Argentina is reporting that there is a good population of illex squid in its waters ready for fishing, and is working to ensure that Chinese fishing boats don’t take it all.

As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.

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David Kahn has died. His groundbreaking book, The Codebreakers was the first serious book I read about codebreaking, and one of the primary reasons I entered this field.

He will be missed.

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Data and software services firm Blackbaud’s cybersecurity was criticised as “lax” and “shoddy” by the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in a damning post-mortem of the business’s February 2020 data breach.

Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

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China-sponsored attacks likened to “placing bombs in water treatment facilities, and power plants”.

Is it just me, or does this sound like the plot of a Mission Impossible movie?

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The Tinder-like app has countered claims of being a hot spot for sextortion scammers

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