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#CIO #CISO. CEO of TCE Strategy. Technology and #cybersecurity advisor. Professional speaker and #author of "Secure Enough? 20 Questions on Cybersecurity".

Minneapolis, MN
Joined October 2008
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$6.3 BILLION in bitcoun stolen from Binance. Is this the largest bank heist ever? I'm thinking there's a good chance it is. The North Korean government is likely popping bottles at this point... buff.ly/s3TzLyt
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Wow, 41,000 DHS agents were just doxxed, including ICE agents. The doxxers have said they do not consider it doxing. They see it as an accountability tool. Thoughts? “The DHS especially as an agency completely lacks accountability, despite many parts...” buff.ly/UZhfOH2
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"The agencies spell out the motive plainly. “Election officials, candidates, and their political organizations are attractive targets to malicious cyber criminals due to their access to voter registration data, current government officials, or..." buff.ly/ymE8BOh
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Agentic AI cyberattacks are a thing, and are likely to grow quickly. "The four cases documented in this report likely demonstrate that agentic AI commoditizes baseline offensive cyber operations." buff.ly/xF1ioeI
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"'It does not appear that a customer can buy a new car that does not track you.' To find out what kind of driver data was being collected, and by what companies, the team of privacy researchers from Northeastern University tested 21 vehicles and..." buff.ly/GBiaPgA
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This is genuinely a big deal. Patch PHP on your website NOW. Like, right now. Immediately. buff.ly/stvmh0C
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This is another very novel attack vector. CAPTCHA screen that trick you into installing malware. Yikes... buff.ly/2x7oRUf
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AI was caught submitting tips on a murder case. This is not good. "One [Anthropic AI] agent submitted a tip to the Philadelphia Police Department about an unsolved homicide despite having no information about the case." buff.ly/7fU7TJl
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Warning, WSJ paywall: The case highlights a harsh reality for the growing number of Americans left financially devastated by scammers: Even when the government is able to seize stolen crypto, with no clear standards around who gets what, the recovery..." buff.ly/RptNj7X
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1400 vulns addressed one actively exploited zero-day fixed. Patch early, patch often. buff.ly/qoAoIZ6
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"The complaint alleges that Reiber repeatedly asserted that the company traced its ownership to Cyprus when in fact Davydov and additional Russian nationals owned and controlled the company." buff.ly/paWWUBk
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"The data breach is thought to be the biggest in the country’s history. It follows similar cyberattacks targeting government national identity databases, including a 2016 breach affecting millions of Turkish citizens and several exposures of..." buff.ly/QHmn9bm
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"This hacking operation, dubbed QTFY by U.S. officials, has been run since 2018 by a private company based in China, called Nanjing Xinjiuwei Network Technology, which sells access to hacked networks and stolen information to..." Warning, WSJ paywall. buff.ly/E2E5xLl
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It had never occurred to me to use a defrost cycle to attack the food supply. Apparently it did for these cybercriminals. buff.ly/yooFsFP
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"When their targets refused to send them money, they coerced them into making the payments using various manipulation tactics, including threats of publishing sensitive photos of the victim online." buff.ly/t7Kcz6l
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"To their surprise, these tokens were valid on ChatGPT, and some of them belonged to OpenAI employees. The tokens could also be used to access OpenAI’s GitHub service, a software repository." buff.ly/DBAOQ7P
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Want to know more about the inner workings of a Flock camera? Here is a very interesting look by unknown hackers and WIRED on the inner workings of the cameras. buff.ly/j0o3CjF
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"On a macOS browser, your-domain[.]com showed a fake "MacOS Security Center" claiming 4 viruses & selling a counterfeit McAfee renewal at 55% off. On another macOS render, yoursite[.]com showed a counterfeit ZDF article advertising an investment scheme." buff.ly/IiUrFnF
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