VC Bros Claimed They Backed Trump To Protect AI. Trump Is Shutting Down AI. It Was Always About Access & Power Back in July of 2024, when two of the… https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/29/vc-bros-claimed-they-backed-trump-to-protect-ai-trump-is-shutting-down-ai-it-was-always-about-access-power/

More Salesforce data thefts, but this time it's a different third-party app integration and a different threat group: www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks...

New: Since the Trump administration eliminated funding for the MS-ISAC, the state and local cyber defense group has lost roughly 70% of its membership, forcing it it to cut staff and raising questions about the future of its vital services. My story: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/ms-isac...

So...where are all the "techno-optimists" and staunch opponents of oppressive government regulation who have been arguing for years that deceleration of AI progress was akin to murder? www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/u...

Supply chain attacks are never a good thing, but they're especially bad when attackers use the same compromised account that was abused in a similar attack just a few weeks earlier. www.darkreading.com/application-...

Seeing a lot of reports that TeamPCP is behind the "Megalodon" supply chain attack against GitHub. Not sure where this is coming from, but both SafeDep (which discovered the attack) and OX Security (which verified the findings) say there's no link at this point: www.darkreading.com/application-...

Oh my fucking god I thought they made this up. They did not. I just tried it myself

It turns out that Google API keys are only *mostly dead* when you delete them. And mostly dead is slightly alive.

You have to wonder if the steep budget cuts and on again/off again layoffs at CISA contributed to this blunder.

EFF is finally leaving X and here is a blog post about why: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Hours after Microsoft reveals that Russian hackers have been breaking into poorly secured routers & hijacking DNS requests (sometimes to collect Outlook data) www.microsoft.com/en-us/securi... DOJ says it has kicked those Russians out of the US routers they hacked: www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...

See, this is MEANT to be tongue in cheek, with the treating it seriously being ironic. But the New York Times can’t pull it off because of what they’ve become. The mock-seriousness is too close to how they routinely are. /1 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/u...

The plot has thickened considerably. www.darkreading.com/threat-intel...

The Trump administration skipped last week's major RSAC cybersecurity conference. On the ground in San Francisco and beyond, people were baffled and frustrated. "Engagement with industry is vital," one former official said. My story: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/rsac-co...

The AI economy looks...really precarious. So @matteowong.bsky.social & I did a bunch of reporting to try to figure out what happens when a potential bubble collides with a war in Iran and a potential resource shortage. The answer is...arguably the most dire stuff i've heard from smart ppl in a while

The cybersecurity world relies on the CVE Program to vet and label vulnerabilities. But amid U.S. funding concerns, AI-fueled bug reporting and global fragmentation, the program is teetering on the brink, according to a warning from #RSAC today. My story: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/cve-pro...

Microsoft today published a report on a two-year cybersecurity pilot program for the water sector, finding that utilities need hands-on help, not just free guidance materials, to be successful: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/water-c...

The biggest crime of the last decade, in Marc's mind, was that people made fun of him when he said stupid, offensive things (which he's done a few times). His entire support of Trumpism was in the belief it would free him up to continue to say offensive shit. Everything else is secondary

The Predatorgate convinctions in Greece represented a landmark event in the fight against commercial spyware. But other recent developments in the U.S. have spyware oppenents deeply concerned. www.darkreading.com/threat-intel...

Anthropic lawsuit against Department of Defense here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... An excellent analysis at @justsecurity.org on Friday by Harold Koh, Bruce Swartz et al here: www.justsecurity.org/133247/anthr...

In 2013 Aaron Swartz committed suicide for facing 35 years in prison for mass downloading scientific articles. 13 years later, Meta is almost getting away with an infraction orders of magnitude larger. The law didn't change. torrentfreak.com/uploading-pi...

Good news: LE agencies and private sector partners took down Tycoon 2FA, a popular phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform that can bypass MFA protections. Bad news: The takedown didn't solve the MFA issue, and other PhaaS platforms use the same bypass technique. www.darkreading.com/threat-intel...

So, obviously this isn’t true. But if the CEO actually believes this nonsense, it implies he thinks maybe he’s enslaving a sentient being that has the capacity to feel emotional distress. And he hasn’t immediately halted operations to suss out how to resolve that?

After the CrowdStrike outage, Microsoft started working w/ 3rd-party security vendors to redesign Windows so their programs could run outside the kernel. I talked to experts and one of those vendors about how this work is going — and why it's so difficult. www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/microso...

New w @janetimm.bsky.social: In the feds' first call with states since gutting CISA's election programs, they promised no ICE at polling places, but weirdly refused to reaffirm states run elections, per people on the call.

New: CISA orders agencies to quickly patch serious Cisco SD-WAN device vulnerabilities, including two that the agency says are being exploited in ways that imminently threaten government networks: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/cisa-em...

From the people who brought you "The analytics model says go for it on 4th and 8, reason be damned!"

If I may potentially make this worse - I think the risk here isn’t that AI is going to nuke us, it’s that there’s a kind of guy who is going to see this and think that we should be more willing to use nukes because the computer thinks it’s a good idea

It takes a village to raise a model.

OpenClaw was already spreading pretty rapidly, but someone decided to take it to the next level via a supply chain attack. www.darkreading.com/application-...

Scoop: A top CISA official told employees today that the agency's cyber division will eliminate some programs to redirect limited resources to high priorities like OT security. Early glimpse of potentially major reorganization at weakened CISA. www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/cisa-cy...

NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note: Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”

What in the tone deaf, ivory tower hell is this?

"In his keynote, Benioff thanked international employees for traveling to the United States for the meeting, and asked them to stand. Benioff then said that ICE agents were in the building to keep tabs on them." www.404media.co/marc-benioff...

If your SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD) instances are exposed to the Internet, you are asking for trouble. www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilit...

Mind-boggling decision by the Post here. Joe will be an incredible asset to whatever newsroom is smart enough to scoop him up next.

If a university student group had celebrated Charlie Kirk being killed, complete with a graphic made from an actual picture of the killing, the whole lot of them would have been expelled before the ink on the digital story was dry.

2026 is off to a rough start for Fortinet.

It boggles the mind, but according to a Forescout report last year, SSH (which is encrypted) usage declined across all industries while Telnet (most definitely NOT ENCRYPTED!) *increased in every industry*, most notably in the government sector (!!!).

Looking forward to Noem's RSAC keynote in March...

Five years ago.

Trump Pretends To Block State AI Laws; Media Pretends That’s Legal The mainstream media just failed a basic civics test so badly that you'd think their brains have been pickled by the kinds of folks who spend all their time on X (oh, wait…). Headlines across major outlets are breathlessly…

I honestly don't know what the fuck we're doing here. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Exactly why the Ellisons are completely unfit to own Warner and CNN — even with all their wealth, what a bunch of acquiescent stooges. They are uninterested in making journalism better or a better business, but happy to make it better for Trump.

Couldn’t Sam Altman just ask ChatGPT how to make itself profitable

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

One of the changes that OpenAI has made to make ChatGPT safer is a "take a break" nudge. There's something quite interesting about the design here. Which thing does it make you want to click?

For the last few months, we've been talking to current and former employees of OpenAI to understand what went wrong with ChatGPT this year and how the company is fixing it. Here's the story: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/t...

Big news on the corporate accountability (or lack thereof) front: The SEC just dropped its case against SolarWinds and its former CISO for allegedly defrauding investors about the company's cybersecurity posture prior to its major hack. www.sec.gov/enforcement-...

My story on today's vote: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/fcc-eli...