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Rob Wright
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Security news director at Informa TechTarget's Dark Reading, patron saint of TT's "Bagel Wednesday." Formerly of SearchSecurity, Tom's Hardware, CRN, and a whole lot more. Signal: rwrightTT.20
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November 13, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Good for Google. It's great to see the company taking action against Lighthouse and the Smishing Triad. That said...why didn't they go a step further and pressure Telegram to take down all the channels hosting this stuff? And if they did try, why not say it? www.darkreading.com/threat-intel...
Google Looks to Dim 'Lighthouse' Phishing Kit
The phishing-as-a-service kit, run by a group known as the "Smishing Triad," has powered massive amounts of unpaid tolls and package tracking texts.
www.darkreading.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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November 5, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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60 Minutes Edits Donald Trump Telling Them 60 Minutes Should Edit Donald Trump Talking About How 60 Minutes Paid Him For Editing Kamala Harris

60 Minutes is under new management and things are getting stupid faster than you might expect. Last night’s episode featured President Trump, which is…
60 Minutes Edits Donald Trump Telling Them 60 Minutes Should Edit Donald Trump Talking About How 60 Minutes Paid Him For Editing Kamala Harris
60 Minutes is under new management and things are getting stupid faster than you might expect. Last night’s episode featured President Trump, which is currently being described as “nuts.” There are all sorts of crazy moments to call out, but let’s start with the recursively meta nonsense. 60 Minutes edited out a segment where Donald Trump tells them to edit out a segment in which he brags about getting CBS to pay him because of them editing out part of an answer by Kamala Harris, and he notes that CBS clearly did the wrong thing in editing Harris in the same fucking sentence he tells them to edit out what he’s saying.
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November 3, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Fear the "SessionReaper" -- exploitation activity is ramping up for CVE-2025-54236, a critical flaw in Adobe Commerce (formerly Magento).
www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilit...
Fear the 'SessionReaper': Adobe Bug Under Attack
CVE-2025-54236 is a critical flaw in Adobe Commerce (formerly Magento) that allows attackers to remotely take over sessions on the e-commerce platform.
www.darkreading.com
October 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Techno-optimists in 2023: AI will soon cure major diseases, and those who impede its progress are basically murderers.
Techno-optimists in 2025: Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the Fembots!
October 14, 2025 at 9:35 PM
In the wake of Medusa ransomware attacks on CVE-2025-10035, Fortra yesterday confirmed the maximum-severity GoAnywhere vulnerability was exploited as a zero day. But there are still some big unanswered questions about the flaw. www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilit...
Medusa Ransomware Exploits Fortra GoAnywhere Bug
Researchers say exploitation of CVE-2025-10035 requires a private key, and it's unclear how Storm-1175 threat actors pulled this off.
www.darkreading.com
October 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
October 9, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Red Hat says their GitLab instance was breached, not their GitHub repos. www.darkreading.com/application-...
Red Hat Investigates Breach of Private GitLab Repos
A threat actor claimed 28,000 private repositories had been compromised, and the company said it had "initiated necessary remediation steps."
www.darkreading.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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CISA will furlough 65% of its staff if the government shuts down on Wednesday, keeping about 890 people to handle mission-critical cybersecurity protection work. www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/cisa-go...

As in other agencies, employees there are worried about potential RIFs of furloughed staff.
September 29, 2025 at 5:33 PM
For the second time in as many months, Infoblox has published research tying commercial adtech companies directly to malicious activity. This time, it's PropellerAds, Adtech Holding, and an operation tracked as "Vane Viper." www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilit...
'Vane Viper' Threat Group Tied to PropellerAds
Researchers say the commercial adtech platform and several other companies form the infrastructure of a massive cybercrime operation.
www.darkreading.com
September 16, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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When Trump took office, the FCC was creating a security label for IoT devices. Now it's probing the company it picked to lead the program over ties to China. I wrote about how this could affect the program's rollout, vendor participation, and customer trust. www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/fcc-cyb...
September 2, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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The Columbia settlement is an “astonishing transfer of autonomy and authority to . . . an administration whose disdain for the values of the academy is demonstrated anew every day.” New @knightcolumbia.org analysis of the Columbia settlement, just published. knightcolumbia.org/blog/what-th...
What the Columbia Settlement Really Means
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August 4, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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ICYMI last night: The Senate confirmed Sean Cairncross to be Trump's national cyber director, handing the reins of a relatively new office to a political operative with scant cyber experience. www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/sean-ca...
Senate confirms Trump’s national cyber director nominee
Sean Cairncross, a political veteran without significant cybersecurity experience, could turn the relatively new White House office into a major player in the administration
www.cybersecuritydive.com
August 3, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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February 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
A cyberespionage campaign tied to UNC3886 is using old VMware vulnerabilities to compromise organizations' virtual environments. Additionally, the campaign -- dubbed Fire Ant by Sygnia researchers -- is bypassing network segmentation to reach isolated areas. www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilit...
'Fire Ant' Cyber Spies Compromise Siloed VMware Systems
Suspected China-nexus threat actors targeted virtual environments and used several tools and techniques to bypass security barriers and reach isolated portions of victims' networks.
www.darkreading.com
July 29, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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This is an insane thing to write about game development. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/a...
July 29, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Awesome, GenAI is going full Longlegs.
July 25, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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This is interesting: After AT&T and Verizon refused to turn over Mandiant's Salt Typhoon–related assessments of vulnerabilities in their telecom networks, @cantwell.senate.gov is asking Mandiant directly for those documents. www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil...
July 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Trump wants to shift critical infrastructure protection responsibilities to the states. What would that mean for cybersecurity? Less support, more vulnerabilities, and more attacks, experts and industry leaders told me.

My new story: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/critica...
July 22, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
July 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Don't worry -- the techno-optimists say AI will save us.
wired.com WIRED @wired.com · Jul 21
Attempting to eliminate funding for certain kinds of “woke” studies, the Trump administration erased hundreds of millions of dollars being used for cancer research. www.wired.com/story/how-tr...
How Trump Killed Cancer Research
Attempting to eliminate funding for certain kinds of “woke” studies, the Trump administration erased hundreds of millions of dollars being used for cancer research.
www.wired.com
July 21, 2025 at 11:43 AM
The "Techno-Optimist Manifesto" was a giant, flashing warning sign -- to put it as lightly as possible -- and we drove straight through it.
July 12, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Just remembered that one of the big features the Tesla community are excited about is the idea that Grok will be available to talk to in Cybercabs soon... which with latest Grok developments, means you'll be sitting alone in a cab trying to avoid Hitler-loving Hal starting a conversation with you.
July 9, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Scattered Spider is back in the news again with attacks on North American airlines. Members of the loose cybercriminal collective recently breached an unnamed organization in an attack chain that began with obtaining the CFO's credentials. www.darkreading.com/cloud-securi...
Scattered Spider Taps CFO Account in 'Scorched Earth' Breach
In a recent intrusion, the notorious cybercriminal collective accessed CyberArk vaults and obtained more 1,400 secrets, subverted Azure, VMware, and Snowflake environments, and for the first known tim...
www.darkreading.com
June 27, 2025 at 9:48 PM