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📣 Nov. 11's #ThreatModelCybersecurity: OpenAi scrapes Google Search, 🤦‍♀️ @ NYT, WaPo cyber-breached, & more 👩‍💻

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November 12, 2025 at 5:36 AM
📣 Oct. 28's #ThreatModelCybersecurity: Twitter nuking 🔑🗝️🔑, Russia's bug bill, CBP backdoors Flock, & more 👩‍💻

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Cybersecurity: October 28, 2025 | Threat Model
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October 29, 2025 at 4:12 AM
📣 Today's #ThreatModelCybersecurity: Big Tech caves, Discord data breach, CISA allowed to expire, & more 👩‍💻

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Cybersecurity: October 7, 2025 | Threat Model
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October 7, 2025 at 9:39 PM
📣Today's #ThreatModelCybersecurity: Great Firewall hack, airlines aid fascism, SMS blasters in 🇨🇭+🇰🇷, more 👩‍💻

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Cybersecurity: September 16, 2025 | Threat Model
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September 17, 2025 at 2:27 AM
#ThreatModelCybersecurity for 10/14:

- More CISA employees fired or transferred to ICE

- MAGA-aligned “Liberty Vote” buys Dominion Voting Systems

- Study: backdooring AI is easy

- Evan Peters watched DEF CON videos to prepare for Tron

- Shady US investment group buys Israeli NSO spyware

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October 15, 2025 at 3:02 AM
#ThreatModelCybersecurity for 8/5:

- Tesla caught hiding data, lying about it, misdirecting authorities in wrongful-death-by-Autopilot case

- Robot 🐇🐇🐇 deployed in Florida to fight invasive pythons

- 'Lawfare' confronts the corrupt state

- Ukrainian hack reveals mass abduction of children

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August 6, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Weekly, #ThreatModelCybersecurity (𝘛𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘥𝘢𝘺𝘴) & #ThreatModelCovid (𝘛𝘩𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘥𝘢𝘺𝘴) newsletters supply vital, unpaywalled intel.

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October 21, 2025 at 11:30 PM
#ThreatModelCybersecurity for 7/29:

- Trump’s CISA pick is an election truther

- SharePoint 0-day blast zone worsens

- Ukraine’s hackers crash occupation servers, ground planes

- inside Auckland’s mobile SMS blaster attacks

- hacker slips wipe commands into Amazon’s AI

- DEF CON Singapore

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July 30, 2025 at 4:58 AM
#ThreatModelCybersecurity for 9/23:

- David Tennant's new show about UK ☎️-hacking scandal

- @404media.co sues ICE for info on 📞 spyware contract

- An <18yo MGM/Caesars hacker turns himself in

- ICE dumps 💰 into Cobwebs/PenLink contracts

- EEG wearable company stole users’ brainwave data

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September 24, 2025 at 2:41 AM
#ThreatModelCybersecurity for 9/16:

- Massive Attack used facial recog. on audience w/out consent

- Leak of 🇨🇳’s Great Firewall source code, docs

- Airlines sell 5B records to US gov for warrantless searching

- Proton suspends (then reinstates) journalist on behalf of unnamed cybersec agency

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September 17, 2025 at 2:27 AM
#ThreatModelCybersecurity for 11/11:

- Prior Trump lawyer & US-IZ ambassador running NSO Group

- License plate surveillance data used to hunt TX abortion seekers

- FBI targeting Archive⚙️is

- Assange doc unfortunately in the works

- Disturbing report re US domestic National Guard deployment

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November 12, 2025 at 5:36 AM
#ThreatModelCybersecurity news this week:

- major AI company revealed to be Indian code sweatshop

- Trump’s big CISA cuts signal retreat from defense functionality

- Trudeau’s spy phone

- GNOME defies haters, goes all-in on Pride month

- JAMA Pediatrics: “Long Covid is now common in kids”

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June 4, 2025 at 6:40 AM
#ThreatModelCybersecurity for 7/22:

- ATM malware jackpotters caught w/ 💰💰

- rise in portable SMS blasters (akin to stingrays)

- CrowdStrike outage affects 700+ US hospitals

- how Bellingcat tracked & covered recent L.A. immigration raids/arrests/protests

- NYPD gets access to Ring video

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July 23, 2025 at 12:33 AM
#ThreatModelCybersecurity for 6/17:

- DDoSecrets/DOGE bro to speak at HOPE hacker con

- cyber flashpoints in the Iran-Israel war

- Motel 6 data breach includes disturbing surveillance cam footage of guests

- SEC lets investment companies hide breaches at will

- 23andMe founder buys it back

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June 18, 2025 at 5:38 AM
#ThreatModelCybersecurity for 9/9:

- Salesloft hack blast radius expands

- 🇦🇺 Rad new makerspace

- 🇬🇧 Hacked Johnson files: withheld Covid comms, notes on Putin’s Covid “paranoia”

- AI Darwin Award Nominees

- rightwing dirtbags leaving Twitter

- Sarah Michelle Gellar: Covid-prevention hero

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September 10, 2025 at 6:50 AM
📣 Today's #ThreatModelCybersecurity: Salesloft hack, the Boris (Johnson) files, AI Darwin Awards, & more 👩‍💻

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Cybersecurity: September 9, 2025 | Threat Model
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September 10, 2025 at 6:50 AM
#ThreatModelCybersecurity is here 📣.
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June 18, 2025 at 5:38 AM
#ThreatModelCybersecurity 6/24:

- WormGPT is a real thing

- global spread of misinformation laws

- Musk shares his SSN w/ the world

- WhatsApp deemed security risk, banned from US House staff use

- deliberate AI traps placed in paper on how ChatGPT is making us dumber

- update on Sam cat

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June 25, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Weekly, #ThreatModelCybersecurity (𝘛𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘥𝘢𝘺𝘴) & #ThreatModelCovid (𝘛𝘩𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘥𝘢𝘺𝘴) newsletters supply vital, unpaywalled intel.

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October 7, 2025 at 9:39 PM
📣 Catch up on the infosec news of the week with the #ThreatModelCybersecurity newsletter 🧑‍💻

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Cybersecurity: August 5, 2025 | Threat Model
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August 6, 2025 at 5:10 AM
#ThreatModelCybersecurity for 10/21:

- NSO (Pegasus) v. Meta lawsuit changes after NSO’s sale to Americans

- John Bolton brag-shared top-secret info via his AOL acct

- Inmates hack prison IT systems

- NSA/ICE/DHS hack & dox story develops

- Proof of ICE informants among Portland protesters

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October 21, 2025 at 11:30 PM
🖥️ #ThreatModelCybersecurity for July 8th is here 🎉

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Cybersecurity: July 8, 2025 | Threat Model
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July 9, 2025 at 5:54 AM
#ThreatModelCybersecurity this week:

- Proton, others to leave 🇨🇭 if surveillance law passes

- 🇺🇸-sanctioned terrorists have paid premium X accounts

- Distributed Denial of Secrets shares data haul from Signal clone app hack w/journos

- DHS won’t tell Congress how many people it cut from CISA

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May 22, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Weekly, #ThreatModelCybersecurity (𝘛𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘥𝘢𝘺𝘴) & #ThreatModelCovid (𝘛𝘩𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘥𝘢𝘺𝘴) newsletters supply vital, unpaywalled intel.

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September 17, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Weekly, #ThreatModelCybersecurity (𝘛𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘥𝘢𝘺𝘴) & #ThreatModelCovid (𝘛𝘩𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘥𝘢𝘺𝘴) newsletters supply vital, unpaywalled intel.

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September 12, 2025 at 4:43 AM