Hormuz fertiliser block will upend world’s food production Any ceasefire negotiations must include a humanitarian carve-out for such shipments

Hormuz fertiliser block will upend world’s food production-The Strait of Hormuz is 21 miles wide at its narrowest point. Twenty-five per cent of the world’s traded oil passes through it. Everyone has been focused on that. But… www.ft.com/content/c139... @thekrebscycle.bsky.social @financialtimes.com

Just the Russian GRU doing Russian GRU type stuff. Kudos to all agencies (USG and allies) for getting this out.

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Hardcoded credentials in the Signal archiving tool used by the White House is a five-alarm security dumpster fire.

Put it in the Louvre

Krebs: People should be ‘outraged’ at efforts to shrink federal cyber efforts At the RSA Conference, former CISA chief Chris Krebs said recent efforts by China-linked hacking groups makes it more important than ever to grow the federal cyber workforce.

"Make CISA great again."

@thekrebscycle.bsky.social uncorks at #RSAC

On @therecordmedia.bsky.social

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“I dOn’T ThInK I eVeR MeT hIm”

Chris Krebs is America’s next profile in courage. The entire nation should support this honorable and courageous fellow citizen.

Chris Krebs at the podium with a sign that reads “Cyberlawcon”

Let the cybering begin! Happy to see my friend @thekrebscycle.bsky.social here @cyberlawcon.bsky.social and talking about not only what matters in cyber, but why cyber lawyering matters too.

🗼 🇨🇳 "The Chinese are preparing for war. Are we?" SentinelOne’s @thekrebscycle.bsky.social weighs in on how China's access to the cranes at key U.S. ports could impact homeland security and even the U.S. military.

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RIP Dry January. HTTC

I would never admit this to my neighbors. We’d have to move.

Grumble grumble

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It finally happened. In a recent move I threw out my "box o' cables." I thought, "nah, I'll never need those old things, I'm all modernized and stuff." Welp, today I needed a VGA cord to hook up an old monitor to an old DVR.....

The US says the FBI hacked ~4.2K devices in the US to delete PlugX, malware used by China-backed hackers since 2014, after obtaining warrants in August 2024 (Carly Page/TechCrunch)

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This never happened. Nope. Never.

Had a blast in Sydney, AUS recording a live "Wide World of Cyber" podcast w/ @patrick.risky.biz. Awesome crowd, timely content, & even better weather (early summer in Sydney ain't bad!). Sadly, no Kangaroo 🦘 sightings, but the biggest bats🦇I've ever seen! 10/10, would do again!

🇦🇺 SentinelOne's @thekrebscycle.bsky.social and @patrick.risky.biz dive deep into China's cyber activities, such as its Salt Typhoon intrusions into American telcos and Volt Typhoon prepositioning within critical infrastructure. What's coming in the next 12-24 months?

👉Watch more: s1.ai/WWC-ccp

Guess you could argue that volt only matters if activated whereas salt matters right now (God these terms are maddening)

Either way, I still think that focussing on ripping out whatever remains of Chinese infrastructure as the top priority response to salt flies in the face of the evidence about it

Also think salt, whilst important, is spying. Volt is more strategically significant as it’s a precursor to the disruption of civilian CNI, so way more serious & unlike salt a major departure from (a) norms & (b) previous Chinese ops

Absolutely - it’s salt & the naming are silly & unhelpful (I also posted about that!).

I do wonder though if this is a distraction: afaik from the publicly available info Salt wasn’t primarily due to Chinese kit but weaknesses in US (& other western) built, US operated infrastructure 1/2

For the sake of the special relationship I’ll refrain.

I could make a British cuisine joke but I won’t.

US Probes China-Founded Router Maker on National Security Fears The US government has launched a national-security investigation into TP-Link, the China-founded router maker whose equipment now dominates the American market and has been targeted in repeated Chines...

US Government moving on China associated TP Link as another concern in our cyber supply chain. Growing to dominate the residential WiFi and router market, they are seen as vulnerable and a tool used in hacks. Similar to advisories on Huawei and Kaspersky, move away!
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'A dozen Western countries - Britain, Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, five Nordic nations and the three Baltic states - agreed on Monday to "disrupt and deter" Russia's shadow fleet.' Including through forcible boarding. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

This week's show is up!

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Workers are adopting generative AI faster than companies can issue guidelines on how to do so; a survey says ~25% the US workforce already uses the tech weekly (Stephanie Stacey/Financial Times)

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