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Can't wait to celebrate Cybersecurity Awareness Month. I've had my decorations up for weeks!

After a testy exchange during which Senate Homeland Security Committee Chair Rand Paul accused ranking member Gary Peters of "fake outrage" & "hot air," Peters said Paul was the "one person standing in the way" of renewing a program that is "absolutely essential for this nation's national security."

Georgia Tech Research Corporation settles with the Justice Department for $875,000 over allegations that it defrauded the government by failing to meet the cybersecurity requirements of its Air Force and DARPA contracts. www.justice.gov/opa/pr/georg...

If the CISA 2015 info-sharing law expires tomorrow, CISA the agency may eliminate its real-time threat indicator sharing database, according to a new DHS OIG report. www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/defaul... Participation in sharing program has been declining since 2020. Post-expiration plans unclear.

I enjoyed talking to @darkreading.bsky.social's Arielle Waldman about the state of security in the internet of things ecosystem. Check out our video conversation (there's also a transcript if you prefer reading): www.darkreading.com/iot/iot-secu...

I had a great time pitching a Star Wars story idea with @gracesegers.bsky.social and Haley on our new @hothtakes.bsky.social episode. I would definitely greenlight both of their pitches. hothtakes.wordpress.com/2025/09/26/h...

New: CISA is framing the end of its support for the MS-ISAC on Wednesday as part of a transition to a "new model" to "strengthen accountability" and "shared responsibility." The agency is also touting the free support it already offers to state and local governments. www.cisa.gov/news-events/...

CISA's Cybersecurity Awareness Month announcement features a Trump admin talking point about CISA "get[ting] back on mission": www.dhs.gov/news/2025/09... I'm curious how the focus on critical infrastructure run by SMBs & local govts squares w/ disinvestment from those groups (e.g. MS-ISAC cuts).

CISA will furlough 65% of its staff if the government shuts down on Wednesday, keeping about 890 people to handle mission-critical cybersecurity protection work. www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/cisa-go... As in other agencies, employees there are worried about potential RIFs of furloughed staff.

The expiring CISA 2015 information-sharing law makes it to the White House press room ... in a roundup of organizations urging Congress to prevent a shutdown, which the White House is presenting as those organizations pressuring Democrats to cave. www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

"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...

Our latest episode of @hothtakes dropped on Friday. Have you listened to it yet? hothtakes.wordpress.com/2025/09/26/h...

Have you listened to our new @hothtakes.bsky.social episode yet? If so, whose Star Wars story pitch did you like the best? hothtakes.wordpress.com/2025/09/26/h...

Don't miss our new @hothtakes.bsky.social episode, where we pitch three ideas for Star Wars stories we'd like to see, two that Disney could tell right now and one from an alternate universe where things are better. hothtakes.wordpress.com/2025/09/26/h...

What Star Wars story would you tell if you had unlimited creative and financial freedom? In our new episode, the @hothtakes.bsky.social crew presents three ideas from different genres and different eras of the galaxy. Let us know what you think! hothtakes.wordpress.com/2025/09/26/h...

"'I'm emotionally shellshocked right now,' said one professor in the Texas Tech system. 'What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.'" www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

If you disliked what the Star Wars sequels did to the Big Three and the next generation of heroes, @gracesegers.bsky.social has a pitch for a redo that I think is super interesting. Hear that and more in @hothtakes.bsky.social's new episode! hothtakes.wordpress.com/2025/09/26/h...

When I pulled up our show-notes document prior to recording today's new @hothtakes episode, I could not have imagined the TV show idea that Haley would pitch. Listen now to find out what it is: hothtakes.wordpress.com/2025/09/26/h...

"There were no plans for Hegseth to make a major national security-related announcement as part of the meeting...making it even more surprising that he has ordered the officers to attend ... & leave their posts for what will essentially be a major speech." www.cnn.com/2025/09/26/p...

I loved doing a "Hoth Tank" pitch episode of @hothtakes.bsky.social with @gracesegers.bsky.social and Haley. We each brought an idea for a new Star Wars project, and believe me when I say: You'll want to greenlight all of them. hothtakes.wordpress.com/2025/09/26/h...

With Star Wars relatively moribund on screen, the @hothtakes.bsky.social crew is thinking about the kinds of stories we'd like to see. In our new episode, we each pitch a project and respond to our co-hosts' feedback. I think you'll like our ideas. hothtakes.wordpress.com/2025/09/26/h...

Breaking: CISA orders agencies to analyze and patch Cisco networking equipment following the discovery of critical vulnerabilities being exploited by "an advanced threat actor." www.cisa.gov/news-events/... Cisco alert: sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/cen...

"'My main takeaway is that America is not a safe place to work,' Mr. Park said. 'I don’t think I would go there again to work.'" www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/w...

New: China-linked hackers, including the most prolific threat group targeting the U.S., have been using stealthy malware to penetrate tech firms, SaaS providers, and legal-services orgs; steal sensitive data; and find software flaws, according to Google. www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/china-e...

Not exactly thrilled with the role that Star Wars plays in this conversation.

@openssf.org says the open-source software ecosystem is unsustainable and reaching a breaking point as maintainers struggle with funding, time, and demands from commercial users: openssf.org/blog/2025/09... I wrote about this problem recently: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/open-so...

It's not looking for good CISA 2015: @samsabin.bsky.social reports that Senate Homeland Security Committee chair Rand Paul "seems reluctant to engage with the private sector or other committee members" on reauthorization. www.axios.com/2025/09/19/c...

Stop me if you've heard this advice before: CISA says the top three lessons from an incident response it recently conducted at a federal agency are: remediate vulnerabilities, test your response plan, and review your EDR alerts. www.cisa.gov/sites/defaul...

"Initial analysis of the data on some of the SIM cards has identified ties to at least one foreign nation, as well as links to criminals already known to U.S. law enforcement officials, including cartel members..."

History podcast king Mike Duncan on the fall of a republic ("The facade is never going to go away, it’s how tissue-thin the facade is") and the decline of an empire ("Is this thing pushing itself towards some sort of terminal failure? Yeah, sure feels like it."): www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

I still don't understand why this is a movie. It looks so hokey. But Grogu has a Spider-Man web shooter gauntlet now, so that's something! www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pa1...

Love this story about how Wikipedia fends off censorship and disinformation: "Wikipedia’s first and best line of defense is to explain how Wikipedia works." www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

Don't get too excited about AI's ability to find software vulnerabilities, @rgblights.bsky.social said today — we'll never be able to keep up w/ the patching, esp. for unsupported & poorly maintained software. My report from Google's Cyber Defense Summit: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/ai-vuln...

@issueonereform.bsky.social warns that Trump's cuts to cyber agencies like CISA and the FBI have "hollow[ed] out the very institutions designed to protect our infrastructure, elections, and democratic integrity." The group wants Congress to restore programs and funding. issueone.org/articles/ame...

Nice job by @timstarks.bsky.social wrapping up all the (thus-far) failed attempts to renew CISA 2015, which industry groups say their members need in order to confidently share threat information: cyberscoop.com/cyber-threat...

Meta: The FBI uses its IC3 website to warn people that malicious actors are spoofing its IC3 website for scams and identity theft. www.ic3.gov/PSA/2025/PSA...

Curious, considering that Trump's cyber EO scrapped Biden's efforts to accelerate PQC adoption. www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/trump-c...

In defense of the em-dash: "Humans do not think or speak in sentences; we think and speak in thoughts, which interrupt and introduce and complicate one another in a neat little dance ... This is the whole thing punctuation is for." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/m...

"The new strategy also veers away from decades of focus on Africa, where many nations rely on the United States government to help with H.I.V. prevention and treatment." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...

"In interviews, parents said they came to their views through podcasts and videos and articles on the internet, which experts say contained disinformation about vaccine safety." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...

"Wildfire smoke, intensified by rising temperatures, is on track to become one of America’s deadliest climate disasters, causing as many as two million deaths over the next three decades..." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/c...

Scattered Spider crackdown continues: U.K. arrests 2 suspected members for hacking London's transit agency, DOJ charges one of them w/ $115m hacking spree that included a critical infrastructure org & the US court system. www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/two-cha... www.justice.gov/opa/pr/unite...

A coalition of virtually every state and local government association in the country is repeating an urgent warning for Congress to reauthorize and reappropriate the State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program, which sunsets on Sept. 30. www.nga.org/advocacy-com...

"The report notes that multiple lines of evidence now show that human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation are producing greenhouse gases that are heating the planet, & that climate change is exacerbating a wide variety of health risks..." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/c...

"When the Trump administration said last week that it would stop requiring thousands of industrial facilities to report their planet-warming pollution, the move fit a growing pattern: If data points to a problem, stop collecting the data." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/c...

"The president’s campaign to deport immigrants in the U.S. illegally has taken federal agents away from drug-traffic interdiction. In Arizona, two Customs and Border Protection checkpoints along a main fentanyl-smuggling corridor from Mexico have been left unstaffed." www.wsj.com/world/americ...

👀 "Hirono asked [FBI Director Kash] Patel to say who had replaced top officials who had exited the cyber division, but he said only that they were 'supremely qualified individuals' and wouldn’t give their names 'so you can attack them.'" cyberscoop.com/senators-fbi...

"[I]t's hard not to see the ongoing dismantling of the cancer research system as collateral damage in a larger, partisan war ... yet the term 'collateral damage' suggests a lack of agency; this has been a deliberate and targeted attack." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...