Greg Otto

Microsoft’s monthly Patch Tuesday is first in 6 months with no actively exploited zero-days The vendor said six of the 83 vulnerabilities it addressed this month are more likely to be exploited.

March's Patch Tuesday is first in 6 months with no actively exploited zero-days cyberscoop.com/microsoft-pa...

Critical defect in Java security engine poses serious downstream security risks Attackers can exploit the defect in the widely deployed pac4j with relative ease, but researchers haven’t observed active exploitation in the wild.

I had @mattkapko.com look into a perfect 10 Java security engine CVE, particularly because i was astounded that was so little chatter about it cyberscoop.com/pac4j-open-s...

*taps sign*

cyberscoop.com/the-quiet-wa...

A subject line that reads: AI Is Fuelling A Surge In UK Reports of Witchcraft And Satanic Rituals

I get emails

The long-awaited Trump cyber strategy has arrived President Donald Trump released his administration's cyber strategy Friday, promoting offense operations in cyberspace, securing federal networks and critical infrastructure, streamlining regulations,...

The long-awaited Trump cyber strategy has arrived cyberscoop.com/trump-cybers...

DHS CISO, deputy CISO exit amid reported IT leadership overhaul Two sources tell FedScoop the personnel changes are part of a broader effort to consolidate IT and cybersecurity functions at DHS headquarters.

DHS is undergoing an overhaul of its IT and information security leadership, with multiple sources telling @fedscoop.bsky.social there is a broad realignment underway at the department to replace key technology leaders fedscoop.com/dhs-it-leade...

Pentagon gets new CISO with appointment of Aaron Bishop Aaron Bishop has been tapped to serve as the Defense Department's chief information security officer and deputy CIO for cybersecurity.

James “Aaron” Bishop has been tapped to serve as the Pentagon’s chief information security officer and deputy CIO for cybersecurity, the department announced on social media Thursday. defensescoop.com/2026/03/05/p...

@snlyngaas.bsky.social and crew had it first, something i'm sure i will hear about in a text message or two

FBI targeted with ‘suspicious’ activity on its networks The FBI found evidence that its networks had been targeted in a suspected cybersecurity incident, the bureau confirmed on Thursday, without sharing any further details.

NEW: FBI targeted with ‘suspicious’ activity on its networks cyberscoop.com/fbi-targeted...

I truly do think all of the "Noem out, Mullin in" posts and stories are failing American democracy right now!

Trump is announcing his nominee.

That's it.

If the Senate majority wants to confirm him, they're a part of this—even after knowing what they know now.

And that matters come November.

I kinda did this when I was messing with OpenClaw over the weekend, and i nearly slipped into a coma

No one told me the "vibe" in "vibe coding" was "bad acid trip"

NASA chatbots, Treasury coding, OPM drafting: How agencies have deployed Claude Federal agencies are working to halt their use of Anthropic tools amid a battle between the Claude maker and President Trump over how those services should be used.

NASA chatbots, Treasury coding, OPM drafting: Federal agencies are working to halt their use of Anthropic tools amid a battle between the company and President Trump over how those services should be used fedscoop.com/nasa-chatbot...

LLMs are getting better at unmasking people online Can online anonymity survive generative AI? A new ETH Zurich study reveals how LLMs can automate deanonymization attacks, unmasking anonymous users in minutes at a fraction of the cost of traditional ...

LLMs are getting better at unmasking people online cyberscoop.com/ai-deanonymi...

Love the part about the official CoD account saying the leaker was wrong. Are they gonna C&D every smooth-brained CoD player who expresses a terrible opinion on the internet?

Authorities from 14 countries shut down major cybercrime forum LeakBase The marketplace was one of the world’s largest hubs for cybercrime with more than 142,000 members. Officials identified and arrested multiple suspects after seizing the site’s database.

Authorities from 14 countries shut down major cybercrime forum LeakBase cyberscoop.com/leakbase-cyb...

Or use this company’s open source project? 🤷‍♂️

AI security company Fallen Angel Systems red-teamed their own AI agent and found it would casually leak infrastructure, creds, and personal details with simple questions - No jailbreaks, no prompt injection, no encoding tricks. Really interesting read - fallenangelsystems.com/blog/we-red-...

Well it nearly killed me but i have a viable openclaw bot that actually is already turning up stuff for us to cover. I am by no means a developer, but fwiw, do not try to hook up your bot to WhatsApp or Slack. Total nightmare.

The antithesis sentence structure sticks out to me now like the sorest thumb on the planet. I'm not anti-AI but, its just everywhere. Unique language stands out more than ever nowadays.

I'm learning this is the way

Oh my god the last instance of what I was trying to do worked and I didn’t see it and I deleted the container in a fit of rage I WANT TO DIEEEEEEEEE

Spent eight hours today trying to set up an openclaw bot that fed into a slack instance and I can, without a doubt, say that I’ve never hated computers more than I do than this moment in time

Senator puts hold on Trump’s pick for top uniformed cyber chief over lack of experience, 'vague' answers to surveillance questions A Democratic senator on the intelligence committee said he would block Trump’s pick for top uniformed cyber chief because his nominee “is not qualified for this job."

new from @dflawrence.bsky.social: @wyden.senate.gov said in a letter this week he would block Trump’s pick for the top uniformed cyber chief because he “is not qualified for this job” along with “vague assurances about following the law” defensescoop.com/2026/02/27/w...

Gottumukkala out, Andersen in as acting CISA director Madhu Gottumukkala steps down as acting director of CISA, replaced by Nick Andersen. The move follows criticism of agency performance and leadership shifts at DHS.

Gottumukkala out, Andersen in as acting CISA director cyberscoop.com/cisa-leaders...

Might dress as the Napster logo for the Halloween show

Metallica Announce Las Vegas Sphere Residency, With ‘No Repeat Weekends’ As expected, Metallica has announced that the band will debut its 'Life Burns Faster' residency at Sphere in Las Vegas later this year.

Ready to go into debt for this variety.com/2026/music/n...

Vulnerabilities grew like weeds in 2025, but only 1% were weaponized in attacks Too many defenders and researchers are paying attention to defects and unsubstantiated exploit concepts that aren’t worth their time, VulnCheck’s Caitlin Condon said.

Would-be attackers spent 2025 swimming in a sea of more than 40,000 newly published vulnerabilities, VulnCheck said in a report released Wednesday, but only 1% of those defects were exploited in the wild cyberscoop.com/vulncheck-ex...

Across party lines and industry, the verdict is the same: CISA is in trouble One year into the second Trump administration, CISA faces a 33% loss in personnel and shuttered divisions. Experts warn of "decimated" capabilities and a leadership vacuum as the agency struggles to m...

Former CISA employees say the "level of trust" between the feds and the private sector is weakening or gone, and they worry the country is moving toward a fragmented, every-sector-for-itself reality. cyberscoop.com/cisa-personn...

Across party lines and industry, the verdict is the same: CISA is in trouble One year into the second Trump administration, CISA faces a 33% loss in personnel and shuttered divisions. Experts warn of "decimated" capabilities and a leadership vacuum as the agency struggles to m...

With Sean Plankey’s nomination stalled, Acting Director Madhu Gottumukkala is overseeing a chaotic transition. One industry source told CyberScoop that "nobody would argue he’s doing a great job," pointing to reported security lapses and a "lack of capacity." cyberscoop.com/cisa-personn...

Across party lines and industry, the verdict is the same: CISA is in trouble One year into the second Trump administration, CISA faces a 33% loss in personnel and shuttered divisions. Experts warn of "decimated" capabilities and a leadership vacuum as the agency struggles to m...

CISA's brain drain is big: it's lost roughly 1/3 of the workforce. Congress has noticed: Rep. Andrew Garbarino warns that "the best and brightest have left," while Rep. Bennie Thompson notes the agency is significantly weaker due to this lack of manpower. cyberscoop.com/cisa-personn...