Brian Honan

CEO of BH Consulting. Speaker, Blogger, Author, Founder & Head of Ireland's CSIRT (IRISSCERT), & former Special Advisor on CyberSecurity to Europol.

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2026-04-20 20:23:07 UTC

Interesting story of an Irish company falling victim to BEC fraud. Criminals hijacked an employee’s email account in the victim company. They then used that account to send payment instructions to the company’s outsourced financial admin company. The victim company lost €2 million.
The victim company is now suing the payments company on the basis that the payment company should have spotted that the emails were fraudulent
https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/company-has-more-than-2m-stolen-from-account-following-cyber-attack/a479313478.html

2026-04-14 14:32:25 UTC

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@nprofile…adl2 @nprofile…hmra this is me doing my nails 🤣🤣🤣
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/403/543/494/223/884/original/36bf156d657d544d.mp4

2026-03-31 10:31:49 UTC

Many thanks to Mirko Zorz and the team at @nprofile…rj2j magazine for allowing me to rant about my dislike for the phrase "Human are the weakest link" when it comes to #Cybersecurity
In fact humans are our "last line of defence" when all our tech has failed or been bypassed
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/03/31/cybersecurity-design-failures-not-human-error/

2026-03-31 10:19:54 UTC

Reading people's posts about #RSAC and can't help feeling this is what is was like
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/323/082/814/078/610/original/b3576de44322e87a.jpg

2025-04-03 14:30:52 UTC

Just putting this up for no particular reason :)
#OracleBreach #Oracle #CyberSecurity
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/274/506/690/020/341/original/002170118069a349.jpg

2025-02-26 18:24:31 UTC

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@nprofile…v6nv have a look at @nprofile…ysvw work as they have a lot of good material for journalists to work securely online