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Memo to the infosec community: Trump is now your HR manager.

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

New: Apple says it fixed two zero-day security bugs that may've been used in an "extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals on iOS.” Google's Threat Analysis Group, which investigates government-backed attacks, was credited with discovering one of the bugs.

submitted 15 hours ago • 2 comments

"'I’d hire bodyguards and come,' I told my husband. 'I’d cancel and stay home,' he replied. This is the America we live in now. In Donald Trump’s America." New from @jilldlawrence.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/america-sh...

submitted 20 hours ago • 16 comments

If this is true, that is straight-up wild. If this had happened during Obama or Bush's terms, it would've been a weeks-long newscycle.

submitted 21 hours ago • 5 comments

News: CISA appears to have extended funding for the CVE program at the last minute. Story TK

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

time to have a lot of children to ensure the stability and success of my empire, I am a very smart student of history.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

This story by @danamattioli.bsky.social is something else. www.wsj.com/politics/elo...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Only now catching up with this story. Any sense on whether the named operators are who the Chinese claim they are?

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

This is a fascinating insight from @reuters.com about North Korea’s very significant materiel support to Russia’s war against #Ukraine - as well as insights into targetable vulnerabilities in the Russian strategic logistic system. www.reuters.com/graphics/UKR...

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Meanwhile: 4chan may have been hacked, but its staff is still trolling strong. I asked one of them for comment and they directed me to two different male bondage-themed videos. www.reuters.com/technology/c...

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

New: CISA confirms funding is running out for MITRE’s CVE database. The agency says it’s “urgently working to mitigate impact.” Story here with @ajvicens.bsky.social: www.reuters.com/technology/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

New: There've been more developments following my and @chrisbing.bsky.social's June 2022 investigation into mercenary hacking. Two new legal actions just in the past month. First, a US lawyer is asking a judge to set aside a verdict he says was tainted by hacking: www.reuters.com/legal/us-law...

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EXCLUSIVE: A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.

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A European Commission spokesperson just denied this report in an email to me: "We deny having given guidance to our staff recommending the use of burner phones while on official missions in the US." (Screenshot of full email below)

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Easily my most jarring reaction from a Silicon Valley VC to my questions about @sentinelone.com was that he didn't have any insights to share as he was trying "not to follow all the u.s. news noise these days."

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Harvard redid its whole homepage to push back against the administration’s demands. I mean, this is just a website but I think it’s kind of a great PR move: www.harvard.edu

submitted 2 days ago • 122 comments

France's former top cyber defender Guillaume Poupard has reacted to the news about Trump singling out Chris Krebs, calling it "stupefying" and a "triple ignominy." Not seeing that same level of fire from America's top cyber officials and execs. www.linkedin.com/posts/guilla...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

💥 Whopper scoop from @andybounds.bsky.social: Brussels is issuing burner phones & basic laptops to commissioners & senior officials travelling to the US for IMF/World Bank spring meetings next week to avoid risk of espionage — a measure traditionally reserved for China. www.ft.com/content/20d0...

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments

It hasn't filtered through to the everyday consumer yet, but those at the business end of the US economy are already getting clobbered with massive price increases. www.reuters.com/markets/us/t...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I was thinking about this Joe and Tracy anecdote from the supply chain crisis on gummy bears. Things are probably going to get really weird in a few weeks in unexpected ways:

submitted 4 days ago • 118 comments

EFF on the U.S. cybersecurity industry’s striking silence as one of its leading figures is attacked by the White House. ↘️

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

THREAD: When @thekrebscycle.bsky.social and his workplace, @sentinelone.com, were singled out by Donald Trump on Wednesday, I thought it was an opportunity to weigh the cybersecurity industry's rhetoric against their real world actions.

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

New: @ajvicens.bsky.social and I asked 33 leading information security companies for their reaction to Trump's order stripping @sentinelone.com employees and executives of their security clearances. Not one had anything to say about it. www.reuters.com/world/us/cyb...

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

The answer, my friends, is no. www.reuters.com/world/us/cyb...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Ideas

submitted 6 days ago • 569 comments

Big story from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social — the White House has been suppressing and censoring pool reports. www.status.news/p/white-hous...

submitted 7 days ago • 19 comments

If you work for a US cybersecurity provider (and I know a fair few of you follow me here) and Trump’s move against SentinelOne is coming up at work, I’m reachable via Signal at raphaelsatter.01 Other ways to reach me here: raphae.li

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

The Trump administration is now going after its first cybersecurity company, stripping @sentinelone.com of "any active security clearance." Will the infosec industry do any better than the legal industry in showing solidarity? www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

submitted 7 days ago • 12 comments

NEW: Spyware maker NSO Group has hired a new lobbying firm with direct ties to the Trump administration. That, along with other connections, suggests a potential new strategy for business in the US. @vaspanagiotopoulos.com has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/nso-gr...

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments