Rick Howard: Give people resources. [CSO] [Career Notes]

Deadline-driven defense.

CISA directs agencies to “patch smarter, not harder.” The House fails to extend FISA. Europol pulls over AudiA6. GitHub announces npm security updates. Anthropic rejects Fable 5 jailbreak claims. CISA...

12 Jun 28min

The court calls Google’s bluff.

Google faces liability for AI-generated claims. Washington pauses public AI model assessments. Anthropic ships a safer AI model. OpenAI disrupts influence operations. Ransomware operators get a powerf...

11 Jun 31min

The patch pile reaches new heights.

Patch Tuesday goes big. Congress looks to harden critical infrastructure. A new Windows zero-day drops. Mobile AI creates security blind spots. AI agents fall for phishing. Browser extensions expose m...

10 Jun 32min

A checkmark for trust, a payload for theft.

Miasma malware meddles with Microsoft. SAP fixes critical flaws, Google patches an exploited Chrome zero-day, CanisterWorm spreads through npm, Mac users face a new malvertising threat, France investi...

9 Jun 26min

Meta’s recovery plan needed recovery.

Meta exposes 20,000 Instagram accounts through a support tool bug. CISA warns of active attacks on SolarWinds Serv-U. WordPress sites face takeover through a widely used plugin. A new Gafgyt variant b...

8 Jun 28min

Spoofing ships, jamming drones: how GPS manipulation confuses and compromises. [T-Minus: Space-Cyber Briefing]

GPS constellations have become foundational in modern society supporting everything from navigation to financial services, making the impacts of GPS disruptions all the more concerning. As reliance o...

7 Jun 26min

You've been muted...permanently. [Research Saturday]

Ismael Valenzuela, Arctic Wolf’s VP of Labs, Threat Research and Intelligence, discusses their work on "BlueNoroff Uses ClickFix, Fileless PowerShell, and AI-Generated Fake Zoom Meetings to Target Web...

6 Jun 21min

The NSA gets an AI upgrade.

Anthropic brings Mythos to the NSA. A Palantir executive emerges as a possible CISA pick. A Linux flaw is under active attack. Minecraft malware goes commercial. An npm package gets caught in the Mias...

5 Jun 31min