Security news director at Informa TechTarget's Dark Reading, patron saint of TT's "Bagel Wednesday." Formerly of SearchSecurity, Tom's Hardware, CRN, and more.

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For You "Elon Saved Free Speech" White Knight Assholes: Read the New Terms of Service Released Today X just updated their Terms of Service effective January 15, 2026. Here's what you agreed to: AI TRAINING RIGHTS GRAB: Everything you post becomes training data for their AI models. Every thought, opinion, creative work. You're building their models for free. No compensation. No opt out. PERPETUAL CONTENT LICENSE: They get a worldwide, royalty-free license to use, copy, modify, and distribute your content "for any purpose" in "any media now known or later developed." Forever. They can sell it. Give it to governments. Anything. FORCED JURISDICTION: All disputes must be filed in Tarrant County, Texas. You waive the right to join class actions. If they wrong millions of users, you sue alone in THEIR court. ARBITRARY TERMINATION: They can delete your account "for any other reason or no reason at our convenience." Years of content, connections, reputation. Gone. Zero due process. $15,000 LIQUIDATED DAMAGES: Access more than 1 million posts in 24 hours and you owe $15,000. Per million. Journalists and researchers investigating the platform face financial ruin. GOVERNMENT DISCLOSURE: They reserve the right to hand your DMs, drafts, and entire history to governments based on what they "reasonably believe" is necessary. ANTI-JAILBREAK CLAUSE: Testing their AI systems, exposing censorship mechanisms, or security research is now explicitly a Terms violation. They added "prompt engineering or injection" to prohibited conduct. ONE YEAR STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS: Discover they harmed you after 366 days? You "forever waive the right" to pursue any claim. MAXIMUM LIABILITY $100: They destroy your business, reputation, or life through negligence? Maximum recovery: one hundred dollars. Free speech platform. Sure.
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False claims like this — that voting machines are highly inaccurate — used to be the kind of misinformation that @CISAgov would debunk on its "Rumor Control" website. Now these claims are coming from CISA's boss and its debunking site is gone. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT…
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40 cyber experts urge Trump to drop his investigation of @C_C_Krebs, calling it "retribution." "An independent infosec community is fundamental to protecting our democracy, and to the profession itself." cybersecuritydive.com/news/c…
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.@magmill95 reports what I've heard as well: that Karen Evans, the only political appointee at CISA, is the driving force behind the planned cuts at the agency. Evans isn't planning to stick around at CISA, having been nominated for a more senior DHS job. politico.com/newsletters/wee…
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Honored to serve. We did it right. Defend Today, Secure Tomrorow. #Protect2020
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Trump going after his former CISA director @C_C_Krebs, who debunked his 2020 lies. He just ordered a probe of Krebs' leadership of CISA (including any "censorship"), revoked Krebs' clearances, and suspended his @SentinelOne colleagues' clearances. whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2…
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Many thanks to @ky_middleton for taking time out of her own busy podcasting schedule to guest on #ITOps Query. It was a fun, thoughtful convo about the double-edged swords of #cloudsecurity and #AI for #SecOps. Check it out! #devsecops #cybersecurity podbean.com/ew/pb-tg93t-16e5…
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I am thrilled to announce that @Mastercard is acquiring @recordedfuture for $2.65B. It has been an incredible journey, starting in 2007 when we wrote down the patent application for what became the Recorded Future Intelligence Platform.
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Russia's APT29, the nation-state threat group behind the Solarwinds supply chain attacks, is copycatting spyware exploits, according to new research from Google's Threat Analysis Group: techtarget.com/searchsecurit…
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Everyone: Telegram is encrypted. Experts: Telegram IS NOT an encrypted messaging app <CEO gets arrested> News: Telegram is an encrypted messaging app. Experts: Telegram IS NOT an encrypted messaging app.
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Okay, after finally reading/puzzling through CrowdStrike's Root Cause Analysis (the way the 20 vs 21 inputs thing actually worked is confusing as hell) I can empathize a bit more with CS's people. And I finally think I can explain what happened here in layman's terms: 🧵
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CrowdStrike must have been aware that these updates are interpreted by the drivers and could lead to problems. They should have implemented a staggered deployment strategy for Rapid Response Content from the start. A content validator, being code, can also have flaws or blind spots. Gradual deployment, starting with a canary deployment, could have prevented this widespread issue.
CrowdStrike Preliminary Post Incident Review (PIR) is released: crowdstrike.com/falcon-conte…
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Update from @CrowdStrike provides details on content of the problematic Channel Files pointing to a problematic "IPC Template Instance" Also confirms our analysis that crash was due to OOB memory read of invalid memory (not a NULL pointer deref. as some erroneously claimed) 👀
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