but will work with you to create a training programme that best suits your needs - hacktonics.io/courses
December 6, 2024 at 3:19 PM
Do you or your company require Industrial Control Systems security training, up-skilling or re-skilling? We have example courses on our website, but will work with you to create a training programme that best suits your needs - hacktonics.io/courses
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AI chatbot startup WotNot leaks 346,000 files, including passports and medical records
https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/ai-chatbot-startup-wotnot-leaks-346-000-files-including-passports-and-medical-records
https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/ai-chatbot-startup-wotnot-leaks-346-000-files-including-passports-and-medical-records
AI chatbot startup WotNot leaks 346,000 files, including passports and medical records
An Indian AI startup that helps businesses build custom chatbots has leaked almost 350,000 sensitive files after the data was left unsecured on the web.
www.bitdefender.com
December 4, 2024 at 6:39 PM
AI chatbot startup WotNot leaks 346,000 files, including passports and medical records
https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/ai-chatbot-startup-wotnot-leaks-346-000-files-including-passports-and-medical-records
https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/ai-chatbot-startup-wotnot-leaks-346-000-files-including-passports-and-medical-records
Oh no they are here!
November 27, 2024 at 3:56 PM
Oh no they are here!
For some reason I've been suspended on Twitter. No idea why as I haven't posted in a week!
November 27, 2024 at 3:30 PM
For some reason I've been suspended on Twitter. No idea why as I haven't posted in a week!
Today is water plant cleaning day! It was due a full water change and clean of the tanks. I love doing OT security research but this is definitely the less glamorous side 😅
November 22, 2024 at 12:05 PM
Today is water plant cleaning day! It was due a full water change and clean of the tanks. I love doing OT security research but this is definitely the less glamorous side 😅
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CTO at NCSC Summary: week ending November 17th
Zero-days everywhere...
ctoatncsc.substack.com
November 16, 2024 at 11:57 AM
That awkward moment when you find a paper has fully plagiarised one of your own published works, and you only discover it by the plagiarisers making the fatal mistake of citing the paper they copied!
November 16, 2024 at 10:57 AM
That awkward moment when you find a paper has fully plagiarised one of your own published works, and you only discover it by the plagiarisers making the fatal mistake of citing the paper they copied!
Prototype of a new little demo I'm working on. Process manipulation of a running ICS process from an android phone on the wifi. Simple app for identifying IPs, Siemens devices then using library to interact with device and cause boxes to be incorrectly sort! Now to apply it to the water plant...
November 12, 2024 at 3:50 PM
Prototype of a new little demo I'm working on. Process manipulation of a running ICS process from an android phone on the wifi. Simple app for identifying IPs, Siemens devices then using library to interact with device and cause boxes to be incorrectly sort! Now to apply it to the water plant...
Twitter is becoming unusable, so let's give this one another shot!
November 8, 2024 at 11:12 AM
Twitter is becoming unusable, so let's give this one another shot!
Let's see how this one goes then!
September 27, 2023 at 4:15 PM
Let's see how this one goes then!