Was just brought to a screeching halt in the CyberScoop news room once @derekbjohnson.bsky.social informed me that the White House was using DoorDash as an economic indicator

I know everyone is rightfully worked up over this govt funding bill but @timstarks.bsky.social and I found the cyber angle: if passed, CISA 2015 would go back into law until Jan 30 2026 cyberscoop.com/cisa-2015-sh...

NEW: @timstarks.bsky.social and I confirmed WaPo story that CBO was hacked by a suspected foreign actor - cyberscoop.com/congressiona...

my response to this is the loudest OK BRO you've ever heard in your life

oh inject this directly into my veins

Tried to buy one at the height of the market and I’ll never forget the Ford dealership I called laughing at me and hanging up when I asked what was in stock. Really wanted these to succeed www.wsj.com/business/aut...

NEW: After all of that, a federal judge has reimposed a sentence on Paige Thompson, the former Amazon Web Services engineer convicted in the 2019 Capital One data breach that compromised the personal information of more than 100 million people. cyberscoop.com/court-reimpo...

Can you send it to Nate Cohn in the company Slack?

Another update: Participants tell @timstarks.bsky.social: “Post-shutdown deferments will do little to help our situation — our biggest blocker is the crusade against federal hiring and public sector cybersecurity overall...please, let’s keep the conversation going.” cyberscoop.com/opm-nsf-cybe...

UPDATE: OPM tells @timstarks.bsky.social that once the shutdown is over, it plans to grant CyberCorps participants more time to find jobs without fear the gov't will collect on the student loans cyberscoop.com/opm-nsf-cybe...

NEW: Federal prosecutors allege that 3 cybersecurity professionals, whose job was to help companies respond to ransomware attacks, instead used ALPHV/BlackCat to carry out their own attacks against five U.S. businesses in 2023. cyberscoop.com/incident-res...

NEW: @timstarks.bsky.social spoke with some CyberCorps participants who have had federal agency job and internship offers rescinded this year due to cutbacks. Those who can’t find employment there will see their grants, often reaching six-figure sums, converted into loans after 18 months.

Shot in the dark here: Any lawyer out there that can help me decipher a federal sentencing document ASAP? DM me

One of the nicest and well-liked dudes ive ever come across in my professional career. RIP

An ex-L3 Harris executive pleaded guilty to two counts of theft of trade secrets Wednesday, admitting to selling eight zero-day exploits to a Russian broker in exchange for millions of dollars.  cyberscoop.com/peter-willia...

BREAKING: ex-L3Harris exec Peter Williams pleads guilty to two counts of theft of trade secrets, sold eight exploits to Russian zero-day purchasing company. Sentencing in January 2026. Story to come.

Guess we are asking too much of DHS to have contractors refer to its subagencies by their correct title

Does Issac Chotiner, like, spoof his phone calls or lie to people he interviews? How does he keep getting away with it?

NEW: Researchers show how websites can secretly show crawlers in OpenAI's new browser negative or misleading content, triggering everything from misinfo to fake job promotions—without any visible changes for real users. @derekbjohnson.bsky.social with the scoop: cyberscoop.com/openai-atlas...

Wild, wild, wild cyberscoop.com/ex-l3harris-...

Wait if i'm reading this complaint right, the russians (allegedly) gave this dude multiple FAKE watches????? Selling zero-days for dupes??????

Last week, CISA said it needed to order an emergency directive to find out how widespread F5 was across gov agencies. I asked "wait, shouldn't CDM be able to answer that question?" @timstarks.bsky.social dug further and answered the question cyberscoop.com/f5-vulnerabi...

Following a funding scare that nearly shuttered the CVE program, outside experts and CISA are positioning to take charge of the 25-year-old system before the next funding crisis hits. The mighty @metacurity.com goes behind the struggle for control of the CVE program cyberscoop.com/cve-program-...

NEW from @mattkapko.com: CISA warns of imminent risk posed by thousands of F5 products in federal agencies cyberscoop.com/cisa-emergen...

This is probably bad: "In September, the Department of Justice permitted F5 to withhold public disclosure of the breach, which the government allows if a breach is determined to be a substantial risk to national security or public safety. " cyberscoop.com/f5-breach-na...

Thank you WSJ for writing about the plight of parents everywhere www.wsj.com/lifestyle/si...

LevelBlue, formerly the cybersecurity wing of AT&T, announces it acquired Cybereason. Financials not known at the moment - www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

For more than a year, hackers from a Chinese state-backed espionage group maintained backdoor access to a popular software mapping tool by turning one of its own features into a webshell, according to new research from ReliaQuest. cyberscoop.com/flax-typhoon...

Voting rights groups are asking a court to block an ongoing Trump administration effort to merge disparate federal and state voter data into a massive citizenship and voter fraud database. cyberscoop.com/voting-right...

🤭🫣💀 www.flawtinet.com

The teenagers are making fun of CrowdStrike in their super secret telegram clubhouse

Okta thwarted the supply-chain attack with security controls it had in place. Zscaler did not. Their experiences provide insights into the root of a much broader problem. via @mattkapko.com cyberscoop.com/okta-zscaler...

I get that enterprise patch/vuln management is more than just clicking "update now" but 2010???? Do better, everyone

170,000 x $80/yr = $13.6m in revenue. But worth $150m. Sure sure.

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

The cyber girlies are fighting in the chats

Red Hat confirms breach of GitLab instance, which stored company’s consulting data cyberscoop.com/red-hat-gitl...

Oracle confirmed it’s aware some customers have received extortion emails. “Our ongoing investigation has found the potential use of previously identified vulnerabilities that are addressed in the July 2025 critical patch update,” Rob Duhart, CSO at Oracle Security, said in a blog post.

NEW: @mattkapko.com got his hands on the email being sent to oracle customers. Lots of broken english and pressure applied to pay up or see data leaked cyberscoop.com/extortion-em...

🤔🤔🤔

CyberScoop will have more on this phenomenon soon. 👀

Nearly every industry has been duped into hiring North Koreans in violation of sanctions, as technology companies represent only half of all targeted victims, threat researchers at Okta said in a report this week. cyberscoop.com/north-korea-...

For those who missed it last night: attackers appearing to be aligned with Clop have sent emails to Oracle customers seeking extortion payments, claiming they stole data from the tech giant’s E-Business Suite, according to researchers who spoke with CyberScoop. cyberscoop.com/clop-claims-...

CYBERSCOOP AFTER DARK: Attackers appearing to be aligned with the Clop ransomware group have sent emails to Oracle customers seeking extortion payments, claiming they stole data from the tech giant’s E-Business Suite. Early signs point to it being legit cyberscoop.com/clop-claims-...

During the tests, the model seemed to become “aware” that it was being evaluated...Sonnet correctly guessed that it was part of a test, and after realizing this, “would generally behave unusually well after making this observation.” cyberscoop.com/anthrophic-s...

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh what

Didn't even know this app was a thing until Zack posted about it!!!!!!!! What are we doing!!!!!!!!

I see the paper of record has another "get inside of the mind of a voter" feature that shows there really is nothing to get inside of. Can't wait to hate-read it again in six months!