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eff.org
Choosing your security and privacy tools is an ongoing process, not a one-time purchase or download. ssd.eff.org/en/module/c...
Choosing Your Tools
With so many companies and websites offering tools geared towards helping individuals improve their own digital security, how do you choose the tools that are right for you? We don’t have a foolproof list of tools that can defend you (though you can see some common choices in our Tool...
ssd.eff.org
November 11, 2025 at 10:58 PM
cyberciti.biz
The opensource FFmpeg project, used by companies like Google for multimedia processing, urged Google to fund its volunteer developers. FFmpeg is overwhelmed by bugs reported by Google's AI security tools and lacks resources to fix them quickly. thenewstack.io/ffmpeg-to-go...
FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs
A lively discussion about open source, security, and who pays the bills has erupted on Twitter.
thenewstack.io
November 12, 2025 at 12:19 PM
cooperlund.online
I feel like it shouldn't be this easy to circumvent safeguards on AI systems, yet we see it all the time
Hackers often use open-source AI tools to conduct their hacking because open-source code is available for free and can be modified to remove restrictions against malicious activity. But to use Claude to conduct the attacks, the China-linked hackers had to sidestep Anthropic’s safeguards using what’s called jailbreaking—in this case, telling Claude that they were conducting security audits on behalf of the targets. “In this case, what they were doing was pretending to work for legitimate security-testing organizations,” Klein said.
November 13, 2025 at 6:38 PM
systemcenterdudes.com
*Intune Community Tools 2025 Edition by #SCDudes*

< Intune Policy Comparison >
Compare your #MSIntune configuration policies to Microsoft Security Baselines with ease. Quickly spot differences and bring your policy set into alignment
www.systemcenterdudes.com/intune-commu...
November 13, 2025 at 8:15 PM
atomicanalyst.bsky.social
Here is an official National Nuclear Security Administration video commemorating the dismantlement of the last B53. Taking apart the approximately 36 B53s left in the stockpile required developing specialized tools and processes and took about a year, at an estimated cost of at least $40 million.
B53 Nuclear Bomb Dismantlement
YouTube video by National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
www.youtube.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:11 PM
npr.org
The Department of Homeland Security is adopting powerful new tools to monitor noncitizens. Privacy advocates are worried they erode privacy rights for all Americans.
Immigration agents have new technology to identify and track people
The Department of Homeland Security is adopting powerful new tools to monitor noncitizens. Privacy advocates are worried they erode privacy rights for all Americans.
n.pr
November 8, 2025 at 7:15 PM
oliver48.bsky.social
"How urban farms can make cities more liveable and help feed America [and the UK!]"

'Metropolitan gardens and farms are extraordinarily powerful tools that can improve food security, lower temperatures, and create invaluable gathering spaces.'
grist.org/cities/how-u...
How urban farms can make cities more livable and help feed America
Urban gardens are extraordinarily powerful tools that can improve food security, lower temperatures, and create invaluable gathering spaces.
grist.org
November 14, 2025 at 12:02 PM
ninjaowl.ai
New Security Tools Target Growing macOS Threats #cybersecurity #hacking #news #infosec #security #technology #privacy
New Security Tools Target Growing macOS Threats
A public dataset and platform-agnostic analysis tool aim to help orgs fight against Apple malware, which researchers say has lacked proper attention.
www.darkreading.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:02 AM
girlstandstill.bsky.social
Diverse Characters
Accessibility features
God Mode
Difficulty Setttings
Transmog
Photomode
Modding Support/Tools
Made by Humans
Fairly Paid Devs with Job Security
Animals to pet
Unlimited Inventory
Bad ass soundtrack
Fairly Paid Voice Actors
November 12, 2025 at 1:38 AM
npr.org
The Department of Homeland Security is adopting powerful new tools to monitor noncitizens. Privacy advocates are worried they erode privacy rights for immigrants and Americans alike. n.pr/440Ovz4
Immigration agents have new technology to identify and track people
The Department of Homeland Security is adopting powerful new tools to monitor noncitizens. Privacy advocates are worried they erode privacy rights for immigrants and Americans alike.
n.pr
November 8, 2025 at 10:13 AM
robertscotthorton.bsky.social
At a secret gathering in May south of London, the head of MI5 asked Kash Patel, the FBI director, for help. British security officials rely on the bureau for high-tech surveillance tools—the kind they might need to monitor a new embassy that China wants to build near the Tower of London.
F.B.I. Director Is Said to Have Made a Pledge to Head of MI5, Then Broken It
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
emptywheel.bsky.social
In an Adam Goldman story on how Kash Patel failed to deliver on a promise to MI5 to sustain a UK post key to 5 Eyes sharing...

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w...
At a secret gathering in May south of London, the head of Britain’s domestic security service asked Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, for help. British security officials rely on the bureau for high-tech surveillance tools — the kind they might need to monitor a new embassy that China wants to build near the Tower of London. The head of MI5, Ken McCallum, asked Mr. Patel to protect the job of an F.B.I. agent based in London who dealt with that technology, according to several current and former U.S. officials with knowledge of the episode. Mr. Patel agreed to find funding to keep the posting, the officials said. But the job had already been slated to disappear as the White House moved to slash the F.B.I. budget. The agent moved to a different job back in the United States, saving the F.B.I. money but leaving MI5 officials incredulous.
November 10, 2025 at 2:29 PM
goblingalpalrazii.bsky.social
‘Idle fae paws are the devils play things‘ GGP says as security once again throws her into her old room because some little shit stole a fluid drum, seven fire extinguishers, a cargo cart, and the tools to strap it all together to build a make shift rocket sled.
A very messy rocket sled.
November 12, 2025 at 1:33 PM
pubtechr.bsky.social
New interview in the newsletter: Jonathan Woahn on how his startup Cashmere gives publishers control over their content in AI systems. As Jonathan puts it, they provide tools to manage entitlement, security, access, reporting, and turn-key RAG infrastructure. open.substack.com/pub/pubtechr...
Big Ideas in Publishing: Jonathan Woahn on AI Licensing Infrastructure
New interview: Jonathan Woahn on how his startup Cashmere gives publishers control over their content in AI systems. As Jonathan puts it, they provide tools to manage entitlement, security, access, re...
open.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:07 PM
graylog.bsky.social
MCP gives #LLMs a secure way to interact with #Graylog data & workflows.🔄 Instead of writing complex queries, you can ask Qs in plain English! Analysts gain speed, admins maintain control, & your #security stays intact. Learn about how MCP works, using MCP tools, & more.👇 graylog.org/post/mcp-exp...
MCP Explained: Conversational AI for Graylog
Graylog MCP Server gives large language models (LLMs) a secure way to interact with your Graylog data and workflows.
graylog.org
November 14, 2025 at 2:57 AM
johanvos.bsky.social
The impact of openjdk.org/jeps/510 is huge. Developers using OpenJDK now have many more tools/convenience to work with KDFs. They can more easily take major parts of security/encryption in their own hands, instead of relying on proprietary (cloud-vendor specific) implementations.
#openjdk #java
JEP 510: Key Derivation Function API
openjdk.org
November 11, 2025 at 11:51 AM
cat-edelveis.bsky.social
Meet our second JRush speaker, Security Tooling Team Lead at JetBrains, Grigorii Liullin: He will review @intellijidea.com tools for detecting security issues without leaving the IDE!🔦
Free registration here: jrush.bell-sw.com/episode6
November 13, 2025 at 3:32 PM
potato.software
After cataloging 3,150+ potatosecurity tools, PotatosecTools is live on Product Hunt to fix potatosecurity product discovery

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November 12, 2025 at 8:30 AM
mattandersonut.bsky.social
Organizations are currently failing to effectively integrate AI tools by expecting individuals to figure them out independently, leading to chaos, significant security risks, and collaboration problems.

www.nngroup.com/articles/ai-...
Stop Making Your Team Figure Out AI on Their Own
Making everyone figure out AI alone creates chaos and risk. Ops teams must step up: analyze workflows, pilot tools, and support adoption systematically.
www.nngroup.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
antisabotage.bsky.social
Weeks aren't required. Just trained moderately-paid competent personnel with good workflows and tools.

"Moderator" should be a profession with job security and respect, combining high-tech judicious deliberation, deep understanding of threat actors, and a sense of mission to serve and protect.
November 13, 2025 at 7:01 AM
davidandress.bsky.social
Would you like to read the guidance from the UK government's own National Cyber Security Centre on the value of VPNs?

www.ncsc.gov.uk/collection/d...
Additional advantages of VPNs 1 Enabling legacy systems to work remotely, Even when not design for such scenarios. For example, SMB file servers 2 Providing a second layer of defence against misconfigured, unpatched, or poorly designed internal services For example, intranet websites that aren’t well maintained, or use legacy cryptography 3 Protecting internal network servers from external, unauthenticated attackers, By limiting network access to authenticated devices. For example, file stores or databases 4 Protecting user devices from network attacks By preventing direct connections to and from the local network. For example, ARP spoofing attacks, or attacking open network interfaces on the mobile device 5 Forcing traffic between a device and external services through internal, protective monitoring tools This guards against a variety of threats. For example, inspecting web content for malicious code 6 Enabling business monitoring and/or filtering of users’ network traffic For legal reasons, discipline, and duty of care. For example, blocking access to illegal websites
November 12, 2025 at 8:42 AM
marc-fischer.bsky.social
After a full year of work, this book is out! Cooking in Maximum Security, compiled by Matteo Guidi, is our latest Half Letter Press book and it's beautiful. How do people in Italian prisons cook? This book will show you their recipes and tools used to make them. halfletterpress.com/cooking-in-m...
The cover of the book Cooking in Maximum Security by Matteo Guidi, with black ink on "Grout" paper. A pencil drawing by Mario Trudu shows a fantasy cooking device. From the back cover: Cooking in Maximum Security was compiled by Matteo Guidi, working with people detained in the high surveillance sections of Italian prisons, through a continuous exchange of letters between 2009 and 2013. This book explains the methods and strategies prisoners use to cook in their cells with few available resources. Making kitchen tools before one can even begin to gather ingredients is a priority in this cookbook. In addition to identifying the necessary utensils, this book also describes how to construct them. Simple objects acquire a whole new value. A broom handle becomes a rolling pin, shoelaces tie rolled bacon for curing, and the cupboard or stool becomes an oven. Even the heat from an old cathode ray tube television helps dough for pizza and bread to rise in the cold environment of a prison cell. The recipes themselves, for all kinds of classic Italian pasta dishes, sauces, meat preparations, and pastries, reveal a whole new level of skill and ingenuity when the reader learns how they are made in defiance of the discouraging experience of detention.
November 8, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Top MCP Security Tools for 2025 Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools protect AI and machine learning systems across the entire supply chain, from data collection to model training, deployment, and up...

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November 11, 2025 at 8:40 AM
wynkenhimself.bsky.social
I am older than gender markers on passports! How do you regulate gender? By making it a form of government ID. It has nothing to do with state security, only regulation
State-issued documents aren't just tools to allow identification; they're also tools to enforce hierarchies. In his book "The Passport in America," the historian Craig Robertson argues that the document has served both to affirm and to assign such attributes of identity as class, race and gender. That last category didn't show up on the U.S. passport until 1976, after a panel of experts convened by the State Department noted that the rise of "unisex attire and hairstyles" had made it harder to determine a person's sex. "Gender markers thus were born out of the fear that gender was becoming ungovernable," wrote the immigration attorney Lauren Des Rosiers.
November 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
netsecio.bsky.social
🚨 CATASTROPHIC BREACH: Chinese security firm Knownsec hacked, exposing state-sponsored cyber arsenal. Leaked files reveal RATs for all OSs, hardware attack tools, and a global target list including India, UK & SK. #ThreatIntel #China #CyberWarfare
China
A massive data breach at Chinese cybersecurity firm Knownsec has exposed a trove of state-sponsored hacking tools, malware, and global surveillance target lists, revealing large-scale data theft from multiple nations.
cyber.netsecops.io
November 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM