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How can we protect our critical infrastructure from cyber attacks? IST_org’s joshcorman sat down with theverge to talk #UnDisruptable27 and the consequences of hybrid attacks on our communities: www.theverge.com/cyber-securi...

How vulnerable is critical infrastructure to cyberattack in the US?

An expert explains why he’s especially worried about water and healthcare.

theverge.com

Keep your texts private, use end-to-end encryption apps like Signal. Info on e2ee and more at pausetake9.org/protect-your... #Take9 #CyberCivilDefense @pausetake9

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · last yr.

The US Grid Attack Looming on the Horizon: "A major cyberattack on the US electrical grid has long worried security experts. Such an attack wouldn’t be easy. But if an adversary pulled it off ..." #take9 #CyberCivilDefense www.wired.com/story/youre-...

The US Grid Attack Looming on the Horizon

A major cyberattack on the US electrical grid has long worried security experts. Such an attack wouldn’t be easy. But if an adversary pulled it off, it’d be lights out in more ways than one.

wired.com

New Orleans police used secret network of 200 facial recognition cameras to scan people on public streets and ping nearby cops. The "technology nightmare scenario that we have been worried about" www.washingtonpost.com/business/202... @douglasmac.bsky.social @aaronschaffer.com

Police secretly monitored New Orleans with facial recognition cameras

Following records requests from The Post, officials paused the first known, widespread live facial recognition program used by police in the United States.

washingtonpost.com

Wrapped up #IAPP25. It’s always great to hear from regulator and learn from and connect with friends and #privacy and #infosec pros.

UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity @cltcberkeley.bsky.social · last yr.

Glad to have met and learned from so many cybersecurity professionals from around the world at the Cybersecurity Law & Policy Scholar’s Conference and can’t wait to see the incredible work and scholarship that will come from it. #clpsc2025 #cybersecurity #infosec

Hackers are targeting more than just your bank accounts and sensitive information - they are looking at your water systems as well. Kudos to Waterbury, VT for joining @defcon.bsky.social Franklin to bolster their water system cybersecurity! 💧🔒#CyberCivilDefense www.wcax.com/2025/02/18/w...

Waterbury joins cybersecurity initiative to protect utilities

Hackers are targeting more than just your bank accounts and sensitive information.

wcax.com

Glad I made it to the inaugural CYBERLAWCON and looking forward to it becoming a regular fixture! #cybersecurity #cyberlawcon

Finished the #zeroday series, and setting aside qualms about accuracy, it was entertaining.

UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity @cltcberkeley.bsky.social · last yr.

This is like the twilight zone… www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...

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📢 Registration is officially OPEN for the third annual Cyber Civil Defense Summit! Join us on June 11th at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington D.C. for this one-of-a-kind gathering of cyber defenders, academics, and policymakers. cybercivildefensesummit.org

UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity @cltcberkeley.bsky.social · last yr.

We co-hosted our first Plenary Session for the Cyber Resilience Corps with @cyberpeaceinst.bsky.social focused on uniting incident response volunteers! Read our 9 key takeaways and stay up to date here: cltc.berkeley.edu/2025/02/11/c...

Cyber Resilience Corps Plenary Session #1: Exploring Reactive Intervention Systems in Incident Response for Community Organizations - CLTC UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity

On January 22, 2025, the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC) and the CyberPeace Institute hosted the first of three plenary sessions to launch the Cyber Resilience Corps, a…

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Bruce Schneier’s article about the hacking America without the paywall on his blog. Well worth a read. www.schneier.com/essays/archi...

DOGE Is Hacking America - Schneier on Security

In the span of just weeks, the US government has experienced what may be the most consequential security breach in its history—not through a sophisticated cyberattack or an act of foreign espionage, b...

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404 Media @404media.co · last yr.

We’re In for a Rude Awakening on Cybersecurity www.city-journal.org/article/were...

We’re In for a Rude Awakening on Cybersecurity

It’s a crisis that almost no one is talking about. The Chinese Communist Party is now the world’s preeminent practitioner of cyber warfare. Once notoriously loud and clumsy, the CCP’s hackers have bec...

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Microsoft study finds AI makes human cognition “atrophied and unprepared” 🔗 www.404media.co/microsoft-st...

Craig Newmark @craignewmark.bsky.social · 2y ago

Towns like Waterbury, VT are joining the #cybercivildefense by signing onto the DefConFranklin cyber volunteer program! WaterburyRound covered one of the first efforts nationwide aimed at shoring up the cyber posture of water and wastewater systems. www.waterburyroundabout.org/news-archive...

Waterbury joins program to defend water systems from cyber attacks — Waterbury Roundabout

Waterbury has signed on to be one of the first municipalities in the country to participate — at no cost — in a program to bolster the cybersecurity of its water and wastewater systems to defend again...

waterburyroundabout.org

Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 2y ago

OpenAI shocked and appalled that an AI company would steal intellectual property www.404media.co/openai-furio...

OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Us

OpenAI shocked that an AI company would train on someone else's data without permission or compensation.

404media.co

Phil Reitinger @philr.bsky.social · 2y ago

This is an amazing event every year. Please save the date and attend come June! @craignewmark.bsky.social

UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity@cltcberkeley.bsky.social · 2y ago

🗓️Save the date! The #CyberCivilDefense Summit returns to Washington DC on June 11! Join us for our third annual gathering of cyber defenders with a mission to protect our most at-risk public infrastructure. Visit cybercivildefensesummit.org for more details!

Is anyone in the #Infosec community at a MSP, MSSP or similar org interested in contributing to public interest #cybersecurity research as part of @cltcberkeley.bsky.social Cyber Resilience Corps exploring how those orgs can augment volunteer cyber services? DM me. cltc.berkeley.edu/program/cybe...

Cyber Resilience Corps - CLTC

What if community volunteers could protect our most under-resourced organizations? Community Organizations Face Rising Cyber Threats Public-interest community organizations—like nonprofits, rural hosp...

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 2y ago

Great read from @kimzetter.bsky.social on how drone sightings in NJ/NY turned into a scare about nuclear material. www.zetter-zeroday.com/anatomy-of-a...

Anatomy of a Nuclear Scare

How fake radiation readings in New York and New Jersey, coupled with a mysterious drone swarm, fueled a nuclear scare and became a harbinger for things to come The ongoing mystery around a New Jersey...

zetter-zeroday.com

we wrote about magic links and why we don’t want your password. we know this can be annoying in some circumstances/edge cases, but there’s no good way for us to create a password login system without putting people at risk: www.404media.co/we-dont-want...

We Don’t Want Your Password

Some people don't love our magic link logins. But the best way for us to protect your password is to never ask for it.

404media.co

Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 2y ago

For the past few holiday seasons, @carlypage.bsky.social and I have looked back at the badly handled data breaches of the year in the hope — maybe! — companies would learn from the mistakes from yesteryear. Nope! Here's our list of security shitshows for 2024. techcrunch.com/2024/12/26/b...

These were the badly handled data breaches of 2024 | TechCrunch

Blaming victims, months of silence, and suing security researchers all featured in cybersecurity in 2024.

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Dr Ravi Nayyar @ravirockks.bsky.social · 2y ago

Wishing everyone happy holidays!

This looks an excellent resource, potentially a model for us in the developed world and even in our infrastructural/cyber diplomacy in the Global South.

Playbook for Strengthening Cybersecurity in Federal Grant Programs for Critical Infrastructure | CISA

This Playbook assists grant-making agencies to incorporate cybersecurity into their grant programs, and to enable grant-recipients to build cyber resilience into their grant-funded infrastructure

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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 2y ago

1️⃣ ❗ EU Data Protection Regulators’ Opinion about training AI. This document reviews GDPR’s role in AI model training & deployment. www.edpb.europa.eu/system/files...