The countdown to the weekend begins with Five for Friday! 🪩💃🕺 Read #InfoSec & #DataPrivacy items from March 2-6, 2026 like: 🔓🧐 Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester 🦄👻Even Unicorns Get Ghosted Five for Friday: March 6, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/sherpain...

The countdown to the weekend begins with Five for Friday! 🪩💃🕺 Read #InfoSec & #DataPrivacy items from March 2-6, 2026 like: 🔓🧐 Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester 🦄👻Even Unicorns Get Ghosted Five for Friday: March 6, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/sherpain...

Articles like this continually reinforce for me that we need way WAY more women in tech.

AILA President Jeff Joseph & Executive Director Ben Johnson welcome the Real Courts, Rule of Law Act of 2026 which would "lay a new foundation for the courts as an independent institution that will no longer be controlled by the Executive Branch.” https://bit.ly/4b56szf

A Special episode of the Gate 15 Interview is out now! In this episode, Andy Jabbour speaks with experts from the Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC) community! Our podcast is available right now, go check it out! #cybersecurity @andyjabbour.bsky.social gate15.global/the-gate-15-...

What's going on at the National Cryptologic Museum 🧐

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Alex got Marie Kondo’d on #LoveIsBlind 😅

THREAD: We just released a tool that allows you to search billions of dollars in wealth, ties to the most powerful companies in the country, and details of the personal finances of President Trump and over 1,500 of his appointees. Here’s how it works 1/

"If Florida enacts House Bill 945, it will create a national first – CIA-style structure at the state level that blurs the traditional line between state law enforcement and intelligence work." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Kill it with fire. Never ever ever.

Misquoting Orwell is the perfect end to her tenure

Former LA Times managing editor @sarayasin.bsky.social launches The Key, a new publication about Palestine that will be "a home for journalists who have had their stories spiked in mainstream outlets." Her opening essay is worth every second of your time: www.thekeymagazine.com/p/western-jo...

Iranian authorities have threatened to arrest citizens who connect to the internet in defiance to a communications blackout imposed by the state. Iranian police sent SMS warnings to all citizens earlier this week. www.france24.com/en/live-news...

"If Florida enacts House Bill 945, it will create a national first – CIA-style structure at the state level that blurs the traditional line between state law enforcement and intelligence work." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

[WARNING: This is a bit graphic.] A Marine Corps veteran protesting Trump’s War on Iran had his arm broken by Capitol Police and GOP Senator Tim Sheehy. It appears to be a compound fracture.

If the feds, with their institutional expertise and legal constraints, cannot consistently avoid abusing surveillance powers, why should we assume newly created state intelligence offices will do better? Read more from FPF's @seth-stern.bsky.social and @laurenleharper.bsky.social:

Great crowd at Zero Trust World today. Thanks for everyone who came to my keynote and for all the great hallway conversations! 😃

ICYMI: Google feels the need for security speed, so will ship Chrome updates every two weeks

Finally, some delightful breaking news.

massholes:

Notepad++ Supply Chain Attack & Chrysalis Backdoor by Umut Bayram from Picus Security (March 02, 2026) cybersec.picussecurity.com/s/notepad-su...

I have mixed feelings about Ancestry dot com, but this could be an interesting #OSINT & #genealogy development. www.audacy.com/kywnewsradio...

I have mixed feelings about Ancestry dot com, but this could be an interesting #OSINT & #genealogy development. www.audacy.com/kywnewsradio...

The first confirmed fatalities in Trump's illegal War on Iran: Captain Cody A. Khork, 35, of Winter Haven, FA Sergeant First Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42, of Bellevue, NE Sergeant First Class Nicole M. Amor, 39, of White Bear Lake, MN Sergeant Declan J. Coady, 20, of West Des Moines, IA

ICS[AP] updated CISA ICS Advisories Master File for 3/3/26 & the following year's CSVs: CISA_ICS_ADV_2026_3_3.csv CISA_ICS_ADV_2025_3_3_26.csv Available @ ICS[AP] GitHub: github.com/icsadvprj/IC... #opensource #vulnerabilitymanagement #icssecurity

We are officially doing too much. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u...

Texas is close to not being a functioning democracy It’s the hardest place to vote because Republicans have put impediments in place based on totally bogus vote fraud concerns - that they just make up The courts have become complicit in this effort What we’re seeing in Texas now is a disgrace

Picus does some absolutely wonderful stuff

UKMTO WARNING INCIDENT 010-026

French president Emmanuel Macron announces that France will increase its nuclear arsenal in a speech in front of a nuclear submarine, 2 March 2026.

Journalists have been asking us again and again about how to spot deepfakes. Here’s our best advice for now, though it may evolve quickly, as AI advancements are happening in weeks and months rather than years. deepfakestracker.org/deepfake-spo...

Notepad++ Supply Chain Attack & Chrysalis Backdoor by Umut Bayram from Picus Security (March 02, 2026) cybersec.picussecurity.com/s/notepad-su...

The US has fewer counterintelligence officers who have experience with Iran because a few years ago those US officers did their jobs properly and assisted with a judge-signed search warrant regarding a criminal theft of US defense secrets, which the search found a lot of evidence of. Seriously.

USENIX Enigma has published its CFP for 2026: www.usenix.org/conference/u... Submissions are due March 31, 2026. Looking forward to seeing many of you this year.

She's like an old samurai whose great battles are behind her but every once in a while she kills a man with piece of paper just to prove a point

Sherpa Intelligence paid attention to the #InfoSec & #DataPrivacy news from over the weekend so you wouldn't have to! Read 🧐 "I Almost Got Hacked on a Microsoft Teams Call — Here’s How the Scam Works" Weekend News Roundup: February 27-March 1, 2026 sherpaintelligence.substack.com/p/informatio...

Why the Strait of Hormuz is crucial to global oil and maritime trade

Quintin is one of the people behind Rayhunter, an easy to install tool that can detect nearby IMSI-catchers. This tech, sometimes known as Stingrays, poses as a fake cellphone tower to track a phone’s location, intercept calls and texts, and can sometimes even deliver malware. Watch now:

NEW: A group of hacktivists calling themselves "Department of Peace" claims to have hacked an office wihin the Department of Homeland Security. The hacktivists leaked data on more than 6,000 contracts between DHS/ICE and private companies to the transparency website Distributed Denial of Secrets.

The number of US service members seriously wounded in the Iran War now stands at 18, up from the five reported yesterday.

Sherpa Intelligence paid attention to the #InfoSec & #DataPrivacy news from over the weekend so you wouldn't have to! Read 🧐 "I Almost Got Hacked on a Microsoft Teams Call — Here’s How the Scam Works" Weekend News Roundup: February 27-March 1, 2026 sherpaintelligence.substack.com/p/informatio...

Hey, cool. @lastweektonight.com just did a segment using reporting I did w/ @farooqumar.bsky.social Oliver was talking about body cams--and how law enforcement agencies have often undermined their potential The same body-cams Dems are centering that ICE reforms on www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP4_...

Sherpa Intelligence paid attention to the #InfoSec & #DataPrivacy news from over the weekend so you wouldn't have to! Information Security & Data Privacy Weekend News Roundup: February 27-March 1, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/sherpain...

Fake image of burning Burj Khalifa circulates online

Sherpa Intelligence paid attention to the #InfoSec & #DataPrivacy news from over the weekend so you wouldn't have to! Information Security & Data Privacy Weekend News Roundup: February 27-March 1, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/sherpain...

Trump was raised in a family that disparaged military service. He thinks people “dumb” enough to serve have what’s coming to them. Remember what he told the widow of the soldier who was killed in Niger: “he knew what he signed up for” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017....

"In declassified document, CIA acknowledges role in ‘53 Iran coup" www.cnn.com/2013/08/19/p...