hello minnesota and beyond! thank you for your kind messages. it is very weird to be the news when you cover the news. i love this beautiful state and journalism, and i am hopeful for better days. but we will be forever changed bc of the last two months.
Posts by Crystal Diaz
Angelina Jolie used her Instagram platform to shed light on Russia’s so-called ‘human safari’ in Kherson. It is a deeply important and much-appreciated gesture.
Hey, so as a veteran and incident responder I need to warn you to pay attention to something in America.
The human brain is resilient. While you're watching kids get dragged away from the parents and people being beaten in the streets, you're accumulating trauma but also being desensitized.
Forget common backdoors — a DLL hijack in Windows Narrator can grant SYSTEM-level persistence at login. In our new blog, Principal Security Consultant Oddvar Moe shows how attackers abuse accessibility features and what defenders should monitor. Read now! trustedsec.com/blog/hack-ce...
Ransomware payment rates have dropped below 25% for the first time in history.
Coveware says cyber defenders, law enforcement, and legal specialists should take this as a validation of their efforts.
www.coveware.com/blog/2025/10...
I'm honored to have President @barackobama.bsky.social on Team Mikie.
This movement is about delivering something better for New Jersey — lower costs, more opportunity for our kids, and a government that's truly accountable to the people.
NSO Group confirms that it has a US buyer and whole thing is even sketchier than you would imagine: techcrunch.com/2025/10/10/s...
ICE reactivated its contract with spyware manufacturer Paragon Solutions. You can read more about it here, but what does that mean for using encrypted chat apps like Signal? 🧵(1/8)
Been on BlueSky for a bit now. Unfortunately I still have some valuable Intel sources on the other platform but each time I make the switch between the two it is so refreshing to see more authentic content that does not feel forced down my throat by some BS money grubbing algorithm. Keep it up!
Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users.
While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.
🩸& #threatintel | We (GreyNoise) just published a quick note (www.greynoise.io/blo...) regarding CVE-2025-5777 - CitrixBleed 2
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Another mindfuck is realizing that decision about some aspect of a massive company. There wasn't some process or jury. There's just Some Person that decided most of it. And when that person is you, you get it. People come and think a choice was some huge deliberation. It wasn't. You just... decided.
Sen. Bernie Sanders held a "Fighting Oligarchy" rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, when he received news of President Donald Trump's strikes on Iran.
If people really find this to be such an easy conclusion, then Congressional authority should be easy to get.
So why don’t they insist on a vote?
They know this isn’t “progressive” resistance. They want to marginalize it as such because on top of this war being ILLEGAL, it’s also deeply unpopular.
Note to self: start scheduling backups and don’t be surprised by cyber attacks from Iran or their supporters. Right after dismantling CISA, perfect timing.
An organization providing cybersecurity assistance to emergency services has shut down at the end of May.
The Emergency Management and Response - Information Sharing and Analysis Center (EMR-ISAC) ceased operations after CISA cut funding earlier this year.
www.darkreading.com/threat-intel...
Common headline these days: “impending disaster delayed a bit.”
18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people:
18f.org
🚨 #Sweden Wants Backdoors in Encrypted Apps! Lawmakers push for access to private messages in Signal & WhatsApp, but experts & even Sweden’s military warn of serious security risks.
Read: hackread.com/signal-threa...
#CyberSecurity #Privacy #Encryption #Signal #WhatsApp
Cherry Hill, New Jersey:
This seems like a phisher's dream. Announcing that a government email is about to go out and that recipients are required to respond to it seems like the kind of thing cybercriminals would love to spoof in order to infect workers or trick them into revealing their login credentials.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered U.S. Cyber Command to fast-track a long-awaited overhaul plan, @martinmatishak.bsky.social reports. DOD leadership also wants to know if CyberCom needs new authorities or faces legal hurdles. bit.ly/3D5zHoH
"Approximately 500 NIST staffers, including at least three lab directors, are expected to lose their jobs at the standards agency as part of the ongoing DOGE purge, sources tell @WIRED." www.wired.com/story/the-na...
There are moments in these deportation fights when I can just FEEL how pissed off they are that I’m Puerto Rican 😂 they want to threaten me with it so bad 😂
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is not a dictator.
He is a champion of democracy, freedom and truth.
The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?
This is why you fight these cowards.
The moment you stand up to them, they crumble.
Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights.
He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.
A tiny handwritten sign at the Tesla dealership as a big crowd protests Musk reads “We hate him too” yup 👍
Big crowd at the SF Tesla dealership protesting our unelected overlord. A tiny sign hangs from an upstairs window