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Cybersecurity reporter at Bloomberg News in Washington DC. Signal: @howelloneill.01, email: [email protected]
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Walz announces that Rep. Melissa Hortman is dead as a result of a "politically motivated assassination"

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US scrambles to bring back VOA’s Persian service amid Iran-Israel conflict politi.co/3HHsTQ4, via @politico.com

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there's a small but substantial and really well informed natsec niche of this site but 80% of them dont use their real name so it's like "Dr Jennifer Butthole" with a Heathers-era Winona Ryder avatar doling out the most erudite insights about Iranian military leadership and foreign entanglements

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NEW: Citizen Lab have confirmed two journalists had their phones hacked with Paragon's Graphite spyware, likely by the same customer. The now-confirmed infections call into question a report by Italian lawmakers, which didn't mention one of the hacked journalists. @lorenzofb.bsky.social reports:

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Scoop: CISA Executive Director Bridget Bean is retiring, according to an email that Deputy Director Madhu Gottumukkala sent to employees last night. Bean has worked at CISA since December 2021 and in government (SBA and FEMA) since 1994 (minus a short consulting stint in 2021).

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Thoughts concerning "what (really) is 'Salt Typhoon'" and the danger of "TA A, also known as TA B" statements without detail, explaination, or background: pylos.co/2025/06/11/a...

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Chinese intelligence agents stepped up efforts to recruit Russian officials, experts, journalists and businesspeople close to power in Moscow according to a leaked FSB document

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“U.S. military fabricated evidence of alien technology and allowed rumors to fester to cover up real secret-weapons programs“ www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

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In light of the news this week that Cellebrite has acquired Corellium, here's an in-depth piece I previously wrote about Cellebrite, which looks at how the Israeli firm became the go-to hackers for the FBI and other federal agencies who want to get physical access into locked phones they seize

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Is it just me or is OKC strangely quiet?

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Seeing a lot of posts about communicating with “people who aren’t online.” I don’t believe any of you

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Remember when people used to say online isn't real life. That was nice

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When Ross Ulbricht received a mystery $31 million bitcoin donation Saturday, some guessed he was sending himself old Silk Road profits. Crypto tracers now tell me they suspect a much stranger source for the money: a vendor from the defunct dark web market AlphaBay. www.wired.com/story/ross-u...

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Big move in this niche techcrunch.com/2025/06/05/p...

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New episode of DISCARDED featuring the great @alexcp.bsky.social discussing the 2025 Verizon DBIR! Join us for hot takes, insights into the current threat landscape, interesting findings about vulnerability exploitation and third-party risk, and so much more. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

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New: Trump's proposed CISA budget would cut $425M and >1,000 positions, w/ deep cuts to partner engagement & risk analysis. Cuts would affect vuln assessments, shared services, trainings, election security, intl affairs, & more. My story w/ full details: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/cisa-tr...

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Interesting non-cyber but definitely cyber story: CrowdStrike Says DOJ, SEC Sent Inquiries on Firm Accounting www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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news: Chinese hackers breached a US telecom in 2023, a year before the intelligence community said it started spotting Salt Typhoon clues. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Happy to report that I’m back in journalism: Today is my first day as @bloomberg.com's cybersecurity reporter in Washington, DC. Please reach out and say hi, especially if we haven't spoken in a while.

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The asymmetry here is staggering. Not my area here, but not sure how any exposed airframe is gonna be able to survive an attack by swarm. The cost of destroying them is just too relatively low. A milllion dollar op vs a billion dollar airframe is a smart investment.

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not hyperbole to say this is the worst day in Russian aviation since Barbarossa. One of the bases they hit, Belaya, is near lake Baikal. Its closer to Japan than Ukraine

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Eliminated: Belaya (31.05): 7 Tu-160; 6 Tu-95MS; 2 Il-78M; 6 An-26; 2 An-12; 39 Tu-22M3; 30 MiG-31. Olenya (26.05): 11 Tu-95MS; 5 An-12; 40 Tu-22M3. At least 2 more airbases were also attacked: Ivanovo and Dyagilevo Source: AviVector via MAKS25

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Deep in mental gymnastics mode. It's actually good for my health that the Knicks lost. Less stress, better sleep. Probably be a boon to my career. Gonna wake up refreshed and ready to take on the world. Might do some chores tomorrow, be real productive. This is great actually. Wonderful stuff

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