Jaya Baloo

Great opening talk by @jayabaloo.bsky.social !

We are excited to announce the closing keynote speaker for our TIPS Conference - Bridget Bean, Senior Official Performing the Duties of Director of CISA. Hear about key initiatives, including Secure by Design,2015 Reauthorization, CIRCA, Volt & Salt Typhoon, and more
Register today: lnkd.in/ghCW9y2i

Please have the courage to not “just follow orders”. You would have a lot of support if you didn’t.

FBI and Dutch police seize and shut down botnet of hacked routers | TechCrunch U.S. authorities indicted three Russians and one Kazakhstan national for hacking and selling access to a botnet made of vulnerable internet-connected devices.

NEW: FBI and Dutch police seized and shut down a botnet made of hacked routers.

U.S. authorities also indicted three Russians and a Kazakhstan national for hacking the devices, running the botnet, and selling access to it as a service.

techcrunch.com/2025/05/09/f...

Russia – Attribution of cyber attacks on France to the Russian military intelligence service (APT28) (29.04.25) France condemns in the strongest terms the use by Russia's military intelligence service (GRU) of the APT28 attack group, at the origin of several (…)

Completely missed that France has started publicly attributing cyber attacks last week

www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/country-f...

TIPS CONFERENCE - Cyber Threat Alliance The Cyber Threat Alliance (CTA) is a group of cybersecurity practitioners from organizations that have chosen to work together in good faith to share threat information for the purpose of improving de...

Now that RSA is over - where are you going next? @cyberalliance.bsky.social TIPS conference of course!
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Participants will explore cutting-edge strategies, innovative approaches, and the latest developments in the practice of cyber #threatintelligence.

EFF Leads Prominent Security Experts in Urging Trump Administration to Leave Chris Krebs Alone SAN FRANCISCO – The Trump Administration must cease its politically motivated investigation of former U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Christopher Krebs, the Electronic F...

Now is the time to stand up against the Trump administration as it tries to bully the cybersecurity community by targeting Chris Krebs. Sign on to our open letter:

www.eff.org/press/releas...

TIPS CONFERENCE - Cyber Threat Alliance The Cyber Threat Alliance (CTA) is a group of cybersecurity practitioners from organizations that have chosen to work together in good faith to share threat information for the purpose of improving de...

Our @cyberalliance.bsky.social Threat Intelligence Practitioners' Summit (TIPS) conference is coming soon! Have you registered? Don't miss out on some phenomenal speakers discussing critical #cybersecurity issues.
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What Are We Really Securing? | Jen Easterly | 17 comments In a few days, tens of thousands of cybersecurity professionals will descend on San Francisco for RSA, the world’s largest cybersecurity conference. We’ll talk about threats and vulnerabilities and, i...

An essential read from Jen Easterly, director of the US Government’s cyber defence agency from 2021-25, on recent developments in US federal government cyber security.

It deserves the support of everyone in the cyber security community 1/2

www.linkedin.com/posts/jen-ea...

The Mystery of ICE’s Unidentifiable Arrests In early March, the agency announced that it had arrested forty-eight people in New Mexico—a month later, their identities and whereabouts remain unknown.

ICE officers are now reportedly required to meet arrest quotas each day, from a few hundred to between 1,200 and 1,500 nationwide. Jonathan Blitzer reports on the mystery of the agency’s unidentifiable arrests.

CISA launches new wave of job cuts Critics warn that drastic downsizing of the DHS unit will threaten the nation’s ability to counter cyber adversaries.

“Whether the threats stem from geopolitical conflicts, such as Chinese intrusions into our critical infrastructure, or from cybercrime, such as fraud or ransomware, significant reductions at CISA will make the U.S. more vulnerable and less safe.” @cyallianceprez.bsky.social
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Join us at our Threat Intelligence Practitioners' Summit (TIPS) May 13-15th in Washington, DC area.
CTA's founding CEO's will discuss what led them to establish CTA, what surprises & lessons they learned. Fierce competitors sharing threat intelligence for the greater good.
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#cybersecurity

Voluntary ‘Pall Mall Process’ seeks to curb spyware abuses YouTube video by CyberScoop

Voluntary ‘Pall Mall Process’ seeks to curb #spyware abuses. The 21 signatories support a number of steps, such as banning vendors who behave illegally, in a document agreed to last week in Paris. via @timstarks.bsky.social youtu.be/tE6gJ1qO73o?...

Democratic FTC Commissioners file lawsuit against Trump over attempted firings The lawsuit asks the court to declare the president’s actions unlawful and affirm Bedoya and Slaughter’s statutory rights to serve out the remainder of their seven-year terms.

Democratic commissioners on the Federal Trade Commission filed a #lawsuit against President Donald Trump on Thursday, saying his administration’s attempts to fire them violate the #FTC Act and Supreme Court precedent. via @derekbjohnson.bsky.social cyberscoop.com/bedoya-slaug...

SignalGate Isn’t About Signal The Trump cabinet’s shocking leak of its plans to bomb Yemen raises myriad confidentiality and legal issues. The security of the encrypted messaging app Signal is not one of them.

www.wired.com/story/signal...

Another great piece from @wired.com, this time from @agreenberg.bsky.social

Whatever else this episode is about, it’s not about the security of Signal

You all understand the assignment.

Failure is not an option, internet. 🚀

Exclusive: Hegseth orders Cyber Command to stand down on Russia planning The secretary of Defense has ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions, sources tell Recorded Future News.

😡🤬

Exclusive: Hegseth orders Cyber Command to stand down on Russia planning

via @martinmatishak.bsky.social & @therecordmedia.bsky.social

Generations of American patriots, from our revolution onward, have fought for the principles Zelenskyy is risking his life to defend. But today, Donald Trump and JD Vance attacked Zelenskyy and pressured him to surrender the freedom of his people to the KGB war criminal who invaded Ukraine.

Trump and Vance are shamefully doing Putin’s bidding right from the Oval Office. It’s an absolute disgrace. I’m filled with rage as I watch this. I stand with all of you who believe deeply in the ideals of freedom and democracy. I’m disgusted by our president bending a knee to Putin.

NASA installs heat shield on first private spacecraft bound for Venus Led by Rocket Lab of Long Beach, California, and their partners at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Rocket Lab's Venus mission will be the first private mission to the planet.

Here are our 5 bullet points of what we did this week; keep in mind that NASA receives less than 1% of the entire federal budget.

1 week. All in 1 week. 🚀🚀

1. NASA installs heat shield on first private spacecraft bound for Venus

phys.org/news/2025-02...

Stealers on the Rise: A Closer Look at a Growing macOS Threat Atomic Stealer, Poseidon Stealer and Cthulhu Stealer target macOS. We discuss their various properties and examine leverage of the AppleScript framework. Atomic Stealer, Poseidon Stealer and Cthulhu S...

Thank you Palo Alto Networks Unit42 for the Early Share with @cyberalliance.bsky.social members: Stealers on the Rise: A Closer Look at a Growing macOS Threat
unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/macos-steale...
#CTAearlyshares #threatintelligence #EmpoweringCTA #threatresearch #cybersecurity #macOS

Here’s how to share sensitive leaks with the press Thinking about securely leaking information to news organizations? This guide will show you how.

I'm just going to leave Freedom of the Press Foundation's excellent guide to leaking to the press right here in case anyone happens to need it: freedom.press/digisec/blog...

Researchers from Mandiant & Ivanti look into an active campaign exploiting two vulnerabilities, CVE-2025-0282 & CVE-2025-0283, impacting Ivanti Connect Secure VPN appliances. They observed the known SPAWN ecosystem of malware but also new families DRYHOOK & PHASEJAM. cloud.google.com/blog/topics/...

cuPQC Accelerates leading PQC algorithms and advances data security against quantum computer threats.

This is pretty cool- developer.nvidia.com/cupqc

Tomorrow! Dec 12th #CyberNextDC
Hear gov't & industry experts discussing critical #cybersecurity policy & concerns such as Concentration vs Complexity, Regulatory Harmonization, GenAI, Cyber Luminaries, & more
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Join @cyberseccenter.bsky.social and @cyberalliance.bsky.social on Thursday at #CyberNext 2024 for insightful discussions on cybersecurity policy, threats, and initiatives internationally. I’ll be speaking on the “Cyber Luminaries” panel at 10 a.m. EST. cybernextdc2024.sched.com/about

Registration is open for #CyberNextDC 2024! Join us Dec 12th! Hear gov't & industry experts discussing critical #cybersecurity policy & concerns such as Concentration vs Complexity, Regulatory Harmonization, GenAI, & more!
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Join us Wednesday, December 11th 8 am PT / 11 am ET, discussing how the cybersecurity industry can work together to make changes at the systemic level, while maintaining competitive relationships crucial to a market economy.
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