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Putting his country first.

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Congratulations 🎉! To the team at @districtcon.bsky.social on a great first year! I had a ton of FOMO not being able to make it, but I love everything about what you are doing. Cheers 🥂 to many more successful years!

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If you are near Baltimore today stop by StellarCon and buy some comics!

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One of my crowns came off this week while eating a Sugar Daddy. So, I went to the dentist to get it re-attached. Which entailed explaining what happened, then further explaining I meant the candy and not some rich old dude. Honestly, I considered just being toothless.

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We at the Internet Society are deeply disappointed that Apple has had to stop offering end-to-end encryption in the UK. The following can be attributed to Dr. Joseph Lorenzo Hall, Distinguished Technologist at the Internet Society: 1/

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Northern Virginia hackers stop by Mustang Sally brewing tonight to play pinball and hang out with other hackers!

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Great write up of the Black Basta leaks from @bleepingcomputer.com. There is so much great information (as I am sure many of you are spending your Friday parsing) in these logs. The Conti leaks were boon to intelligence organizations and, more importantly, law enforcement. Today, we feast!

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Heads up…looks like a new phishing campaign targeting WIX website owners. Stay safe.

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DOGE access to Social Security, IRS data could create privacy and security risks, experts say via @suzannesmalley.bsky.social

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Good overview from @talosintelligence.com on what is happening with Volt Typhoon in the Telco Infrastructure.

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“What’s the point of fighting #cybercrime if we’re just going to give access... to people with cybercriminal gang affiliations?” via @kimzetter.bsky.social @wired.com h/t @mattburgess1.bsky.social cc @gate15.bsky.social @heinbrian.bsky.social @nixonnixoff.bsky.social @ransomwaresommelier.com

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7000! From one group of call centers in one country. However large most people think these romance / pig butchering organizations are, they are probably orders of magnitude larger. And, remember, these people are victims as well. Basically lured into slave labor. via @therecordmedia.bsky.social

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Unsurprisingly, with every privacy guide telling people to use Signal, it is now a much bigger target. If you can, you should be donating to the Signal foundation so @meredithmeredith.bsky.social and team can keep ahead of these threats.

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No one tell @andyjabbour.bsky.social but I had a terrible case of food poisoning when we did our interview. Bit, I was so excited to finally get on the show I powered through, but I was definitely feeling it toward the end. Still loved the chance to catch up with one of the best people I know.

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Christ… 🤮 We all knew this would happen, but seeing it unfold in real time is so much worse.

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Lee Enterprises newspaper disruptions caused by ransomware attack via @bleepingcomputer.com

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Elon Musk ridiculed a blind person on X. Then a mob went to work. Musk’s unparalleled online reach has given him a powerful tool to attack individuals who criticize DOGE. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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This is a great point, we discuss hybrid cyber / kinetic attacks a lot in reporting and research, but really they are all attacks and we have to defend against them holistically. via @alexmartin.bsky.social & @therecordmedia.bsky.social

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New Blog! Investigating Anonymous VPS services used by Ransomware Gangs h/t to @drb_ra for lending me some of their C2 data! Made my life a lot easier 🫡 🔗 blog.bushidotoken.net/2025/02/inve... Podcast version: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xX25...

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This was an interesting choice, given the history of #SNL and Sinead O’Connor 😢

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Ooof…seeing Gilda Radner dance with Steve Martin on the #SNL 50th Anniversary really got me.

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What are the chances Steven Seagal shows up on the #SNL 50th Anniversary Special🤣🤣🤣?

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As you can image from the company that makes The Press Guardian comic, good journalism is important to us. So is protecting / supporting it. Which is why we were excited to sponsor the first issue of @explodingarrow.bsky.social’s Comics Courier. Here is my first look!

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When you go on the @longboxpunk.bsky.social podcast you get a lovely, hand-drawn, thank you letter. Thank you for this, Chris!

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Russian national arrested for ties to the FSB. She was active in think tank/NGO/gov space in NYC, DC, and Canada. www.rferl.org/amp/russia-f...

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It’s been more than a week since we had an undersea cable sabotage story from @alexmartin.bsky.social and I was going through withdrawal! via @therecordmedia.bsky.social

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Love this concise and cogent explanation of messaging apps that use end-to-end encryption from Taylor Wilkes-Pierce on the @domaintools.bsky.social podcast.

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I love this new @davejorgenson.bsky.social channel concept and hope all the videos are this good.

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More than 130 CISA employees have been laid off as part of a larger government purge, DHS spokesperson tells me.

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Not that anyone cares but a bunch of senior doj officials resigning over a corrupt instruction to drop a case was what triggered the Nixon impeachment, and in the Trump era it's just the 2pm scandal of a random Thursday and every day now has ~3 such scandals that would have ended any prior admin

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Chainalysis has found over $9.9 billion worth of crypto-assets last year linked to online scam gangs. Almost 85% of the funds are linked to investment and romance scam operations. www.chainalysis.com/blog/2024-pi...

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Taking @chuckwendig.bsky.social’s advice to ask you to check out this thread about the release of the second issue of The Press Guardian. If you like stories about bad-ass Nazi punching, disinformation fighting, press freedom defending redheads you will love this comic. bsky.app/profile/gree...

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So much for CISA employees not being impacted by downsizing 😢.

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Le buone abitudini non si perdono. Con @sonoclaudio.bsky.social abbiamo realizzato un report che ricapitola gli attacchi del mese di Gennaio 2025. Solito particolare focus su Italia e paesi #NIS2, con grafici e dettagli. RedACT /01_25 è disponibile qui: contents.ransomnews.online/RedACT_mensi...

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Ukraine struggles to counter Russian disinfo without US support, local cyber official says Via @therecordmedia.bsky.social

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This is a big one. Our friends in the UK trying to do a "Chat Control Regulation" part II. Maybe of interest to @ransomwaresommelier.com, @claesdevreese.bsky.social, and other eloquent voices for #security and #privacy - check out the GEC's Joint Letter: www.globalencryption.org/2025/02/join...

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🇺🇸 Williamsburg James City County Public Schools (wjccschools.org) victime d'une cyberattaque autour du 09 février 2025. 👉 https://www.ransomware.live/#/recentcyberattacks

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Another great episode of Comic Lab, but the title made me think of the 3rd best Robin Hood movie and now I have to go watch it, thanks @evil-inc.com & @davekellett.bsky.social 🤣 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

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