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Former FTC chair Lina Khan was just named to NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's transition team—just one sign that his new administration will take tech matters seriously, writes Rebecca Williams. She offers a tech agenda for the new mayor to advance his campaign goals:

The future of cybersecurity is local. Learn more about how state-led Cyber Volunteers are stepping up to defend communities from cyber attacks, and how CLTC is growing these programs #CyberCivilDefense #Take9 www.govtech.com/security/cyb...

please please please send me your best undergraduate for next season's Privacy & Data Governance internship: www.aclu.org/careers/inte...

On Lawfare Daily, Justin Sherman sat down with @powa-sec.bsky.social and Michael Razeeq to discuss the cyber threats facing states, resources states have to address cybersecurity problems, and how state cyber corps and volunteer programs fits into the picture. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/lawf...

The future of cybersecurity is local! Thanks to Justin for having me and Michael Razeeq on the @lawfaremedia.org podcast to talk about cyber volunteering and state cyber corps programs. #CyberCivilDefense #Take9

On Global Encryption Day, our #OptOutOctober tip is to check out Signal: an encrypted messaging app that actually keeps your conversations private. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Happy Amazon Prime Day! Amazon collects mountains of data about how you use the service, but there is a setting you can change to make it harder for the company to use that data to sell you more things. #OptOutOctober www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Excellent compilation and analysis from @cybersecuritydive.bsky.social @ericjgeller.com that awareness training is not effective. Let's continue shifting the blame away from organizations and towards the products they use, and local leaders who can help. #CommunityCybersecurity #CyberCivilDefense

Amazon's Ring is adding facial recognition to its home doorbells and security cameras for the first time. To identify people you know, it needs to run everyone's face in sight through facial recognition. wapo.st/4mR2v5l

The Consortium of Cybersecurity Clinics is experiencing unprecedented growth! Read more about their impact and accomplishments and just how significant a leap forward this past year has been for #CyberCivilDefense. cybersecurityclinics.org/blog/growth-... #Take9 #CybersecurityAwarenessMonth

Here's a CR article on our findings. www.consumerreports.org/money/scams-...

The Consortium of Cybersecurity Clinics is experiencing unprecedented growth! Read more about their impact and accomplishments and just how significant a leap forward this past year has been for #CyberCivilDefense #Take9 #CybersecurityAwarenessMonth cybersecurityclinics.org/blog/growth-...

🍎 📚 💻 What does K12 cybersecurity have to do with bug bounty? Nearly every school in the country uses one of a handful of technologies. By making these products more secure, we can better protect schools, students, and teachers at scale.

"We’re a little bit more on our own": State and local cybersecurity officials band together as the Trump administration turns its back on them. Nice story by @maggiemiller.bsky.social: subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...

Incredible and timely research about vulnerabilities in Tile tracking tags from @mikespecter.com and his team at Georgia Tech

Today, my research group @ Georgia Tech released a paper on vulnerabilities in Tile --- the second largest device finding network after Apple's AirTags. You can read about it in Wired, reporting by @kimzetter.bsky.social! www.wired.com/story/tile-t...

The #CyberResilienceCorps in action! Give a listen to the latest NPR Piece on @projectfranklin.bsky.social #CyberCivilDefense #Take9

The cyber community is facing a world that's changing fast, from shifting government priorities to the rapid rise of AI. Explore the speaker list for @aspendigital.bsky.social 2025 #AspenCyber Summit on Nov 18 where leaders gather to create a safer world www.aspencybersummit.org #take9

Very cool #MITRE project mapping inter-dependencies of critical infrastructure: www.esri.com/about/newsro...

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The UNLV Cyber Clinic is doing great things! #CyberCivilDefense @cyberclinics.bsky.social www.fox5vegas.com/2025/07/09/u...

Exclusive: Children hacking their own schools for 'fun', watchdog warns. "What starts out as a dare can lead to children taking part in damaging attacks on organisations." Comes amid a spate of high profile cyber-attacks in which teenage hackers are implicated www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Lofty claims to “innovation” should not put people at risk and AI firms should not be given a get-out-of-jail free card. We wrote for @techpolicypress.bsky.social how weak regulation is just as bad as none at all, and today we can see the fruits of this develop: www.techpolicy.press/the-storm-cl...

5/ Shockingly, people can apply to the sandbox before they even have an incorporated business. This means that a firm with no clear understanding of its product risks can effectively claim that the benefits of their hypothetical product outweigh the risks and receive immunity.

🚨 New Issue Brief 🚨 Building on last year’s report and dataset on proliferation across the global spyware market, Mythical Beasts: Diving into the Depths of the Global Spyware Market explores how the spyware market is growing and evolving: www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-res...

The paper is 'Against the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia' and it's worth reading in full. It’s a great resource for educators, administrators and anyone concerned about AI in the classroom. And a great resource for those educators already eager to stand up to AI-happy admins.

Pushing the responsibility of harms to the end users didn't work for cybersecurity, and it won't work for AI

Also, we have data now showing that being in a data breach really does increase your chance of being a victim of identity theft, even if you never slip up and leak or accidentally authorize something you shouldn't.

Flock seeks to add data from private car dashcams to its massive surveillance network. At minimum it seems like data from random cars driving around is going to be added to their system www.404media.co/flock-wants-...

Mark your calendars for #DistrictCon drop dates!

A cyberattack took down systems, websites and phone lines used by the state government of Nevada after an incident on Sunday morning The attack took place one day after hackers targeted state systems in Maryland therecord.media/nevada-state...

The states are leading expansion of #CyberVolunteering. How can we help them double down on this cyber safety net? @cltcberkeley.bsky.social's Grace Menna and @powa-sec.bsky.social share their expertise on what's needed most. Read their insights: www.aspendigital.org/blog/states-... #AspenCyber‪

the tldr of our second year anniversary post is that things are going well. the business model of "try our absolute best to do good journalism and ask people to pay for it" is working. people are willing to support this type of work and it has allowed us to become more ambitious about what we do

🛑 Stop talking about states like they are helpless with cybersecurity. State govts are already taking the lead w/ innovative cyber volunteering programs. Read more in our piece for @aspendigital.bsky.social @cltcberkeley.bsky.social #Take9 #CyberCivilDefense www.aspendigital.org/blog/states-...

🚨Journalism job alert🚨 We're hiring an investigative reporter to join my team at @wired.com. We're looking for someone who has both traditional and non-traditional reporting skills (coding/data work/OSINT, etc). Fit the bill? Come work with me! condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CondeCareers...

I talked to 404 Media about devices for tracking and spying on your partner being sold on TikTok. This is not stalkerware, but these are devices for tech-enabled abuse and I think we should be talking about tech-enabled abuse more broadly. www.404media.co/tiktok-shop-...

TikTok did the absolute bare minimum when @rosiejt62.bsky.social reached out to them - they deleted the several videos we sent them but of course left the product up as well as dozens of other videos also marketing it for abuse. Not clear they have much of any system in place to stop this at scale

Nice story from @colinwood.me about how states are trying to fill the void left by CISA's multifaceted reduction in cybersecurity support. (With a link to a scoop from yours truly. 😃) statescoop.com/cisa-state-l...

The Cyber Resilience Corps has been presenting at BSidesLV and DEF CON and publishing research. New work from @cltcberkeley.bsky.social Nonresident Fellow Michael Razeeq on the role of low-cost MSPs and MSSPs in community cyber defense: #CyberCivilDefense #Take9 cltc.berkeley.edu/publication/...

What an amazing experience to present at #DEFCON33 Main Stage on Cyber Volunteering. Thank you to my co-speakers Adrien Ogee, Jake Braun, and Jonathan Farley. #CyberCivilDefense #Take9

CLTC's @powa-sec.bsky.social was the latest guest on CyberWire, where she discussed the Cyber Resilience Corps' proposed nationwide roadmap to scale cyber defense for community organizations. 🎧​ Listen to the episode: thecyberwire.com/podcasts/dai... #CyberCivilDefense #Take9

Can't wait!

The office of Pennsylvania's attorney general is warning state residents that its email and phone lines are down as a result of a cyberattack Experts traced the breach back to the CitrixBleed 2 bug therecord.media/pennsylvania...

Requiring the end-user to have technical expertise doesn't work for cybersecurity, and it won't work for AI.

MN Gov Tim Walz has activated the state's national guard in response to a cyberattack on St. Paul mn.gov/governor/new...

New from 404 Media: a second data breach at Tea has exposed more than a million direct messages between users that we obtained. Discussions of abortions, cheating. The other data was older. This is as recent as *last week*. Hard to overstate how sensitive this data is www.404media.co/a-second-tea...

Today US senator Margaret Wood Hassan has written to Elon Musk—citing WIRED's investigation below—demanding answers about why Starlink is still being used in huge scam compounds in Southeast Asia Letter from Hassan here: www.hassan.senate.gov/imo/media/do...