BREAKING: Drug cartels are feared to be among those that obtained sensitive court data due to a sweeping breach of the federal judiciary’s case filing system.

The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project reports today that Telegram's technical backbone is managed by a Russian network engineer with significant business ties to the FSB, Russia's counterpart to the FBI.

"At the FAA, a group of staffers went out for post-work drinks to toast the banishment of DOGE staff. Then they offered a more solemn toast to the more than two dozen colleagues they’d lost along the way" www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

I wrote about this 15(!) years ago. Gotta change those default passwords and put your cameras behind that firewall. www.nytimes.com/2012/01/23/t...

I’ve worried about AI-derived zero-days from the moment I met ChatGPT. New AI offensive platforms are changing the game but haven’t surfaced publicly. Now finding a Linux kernel-level zero day is as simple as knowing how to prompt. sean.heelan.io/2025/05/22/h...

Just finished the book "THIS IS HOW THEY TELL ME THE WORLD ENDS" by @nicoleperlroth.bsky.social A great view at the people finding, selling or using 0-day vulnerabilities A few friends appear here and there, and that make the book even better

Meanwhile, amidst the chaos, noise and static, this is happening … podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... Is anyone paying attention? @nicoleperlroth.bsky.social

Don’t miss this bonus episode of To Catch a Thief, recorded live at the NYSE. @nicoleperlroth.bsky.social talks with former #NSA and #CISA directors #RobJoyce and #JenEasterly, plus Rubrik CEO Bipul Sinha, on China’s #cyberattacks and how the U.S. should respond. Brought by Rubrik.

To Catch a Thief host @nicoleperlroth.bsky.social leads a compelling conversation with cybersecurity heavyweights — including former NSA Cyber Director Rob Joyce & former CISA Director Jen Easterly — on China’s escalating cyberattacks, their strategic intent, and how the U.S. can respond.

I would encourage everyone who's giving thought to how we ended up in this particular time and place economic place to take the time to listen to @nicoleperlroth.bsky.social podcast, To Catch a Thief. There's much more to the loss of industrial manufacturing in the West than you probably knew.

This will get lost in news, but Trump just signed EO ordering DOJ to investigate Chris Krebs (oversaw 2020 election security) and Miles Taylor for TREASON. This is an authoritarian knife to the throat of anyone that would choose country over party. www.c-span.org/video/?c5160...

Fascinating story about North Korean tech workers: they never log off, and they generate hundreds of millions in salaries for the regime. By @mattkapko.com of @cyberscoop.bsky.social #infosec cyberscoop.com/north-korea-...

Episode 2 of TO CATCH A THIEF: Tells the backstory to our hack at the NYTimes. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Imagine if Congress (boty parties) and media had been addressing this instead of emails and tan suits and brat summer

A tale in 2 parts. From the book 'This is how they tell me the world ends' by @nicoleperlroth.bsky.social

Listen on Thursday — it also includes Michael Schmidt and @nicoleperlroth.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

It’s OUT! My podcast TO CATCH A THIEF has been two years in the making. It includes interviews with victims, and tracers, of Chinese cyberespionage. The first two episodes dropped today. It’s high time Americans know all that was stolen, all that IS infiltrated. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Chief Justice John Roberts on Wednesday night said that the U.S. Agency for International Development and the State Department did not need to immediately pay for more than $1.5 billion in already completed aid work.

Watching ep1 of NFLX's Zero Day and reading This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends (nonfiction by @nicoleperlroth.bsky.social). I'm convinced the book was the inspiration behind the series. Not sure about the series yet but this book is 10/10.

Breaking News: A federal judge said he would freeze a Trump administration effort to put thousands of USAID workers on leave and withdraw employees abroad.

U.S. employers added 143,000 jobs in January — a modest slowdown from the two previous months. The unemployment rate dipped to 4%.

Nearly three years after a judge first blocked a near-total ban on abortion in Utah, Republican lawmakers are pushing through a proposed change to court rules that could give them another swing at circumventing the judiciary for their trigger law to take effect.

“Reinforce prosocial behaviors, such as shrinking his carbon footprint, and ignore his attempts to make fascist hand gestures in his stroller.” From New Yorker Humor, a guide to your Elon Musk’s development.

Alright, I’m here now. I’ve been hoping that by posting on X those who most needed the reality check would see it. But it’s a bloodbath over there. Hello blue skies…

China, the U.S.'s third-largest trade partner, has restricted exports of the strategic metals tungsten, bismuth, indium, molybdenum and tellurium.

Truly, a must read. We have seen this playbook before. “The Twitter Files were just the dress rehearsal. The real performance is about to begin, and this time, it threatens to undermine crucial government functions from international aid to public health infrastructure.”

Biometric voice identification experts did an analysis comparing Elon Musk’s voice to Adrian Dittman’s. They found that, while not impossible, it’s highly unlikely (0.5%) they aren’t the same person. This is Exhibit A for my kids when I tell them money doesn’t buy happiness.

“Adrian Dittman” is Elon Musk, let this tweet sink in.

*Someone* seems keen to delete Wikipedia's article on Appin, the cyber mercenary firm we wrote about last year. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

I would love to see a bunch of musical artists and celebrities put on a nationally televised tribute concert for Pres. Jimmy Carter on inauguration day with all proceeds going to Habitat for Humanity.

My thoughts exactly…

A tribute to Jimmy Carter: From 3.5 million Guinea Worm cases to just 7 caitlinrivers.substack.com/p/tribute-to...

The least self-aware person on the planet.

so shel silverstein anticipated ai?

It hurts.

Japan Airlines halts ticket sales after a cyberattack hit its network equipment, causing delays to more than 40 flights and says flight safety was not impacted (New York Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

State of Emergency in California over bird flu. Happy Christmas.

CDC confirms first known severe case of H5N1 bird flu in the U.S. www.statnews.com/2024/12/18/h...

Powerful story from @cbc-news.bsky.social where host Adrienne Arsenault interviews dissidents from Iran and China, along with experts @rondeibert.bsky.social and @noura.bsky.social about the growing issue of foreign governments’ intimidation of exiled dissidents in 🇨🇦. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

True story. Please use Signal, WhatsApp for sensitive calls and messages until further instruction.

It is absolutely wild that LLM vendors have tried to file DMCA claims against researchers testing LLMs that the vendors themselves trained on unlicensed copyrighted material. Glad to see that they're losing DMCA as a weapon. www.centerforcybersecuritypolicy.org/insights-and...

Krugman's best pieces: • The babysitting co-op slate.com/business/199... • On modeling web.mit.edu/krugman/www/... • Japan liquidity trap web.mit.edu/krugman/www/... • on zoning www.nytimes.com/2015/11/30/o... archive.nytimes.com/krugman.blog... • how I work web.mit.edu/krugman/www/...

Krugman unbound.

Financed by the Saudis.

🚨 If you’re not using Signal, you are not taking the Salt Typhoon (PRC) cyberattacks seriously enough. But if you’re a nat sec reporter, soon to be former USG official, on a revenge list, you would be an idiot not to get a Cape.co phone right now. 🚨 I use one. It’s the *only* secure mobile co rn.

Wow. UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson shot at 6:45AM this morning in midtown Manhattan. He’s been dealing with one of the worst ransomware attacks on record. Looks very targeted. www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12...

I went to a computer security conference recently and got the chance to try to force some basic GPT chatbots to give me access to private information. And it was *literally* like taking candy from a baby. They should not be anywhere near anyone’s sensitive information.