sometimes the founder of a company says something that simply stops you in your tracks and haunts you. There's one those in here from the creator of Einstein, an edtech AI that will go to school for you

I spoke to a ton of people for this comprehensive story about CISA one year into the Trump administration, and all sorts were VERY unsparing in their criticism. cyberscoop.com/cisa-personn...

Don't meet us in DC - this year, the #CyberCivilDefense Summits will come to you. We're co-hosting 3 regional summits in 2026 with amazing state and local partners. See which Summit is nearest you, and get notified when registration opens! Read the announcement: cltc.berkeley.edu/2026/02/17/t...

💵 Save money, 🛡 defend communities: I testified last week on SB183 for a Maryland Cyber Reserve Team, in an informational capacity to the Maryland Committee on Education, Energy, & the Environment. Read my written testimony here: cltc.berkeley.edu/wp-content/u... #CyberCivilDefense #Take9

Now more than ever, people have seen the real-world risk of invasive face recognition technology. We won’t lose focus.

With the awful WaPo layoffs and the state of journalism more broadly, if it's useful for any writers and reporters considering going indy, @molly.wiki, @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social of Aftermath, @jasonkoebler.bsky.social of 404 Media, @edzitron.com and me will do a little workshop next week.

When even the WeRateDogs guy is compelled to speak out about your product’s dangerous normalization of surveillance that may be subverted by the state, you’ve clearly crossed the line.

I expected the cuts would be bad but I'm honestly stunned and sickened seeing how many great journalists the Washington Post just lost. People who nailed huge investigations, documented war zones, exposed horrific crimes, dropped all at once for failures they did not cause.

This is very cool to see more tech and media companies going nonprofit to focus content on the public good

State civilian cyber corps volunteers in Wisconsin are saving states money AND providing free incident response to cities and towns in need. It is no wonder these programs exist in 8+ states, with more considering creating authorities for them this year. #CyberCivilDefense #Take9

Check out this great coverage of a @districtcon.bsky.social roundtable on the Pall Mall Process by @timstarks.bsky.social

"Craigslist Founder Signs Giving Pledge and Narrows Focus" "Craig Newmark's philanthropic strategy is shaped as much by what didn’t work as by what did — leading to an approach that favors scale, networks, and trusted intermediaries over scattershot giving." www.philanthropy.com/news/craigsl...

Cyber volunteering had a big year in 2025, marked by a surge in community-led civil defense. This highlights how the ecosystem is scaling and maturing—with thousands of volunteers now providing critical support to organizations nationwide #CyberCivilDefense #Take9 cltc.berkeley.edu/2025/12/19/f....

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404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or to their employer.

what people are able to do with Grok at the moment is far far far worse than putting people in bikinis www.404media.co/inside-the-t...

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Your boy has plans, I have plans too.

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-...

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