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, & customer trust.

This is always one of the year's best cyber conferences. Looking forward to this edition.

"Trump, who has joined with Republicans in Congress to shred federal support for electric vehicles and for solar and wind energy, is applying tariffs, levies and other mechanisms of [U.S. power] to induce other countries to burn more fossil fuels."

Zohran Mamdani: He votes for activists, not you

As states complain about @CISAgov's withdrawal from the local scene, CISA goes out of its way to promote its assistance to hack-stricken Nevada. . It says it's "examining state networks to identify the full scope of the situation and mitigate any threats."

Sorry, yesterday not today.

At a @CyberSecCenter event today, some experts argued the time for "hacking back" has come. "The very idea that in this current bleak state of affairs, engaging in cyber offense is escalatory, I propose to you, is laughable," @DAlperovitch said.

New: US & 12 allies release detailed report on yearslong Chinese hacking campaign against telecoms, transpo firms & other infrastructure. Salt Typhoon is just one part of this. Several Chinese cos helping Beijing. Govts urging orgs to patch flawed devices.

More evidence that open-source software dependencies are a serious problem: An employee of Russia's Yandex search engine is singlehandedly responsible for maintaining a package that's included in a U.S. military database of vetted software components.

Anthropic says a hacker used its Claude chatbot "to an unprecedented degree": Claude identified vulnerable companies, wrote infostealer malware, analyzed stolen files for extortion purposes, calculated extortion amounts, and wrote extortion messages.

I’m a Democrat running for Congress in Virginia's 2nd District because I swore to defend this country. We need a new mission in Congress: one that puts country over party and people over politics. Help us retake this critical swing district now.

It's unclear what Honey's newly created position — housed inside the cyber section of DHS HQ's policy office — entails, including whether she's supervising any employees or representing DHS in interagency meetings. DHS didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

DHS has appointed election denier and conspiracy theorist Heather Honey as deputy assistant secretary for election integrity. . Honey's false claims about 2020 PA election results made it into Trump's Jan. 6 speech.

My only Taylor Swift conspiracy theory is that she announced her engagement on National Dog Day because, as a cat lady, she wanted to steal the spotlight from dogs.

DOGE "uploaded a copy of a crucial Social Security database in June to a vulnerable cloud server, putting the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans at risk of being leaked or hacked. "

.@RonWyden wants the federal judiciary to authorize an independent review of the recent hacks of its case management system. He's also asking for details about the breaches, including whether @uscourts's cyber audits missed the vulnerabilities.

"One of the fundamental aspects of the American research enterprise since World War II has been the stable, apolitical, scientifically driven funding of research. And people are now questioning that."

Small scoop: Per two sources, @CISAgov has renewed its big JCDC manpower contract with @ICF and the other contracts that I mentioned here (Peraton, Nightwing, Sandia):

DNI Tulsi Gabbard's "ODNI 2.0" reorganization plan will eliminate the Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center and the Foreign Malign Influence Center, the latter as part of a continued encouragement of right-wing censorship conspiracy theories.

"At the same time, said González, 'it reminded me right away of, when you read in our history, about "degenerate art" that the Nazis targeted. I was like, "There it is: another sign of where they want to take the country."'"

"[Trump]'s efforts to expand its influence into spheres that were once insulated from political meddling pose a larger threat, potentially undermining the [U.S.'s] previously unshakable reputation as a reliable, predictable place to do business."

"All presidents have the authority . to declare a national emergency . But Mr. Trump has already invoked this power much more frequently than his predecessors and, experts say, for situations that do not qualify as true emergencies."