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Information Security professional. At least that is what people claim. More of an information security curmudgeon.
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Trump's Department of Justice keeps going after the president’s open critics and political enemies with accusations of the same crime.
Trump Administration Refers Rep. Eric Swalwell To DOJ: Report
Trump's Department of Justice keeps going after the president’s open critics and political enemies with accusations of the same crime.
www.huffpost.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Trump's Department of Justice keeps going after the president’s open critics and political enemies with accusations of the same crime.
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Jim Avila, a former ABC News correspondent who covered several major trials in a career that spanned decades, died on Wednesday. He was 70.
Jim Avila, Former ABC News Correspondent, Dies at 70
He spent almost two decades at the network, covering a wide range of court cases and the White House. He was also at the center of a defamation lawsuit over “pink slime.”
nyti.ms
November 13, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Jim Avila, a former ABC News correspondent who covered several major trials in a career that spanned decades, died on Wednesday. He was 70.
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"I have met some very bad people," Epstein once privately observed to a friend.
This Epstein Warning About Trump Should Chill You To Your Bones
"I have met some very bad people," Epstein once privately observed to a friend.
www.huffpost.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:52 PM
"I have met some very bad people," Epstein once privately observed to a friend.
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🚨this👇is a great resource 🎯(see the 2nd link from WHN for the webpage link you can share).
I've shared it with several folks already and the Q&A nature of the way the info is organized is resonating very well with folks.
I've shared it with several folks already and the Q&A nature of the way the info is organized is resonating very well with folks.
“Isn’t the pandemic over?” “Aren’t you done with masks yet?” “But you’re not high-risk!”
This Q&A provides evidence-based responses to these and other common objections, offering insight into why we still mask, filter the air and open windows—knowledge we’ve gained and continue to put into practice
This Q&A provides evidence-based responses to these and other common objections, offering insight into why we still mask, filter the air and open windows—knowledge we’ve gained and continue to put into practice
November 13, 2025 at 10:53 PM
🚨this👇is a great resource 🎯(see the 2nd link from WHN for the webpage link you can share).
I've shared it with several folks already and the Q&A nature of the way the info is organized is resonating very well with folks.
I've shared it with several folks already and the Q&A nature of the way the info is organized is resonating very well with folks.
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“I feel like journalists are bracing for what’s going to come next,” Julie K. Brown said.
Famed Epstein Reporter Says Maxwell Leaks May Be a Warning Shot
“I feel like journalists are bracing for what’s going to come next,” Julie K. Brown said.
trib.al
November 13, 2025 at 6:31 PM
“I feel like journalists are bracing for what’s going to come next,” Julie K. Brown said.
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Mel, a tech startup CEO in Rhode Island, said she refuses to pay, calling the way the federal government has been run in the past year “taxation without representation.”
My story on the growing "why should we pay taxes?" chatter on TikTok in the wake of the government shutdown.
My story on the growing "why should we pay taxes?" chatter on TikTok in the wake of the government shutdown.
Some People Are Straight-Up Refusing To Pay Taxes With The Dumpster Fire Going On
“Why would I work so hard to give the government my money when they turn around and give me nothing?” one woman said.
www.huffpost.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Mel, a tech startup CEO in Rhode Island, said she refuses to pay, calling the way the federal government has been run in the past year “taxation without representation.”
My story on the growing "why should we pay taxes?" chatter on TikTok in the wake of the government shutdown.
My story on the growing "why should we pay taxes?" chatter on TikTok in the wake of the government shutdown.
A short read on health insurance. substack.com/home/post/p-...
The Republican Brain Doesn’t Want To Understand Health Care
For 15 years we have heard the same lies and misrepresentations
substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:44 PM
A short read on health insurance. substack.com/home/post/p-...
The lawsuit aims to shut down the website infrastructure supporting the Lighthouse phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS), which Google says has affected over 1 million victims across 120 countries. www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...
Google sues to dismantle Chinese phishing platform behind US toll scams
Google has filed a lawsuit to dismantle the "Lighthouse" phishing-as-a-service platform used by cybercriminals worldwide to steal credit card information through SMS phishing attacks impersonating the...
www.bleepingcomputer.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:04 PM
The lawsuit aims to shut down the website infrastructure supporting the Lighthouse phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS), which Google says has affected over 1 million victims across 120 countries. www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...
Citrix disclosed CVE-2025-5777 in June, and researcher Kevin Beaumont quickly dubbed it CitrixBleed 2 due to its similarities to the original CitrixBleed (CVE-2023-4966). www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilit...
CitrixBleed 2, Cisco Flaw Wreak Havoc as Zero-Day Bugs
An APT hammered critical bugs in Citrix NetScaler (CVE-2025-5777) and Cisco ISE (CVE-2025-20337) in a sign of growing adversary interest in IAM systems.
www.darkreading.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Citrix disclosed CVE-2025-5777 in June, and researcher Kevin Beaumont quickly dubbed it CitrixBleed 2 due to its similarities to the original CitrixBleed (CVE-2023-4966). www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilit...
The Business of Secrets is the self-published memoirs of Fred Kinch. He was founder and vice president of—mostly sales—at a US cryptographic hardware company called Datotek. www.schneier.com/blog/archive...
Book Review: The Business of Secrets - Schneier on Security
The Business of Secrets: Adventures in Selling Encryption Around the World by Fred Kinch (May 24, 2004) From the vantage point of today, it’s surreal reading about the commercial cryptography business...
www.schneier.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The Business of Secrets is the self-published memoirs of Fred Kinch. He was founder and vice president of—mostly sales—at a US cryptographic hardware company called Datotek. www.schneier.com/blog/archive...
Microsoft announced the feature in May 2025, stating that the rollout would begin in July 2025. However, as revealed on Wednesday, this was delayed until early November. www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microso...
Microsoft rolls out screen capture prevention for Teams users
Microsoft is rolling out a new Teams feature for Premium customers that will automatically block screenshots and recordings during meetings.
www.bleepingcomputer.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Microsoft announced the feature in May 2025, stating that the rollout would begin in July 2025. However, as revealed on Wednesday, this was delayed until early November. www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microso...
What follows is a quick look at a handful of Quantum Computing announcements from the past few weeks that struck us as potentially interesting. arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Quantum roundup: Lots of companies announcing new tech
IBM follows through on its June promises, plus more trapped ion news.
arstechnica.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:55 PM
What follows is a quick look at a handful of Quantum Computing announcements from the past few weeks that struck us as potentially interesting. arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Google and Mozilla have released fresh Chrome and Firefox updates that address multiple high-severity security defects. www.securityweek.com/firefox-145-...
Firefox 145 and Chrome 142 Patch High-Severity Flaws in Latest Releases
Google and Mozilla on Tuesday released fresh updates for Chrome and Firefox to resolve multiple high-severity vulnerabilities.
www.securityweek.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Google and Mozilla have released fresh Chrome and Firefox updates that address multiple high-severity security defects. www.securityweek.com/firefox-145-...
Kellie Romack, CDIO a IT management company ServiceNow, offered five tips for CIOs looking to launch AI technologies at scale. www.informationweek.com/machine-lear...
ServiceNow CDIO's 5 steps to AI success
Kellie Romack, CDIO a IT management company ServiceNow, offered five tips for CIOs looking to launch AI technologies at scale.
www.informationweek.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Kellie Romack, CDIO a IT management company ServiceNow, offered five tips for CIOs looking to launch AI technologies at scale. www.informationweek.com/machine-lear...
The company has been under investigation by the US government over the past year for alleged ties to Chinese cyberattacks. www.cnet.com/home/interne...
TP-Link Routers Could Soon Be Banned. Here's What Cybersecurity Experts Say About the Risk
The company has been under investigation by the US government over the past year for alleged ties to Chinese cyberattacks.
www.cnet.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:42 PM
The company has been under investigation by the US government over the past year for alleged ties to Chinese cyberattacks. www.cnet.com/home/interne...
Google filed a civil suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York seeking to dismantle the group behind Lighthouse. www.axios.com/2025/11/12/g...
Google targets China-based scam operators sending Americans' toll fraud texts
This is the first suit of its kind targeting fishing-as-a-service.
www.axios.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Google filed a civil suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York seeking to dismantle the group behind Lighthouse. www.axios.com/2025/11/12/g...
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Seriously: What if QAnon was right about everything except the role Trump played in the conspiracy? www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-spen...
Trump ‘Spent Hours’ With an Epstein Victim, Epstein Said
What if Qanon was right?
www.thebulwark.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Seriously: What if QAnon was right about everything except the role Trump played in the conspiracy? www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-spen...
World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds
World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:33 PM
World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
An artist sneaked an AI-generated print on to a gallery wall before bemused visitors alerted museum staff. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Artist sneaks AI-generated print into National Museum Cardiff gallery
A visitor who noticed the piece says staff "admitted they had no idea about the piece or when it arrived".
www.bbc.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:31 PM
An artist sneaked an AI-generated print on to a gallery wall before bemused visitors alerted museum staff. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Tsunamis are notoriously difficult to spot on the open ocean as they race towards shore. But in the summer of 2025, scientists watched one unfold as it happened. www.bbc.com/future/artic...
'It sounded kind of crazy': How ripples in the high atmosphere warned scientists of a tsunami in real time
Tsunamis are notoriously difficult to spot on the open ocean as they race towards shore. But in the summer of 2025, scientists watched one unfold as it happened.
www.bbc.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Tsunamis are notoriously difficult to spot on the open ocean as they race towards shore. But in the summer of 2025, scientists watched one unfold as it happened. www.bbc.com/future/artic...
Jeremy Messersmith’s idea to rerecord Gordon Lightfoot’s epic 1976 song about the shipwreck became “all-consuming.” www.startribune.com/jeremy-messe...
Hear one famed Minnesota songwriter's 'Wreck of Edmund Fitzgerald' remake
Jeremy Messersmith’s idea to rerecord Gordon Lightfoot’s epic 1976 song for the shipwreck's 50th anniversary became “all-consuming.”
www.startribune.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Jeremy Messersmith’s idea to rerecord Gordon Lightfoot’s epic 1976 song about the shipwreck became “all-consuming.” www.startribune.com/jeremy-messe...
Attackers are running sophisticated spear-phishing attacks against company executives, with recent campaigns seen targeting enterprises in financial services and technology verticals. www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...
5 reasons why attackers are phishing over LinkedIn
Attackers are increasingly phishing over LinkedIn to reach executives and bypass email security tools. Push Security explains how real-time browser protection detects and blocks phishing across apps a...
www.bleepingcomputer.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Attackers are running sophisticated spear-phishing attacks against company executives, with recent campaigns seen targeting enterprises in financial services and technology verticals. www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...
Since August, analysts at security awareness company KnowBe4 have noticed Quantum Route Redirect (QRR) attacks in the wild across a wide geography, although nearly three-quarters are located in the U.S. www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...
Quantum Route Redirect PhaaS targets Microsoft 365 users worldwide
A new phishing automation platform named Quantum Route Redirect is using around 1,000 domains to steal Microsoft 365 users' credentials.
www.bleepingcomputer.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Since August, analysts at security awareness company KnowBe4 have noticed Quantum Route Redirect (QRR) attacks in the wild across a wide geography, although nearly three-quarters are located in the U.S. www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...
Security misconfiguration jumped to second place while injection vulnerabilities dropped, as organizations improve defenses against traditional coding flaws. www.darkreading.com/application-...
OWASP Highlights Supply Chain Risks in New Top 10
Security misconfiguration jumped to second place as organizations improve defenses against traditional coding flaws.
www.darkreading.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Security misconfiguration jumped to second place while injection vulnerabilities dropped, as organizations improve defenses against traditional coding flaws. www.darkreading.com/application-...