Microsoft Releases Out-of-Band Security Update to Mitigate Windows Server Update Service Vulnerability, CVE-2025-59287 www.cisa.gov/news-events/...

Atlas ChatGPT is an example first gen start of the new centralized AI agent paradigm that eventually replaces your browser, websites, and email: www.youtube.com/live/8UWKxJb...

Check out my latest article: UN Convention Against Cybercrime Is a Huge Win! www.linkedin.com/pulse/un-con...

From Meta today...the start to cover your AIs with ads begins.

Phishing Campaign Impersonates Password Managers By Sending Fake Emails Saying They've Been Hacked And Telling Customers To Download a New (Trojan) Version blog.knowbe4.com/phishing-cam...

I'm reposting an article I wrote 5 years ago on quantum random number generators. I'm very proud of this article. You won't find better coverage RNGs or QRNGs anywhere. www.linkedin.com/pulse/everyt...

This is a big international deal. The UN Convention against Cybercrime will be signed on October 25th. It will finally make international agreement on particular cybercrimes and impacted sectors (i.e., what they all agree is absolutely crime). www.unodc.org/unodc/en/cyb...

Short news story/video on "cash bag" scams, where people are tricked into withdrawing money from their bank account and sending it to a scammer. I'm on camera a fair amount for the story. www.tampabay28.com/news/local-n...

That email from your password manager vendor asking you to reset your password manager master password is not from your password manager vendor www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks...

North Koreans are using public cryptocurrency blockchains (a technique known as Etherhiding) as command and control servers for their malware, which they then use to compromise people's computers who are unknowingly applying for fake jobs with fake companies. cyberscoop.com/north-korea-...

Check out my latest article: Even If AI Is Not Required, It Can Lead To a Big Improvement www.linkedin.com/pulse/even-a...

Former CISA Director Jen Easterly lays out her case on how to better secure the Internet...including by shifting security liability to vendors and using AI. Read her article. You'll be better for it. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

WTF? Half of all satellites do not encrypt the data they transmit. Your phone calls, your texts, your emails, your browsing habits...all available for anyone with a satellite reader (which isn't that expensive). www.wired.com/story/satell...

I'm once again arguing for the need for CISA to be many times its current size. We don't need cuts. We are in a war. We need to staff and fund like we are in a war. news.clearancejobs.com/2025/10/16/g...

Google’s Mandiant gives good recommendations on how to avoid being scammed by voice-based phishing attempts involving Salesforce instances, but really, their advice applies to all companies regardless of whether they use Salesforce blog.knowbe4.com/protect-your...

This is a pretty big deal. US cyberfirm, F5, reveals that it has been long-term breached by a nation-state that has resulted in customer data theft and theft of its source code. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

It seems likely that AI is helping to mitigate a particular type of cancer decrypt.co/344454/googl...

Check out my latest article: The Rapid Advancement of Malicious AI www.linkedin.com/pulse/rapid-...

Thank goodness it was the official security team and not the unofficial one

CISA's idea to move the underfunded CVE program to a Global Vulnerability Catalog (GVC), building and improving on CVEs and taking it global. I love the idea. securityandtechnology.org/virtual-libr...

This is a glimpse of the future...AI chat agents becoming your everything...helping to make purchases, summarizing and answering emails, making travel plans, etc. This is just the first step. Soon, you will have a personalized AI agent that does most things for them www.cnbc.com/2025/10/14/w...

Check out my latest article: You Will Soon Be Forced to Patch In A Day or Less www.linkedin.com/pulse/you-so...

Is this why our power is going to be more expensive soon? I'm sure this won't be abused or get out of control. interestingengineering.com/culture/open...

Fortune magazine article on North Korean fake employees (I'm quoted) fortune.com/article/nort...

Check out my latest article: Is It Or Is It Not an HP Scam? www.linkedin.com/pulse/hp-sca...

My cheeky response to another SMS scammer

I told AI to make a glass of overflowing wine. I guess it did??

Check out my latest article: CISA Needs to Add Teaching AIs to Securely Code to Secure by Design www.linkedin.com/pulse/cisa-n...

I’m against AI taking most human jobs, but sometimes find myself so disgruntled with the unhelpful human support person I’m dealing with, that I want to hang up and start yelling “AI agent! AI agent!” at the beginning of the call tree instead of what I normally do, “Agent! Representative! Agent!”

I wonder if the USA is the only country where the folks hiring a house cleaning service spend an hour cleaning up the house prior to the cleaning service's arrival, or if it's uniquely American?

After paying more for HP printer ink than the price of gold per ounce for the umpteenth time I am going to look into this.

After paying more of HP ink than the cost of gold per ounce, I think I may give this a try

Another human misusing AI

A great reminder and real-life story about a fake car crash scam that could have been more quickly mitigated by awareness and a family's "safe word." Have you established a family "safe word" yet? www.youtube.com/shorts/MTc2n...

Microsoft says New Phishing Campaign Uses AI to Evade Detection “In analyzing the malicious file, Microsoft...assessed that the code was ‘not something a human would typically write from scratch due to its complexity, verbosity, and lack of practical utility." blog.knowbe4.com/new-phishing...

I really like my co-worker's take on Human Risk Management (HRM) and how to do it: The DEEP Matrix: Your Map to a Unified Defense blog.knowbe4.com/the-deep-mat...

For people against default auto-patching look at the year these vulnerabilities are from that are being exploited today

Check out my latest article: Are We Tired of Being Hacked Yet? www.linkedin.com/pulse/we-tir...

Microsoft tells users with Unity games to uninstall them until Unity bug is fixed, the involved games recompiled, and re-released. Impacts hundreds of Microsoft games risky.biz/RBNEWS487/

11 Myanmar scam operators were sentenced to death in China, plus more were sentenced to jail. The criminals earned over $1.3B in illegal gains. People they kidnapped were murdered for not working hard enough. Kudos to China! risky.biz/risky-bullet...

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