Eric Geller

Seeing some folks say that Trump's cyber EO replaced Biden's software security requirements for contractors with a new NIST consortium. That's not right — Biden's EO had already mandated that consortium (§ 2(c)(i)), and it's already up and running. https://t.co/0boFDYgPlr https://t.co/UeyVER4Jgm

Generative AI is helping hackers write better malware, phish more convincingly, and seed open-source repositories with backdoors, a Gartner expert said at the company's security conference on Monday. https://t.co/JyP4fXMQMu https://t.co/gXEn0LGXPu

"Firearm deaths of children and teenagers rose significantly in states that enacted more permissive gun laws after the Supreme Court in 2010 limited local governments’ ability to restrict gun ownership, a new study has found." https://t.co/SodbJ5RyDy https://t.co/7TZlLBTlx6

Big cyber industry trend spotted at the Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit today: Vendors are using Star Wars LEGOs to lure people to their booths. Smart! https://t.co/Un5jwqcAJr

The departure of Green, who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee, sets off a guessing game as to whether his replacement will prioritize cybersecurity or immigration, essentially the two main pillars of the committee's jurisdiction.

Liz Elkind @liz_elkind

NEWS: Mark Green is retiring from Congress before the end of his term "Recently, I was offered an opportunity in the private sector that was too exciting to pass up...I will resign from Congress as soon as the House votes once again on the reconciliation package."

FBI Director Kash Patel taps Brett Leatherman to lead the Cyber Division: https://t.co/I9ovgfkq0T "Our charge is simple but not easy: make malicious cyber activity unsustainable," Leatherman, who previously led operations for the division, said on LinkedIn. https://t.co/XptIAgYCS2

House Homeland's cyber subcommittee is holding a hearing next week on ways to secure AI and use AI for security: https://t.co/po2wzjGgke Comes days after Trump eliminated Biden's AI security research programs. https://t.co/tZpDPaXVFv

Following OCC hack, financial industry asks Treasury to hold regulators to higher cyber standards. Companies also want to retain their own data (rather than letting agencies collect it) and "streamline" regulatory exams (so agencies collect less info). https://t.co/Us4nYBiWzb https://t.co/UQ6TbUbhzH

Most interesting part of this story: "There’s uncertainty among officials about who was impacted by Salt Typhoon. Various agencies ... are in possession of lists of confirmed or potential victims, but it’s not clear if the tallies are consistent..." https://t.co/HSl5fHHTbi

SentinelOne spotted China-linked hackers trying to breach one of its servers and hacking into one of its hardware vendors. It then linked this activity to a wave of intrusions into ~70 organizations in numerous sectors worldwide. https://t.co/hqzyq1YV5I https://t.co/RF62salfQm

This is fascinating. https://t.co/DQSagcD8rF https://t.co/vUTzahO9Qo

"It has now fallen on Mr. Patel, Mr. Bongino and [AG] Pam Bondi to make good on the promises explicit and implied — or show how hard they are trying. But they are running what amounts to a conspiracy theory fulfillment center with unstocked shelves..." https://t.co/b7NB0ci6PI

Ben Mendelsohn operates on a whole different level

major fartagaz | Andor Forever @fartagaz

Ben has clearly seen the kalkite memes https://t.co/nX1d0GijsF

"The grid operators in Michigan & Pennsylvania said they hadn’t asked for the orders and hadn’t planned on using the plants this summer. The costs to keep the plants open, which could total tens of millions of dollars, are expected to fall on consumers." https://t.co/X2AxFDvtNx

.@MakeIDbetter isn't happy with Trump scrapping Biden's digital identity work. "This language had strong bipartisan support and was praised by cybersecurity and fraud experts." https://t.co/iXwiE1HNMt

Eric Geller @ericgeller

8. Eliminates a section that encouraged agencies to explore and encourage the use of digital identity documents. (Trump falsely said Biden had mandated "U.S. government issued digital IDs for illegal aliens that would have facilitated entitlement fraud and other abuse.") https://t.co/uhngKPonhC