Becky Bracken
@beckybracken.bsky.social
Cybersecurity senior editor at Dark Reading; host of Dark Reading Confidential; multi-media journalist
State Data Privacy Regulators Are Coming. What Story Will You Tell Them?: bit.ly/40Ye03b by @nerdiegaga #DRTheEdge
State Data Privacy Regulators Are Coming. What Story Will You Tell Them?
Regulators are ready to enforce new state data privacy laws. Here's how experts say organizations can stay compliant and avoid penalties.
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February 1, 2025 at 4:25 AM
State Data Privacy Regulators Are Coming. What Story Will You Tell Them?: bit.ly/40Ye03b by @nerdiegaga #DRTheEdge
Here we go: www.darkreading.com/threat-intel...
Trump Fires DHS Board Probing Salt Typhoon Hacks
In a letter sent today, the acting DHS secretary terminated membership to all advisory boards, including the Cyber Safety Review Board tasked with investigating state-sponsored cyber threats against t...
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January 21, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Here we go: www.darkreading.com/threat-intel...
The TikTok ban is already going down very poorly cybersecurity-wise www.darkreading.com/threat-intel...
Has the TikTok Ban Already Backfired on US Cybersecurity?
The Supreme Court has affirmed TikTok's ban in the US, which has its users in revolt and is creating a whole new set of national cybersecurity concerns.
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January 17, 2025 at 10:18 PM
The TikTok ban is already going down very poorly cybersecurity-wise www.darkreading.com/threat-intel...
New from me on the new Biden #cybersecurity Executive Order: www.darkreading.com/threat-intel...
Biden's Cyber EO Gives Trump a Blueprint for Defense
New order mandates securing the federal software supply chain, communications networks, as well as deploying AI tools to protect critical infrastructure from cyberattacks — but will the Trump administ...
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January 16, 2025 at 9:00 PM
New from me on the new Biden #cybersecurity Executive Order: www.darkreading.com/threat-intel...
Extra bad Active Directory bug needs a patch: www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilit...
Active Directory Flaw Can Crash Any Microsoft Server
Windows servers are vulnerable to a dangerous LDAP vulnerability that could be used to crash multiple servers at once and should be patched immediately.
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January 3, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Extra bad Active Directory bug needs a patch: www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilit...
New from me on the “epic” US Treasury hack www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks...
Chinese State Hackers Breach US Treasury Department
In what's being called a 'major cybersecurity incident,' Beijing-backed adversaries broke into cyber vendor BeyondTrust to access US Department of Treasury workstations and steal unclassified data, ac...
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December 31, 2024 at 2:28 AM
New from me on the “epic” US Treasury hack www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks...
Like seriously yikes.
December 6, 2024 at 4:03 AM
Like seriously yikes.
People are losing their minds right? It’s because there’s no hope because the oligarchs suck up all the wealth by scamming everyone right? And we are all armed like soldiers? Yikes y’all.
December 6, 2024 at 4:01 AM
People are losing their minds right? It’s because there’s no hope because the oligarchs suck up all the wealth by scamming everyone right? And we are all armed like soldiers? Yikes y’all.
Banking Trojan RAT’s as a service operations are a thing now: www.darkreading.com/threat-intel...
Trojan-as-a-Service Hits Euro Banks, Crypto Exchanges
At least 17 affiliate groups have used the "DroidBot" Android banking Trojan against 77 financial services companies across Europe, with more to come, researchers warn.
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December 5, 2024 at 10:15 PM
Banking Trojan RAT’s as a service operations are a thing now: www.darkreading.com/threat-intel...
And money laundering. That’s what crypto is really used for.
It's called cryptocurrency, but new FDIC data shows that most Americans don't use it as currency—they mainly hold on to it for price gains, not for transfers or purchases.
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November 24, 2024 at 5:33 PM
And money laundering. That’s what crypto is really used for.
Over the next four years look to business journalists and journalism for information. Why?
November 22, 2024 at 9:22 PM
Over the next four years look to business journalists and journalism for information. Why?
This is… something www.wired.com/story/russia...
Russian Spies Jumped From One Network to Another Via Wi-Fi in an Unprecedented Hack
In a first, Russia's APT28 hacking group appears to have remotely breached the Wi-Fi of an espionage target by hijacking a laptop in another building across the street.
www.wired.com
November 22, 2024 at 4:52 PM
This is… something www.wired.com/story/russia...
Looks like DevSecOps isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. www.darkreading.com/application-...
Cross-Site Scripting: 2024's Most Dangerous Software
In addition to XSS, MITRE and CISA's 2024 list of the 25 most dangerous security vulnerability types (CWEs) also flagged out-of-bounds write, SQL injection, CSRF, and path traversal.
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November 22, 2024 at 4:50 PM
Looks like DevSecOps isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. www.darkreading.com/application-...
Drudge giving me serious WWIII kickoff vibes
November 21, 2024 at 6:46 PM
Drudge giving me serious WWIII kickoff vibes
New from me: www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks...
Palo Alto Patches Critical Zero-Day Firewall Bug
The Expedition appliance's PAN-OS firewall interface tool has racked up three critical security vulnerabilities under active attack in the past week, leading the vendor to advise customers to pull it ...
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November 18, 2024 at 8:53 PM
New from me: www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks...