Reporter and knowledge broker @CyberScoopNews, covering elections, privacy and more. Priors @fcwnow and @scmagazine. Catch me at [email protected].
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First reported by CyberScoop, Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, the GOP chairman of the Commerce, Science and Technology panel, are introducing the Telecommunications Cybersecurity and Resilience Act.
“The Salt Typhoon intrusion was the worst telecom hack in our nation’s history and showed us just how vulnerable our critical infrastructure is, but it does not have to be that way,” Warner said. “If telecommunications companies adopt cybersecurity best practices, our networks can be more resilient. This bipartisan legislation is a good start in protecting our nation and strengthening the communications networks Americans rely on every day.” hubs.li/Q04yqW530
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Joe Rogan to JD Vance:
"I'm not skeptical. I'm accusing them. I think they stole the election."
100% rigged.
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Arizona election officials say a hack targeting a statewide online portal for political candidates resulted in the defacement and replacement of multiple candidate photos with the late Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. via @DerekDoesTech youtube.com/watch?v=E4r3wuqP… | cyberscoop.com/arizona-secre…
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I talked to Republican lawmakers about deaths since USAID’s withdrawal from the world. Most brushed off the reports, and some insisted that people couldn’t be dying as a result.
“I don’t believe that. No.”
Read more: notus.org/foreign-policy/rep…
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A Wisconsin child care center closed for 5 days when the Trump admin froze funding for Head Start.
Parents scrambled. One family drove their kids to KY to stay with extended family so that the parents could go to work. Two kids left and never came back.
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Wow. The NYT used to be ~1% of all us newspaper employees. Now it's 7% and rising. The industry used to employ 150k, now down to ~30k.
Only the biggest can even stay stable, much less grow. (Even the NYT has only added ~2k jobs since 2018.)
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The biggest cybersecurity and cyberattack stories of 2024 bleepingcomputer.com/news/se…
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when you were apparently taking seriously the idea that Donald Trump was a some sort of opponent of security surveillance about anyone but himself life can come at you fairly fast
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When I asked Johnson if he would want to know if the top law enforcement officer in the country had sex with a minor or not he rolled his eyes and didn’t answer the question.
NEWS from @Reporter_Mia: Speaker Johnson weighs in on whether the Gaetz ethics committee report should be released.
"I'm going to strongly request that the Ethics Committee not issue the report because that is not the way we do things in the House, and I think that would be a terrible precedent to set."
Already on Bluesky but have been pretty dormant. Looking to change that. If you like me here, follow me there: derekbjohnson.bsky.social
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A postmortem, of sorts. thenation.com/article/politi…
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Sen. Rand Paul, soon to be chair of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, told me today that his plan for CISA is to either work to eliminate it, or severely curtail its powers. Read more here: politico.com/news/2024/11/14…
