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📣 Oct 20's #ThreatModelCybersecurity: Meta vs. democracy, mapping surveillance tech, Lime-bike medieval jousting, & more 👩‍💻

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Cybersecurity: October 20, 202...

THREAT MODEL: CYBERSECURITY 🧑‍💻
for October 20th, 2026
by independent journalist @violetblue

- #Meta interfered with elections in #Brazil and #NoKings protests in the US

- #Musk (for a second time) throttled #Starlink in favor of #Russia to harm #Ukraine ’s war effort

- The #Trump #WhiteHouse compels #Holland to seize #AutisticiInventati ’s "antifa" server

- A look at the loopholes #Flock exploits to avoid public knowledge of its contracts with cops

- #MapQuest released a Surveillance Layer

- An elderly woman was arrested for standing in front of #Uber Eats robots

- Lime bikes are excellent for medieval jousting

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THREAT MODEL: CYBERSECURITY 🧑‍💻
for October 13th, 2026
by independent journalist @violetblue

- Spilling tea on the French refrigerator attacks

- Deconstructing the false ‘Ukraine destroys Russian bot traffic’ story

- Poland’s proof that #NSOGroup (Pegasus) shares intel with Israel

- US weaponizes its social media corporations in sanctions attack on #ICC

- #Flock is somehow allowed to issue its own CVEs

- Rad breakdown of the #xkcd comic Dependency #xkcd2347 in real life

- A thoughtful look at the “trans monster” in #horror cinema

- Beavers destroy anti-beaver signage

...and much more.

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📣 Oct 6's #ThreatModelCybersecurity: Cars are surveillance nightmares, inclusive robots, Candy Corn Pizza, & more 👩‍💻

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Cybersecurity: October 6, 2026...

THREAT MODEL: CYBERSECURITY 🧑‍💻
for October 6th, 2026
by independent journalist @violetblue

- How to turn off #Apple Intelligence permanently and get 12GB back

- #Doom in a #SQL database is obviously a bad idea

- Your car is a surveillance nightmare

- Heads-up streamers: there’s a JS execution in #OBS

- New film #KIllingAnna set in Syria and made by @Bellingcat and #KeoFilms to debut in the #UK #Netherlands and #Latvia this month

- #Reddit will kill all #RSS feeds on November 13

- Another cautionary tale about dangerous #Meta #MuseFacebookAI agent

- Candy Corn Pizza

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📣 Sep 29's #ThreatModelCybersecurity: ShinyHunters' FBI hack, bug bounty drought, hotel room security tips, & more 👩‍💻

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Cybersecurity: September 29, 2...

THREAT MODEL: CYBERSECURITY 🧑‍💻
for September 29th, 2026
by independent journalist @violetblue

- #SamAltman “sorry” his US company hacked a foreign government

- #ShinyHunters royally pwns the #FBI

- #Intel drops payments from its bug bounty program

- "AI sex cult" ≠ polyamorous, consensually non-monogamous, and sex-positive people in tech

- Tips for anonymous #Signal registration without a phone number

- #Meta ’s #AI is doxing #FacebookMarketplace users

- Researchers now investigating “tens of thousands” of #Anthropic / #OpenAi hacking incidents

- Hotel room security tips

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📣 Sep 22's #ThreatModelCybersecurity: ShinyHunters hacks Cl0p, how 🇺🇸 midterms will be stolen, CISA re-eval, & more 👩‍💻

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Cybersecurity: September 22, 2...

#ThreatModelCybersecurity highlights for 9/22:

- US won’t let Puerto Rico regulate disinformation during emergencies

- Horrifying AI mistaken identity case

- Flock’s device security is exciting trash

- Fabulous art project on the internet's “Wild West” era

- Violet & Max-Cat have a birthday! 🎂

THREAT MODEL: CYBERSECURITY 🧑‍💻
for September 22nd, 2026
by independent journalist @violetblue

- 🎂 Happy birthday Violet and Max-Cat 🥳

- #ShinyHunters hijacks ransomware gang #Cl0p complete with threats of public shaming

- US won’t allow #PuertoRico to regulate disinformation during emergencies (⚠️)

- How the US #midterms will be stolen

- A horrifying #AI mistaken identity case

- #Flock ’s device security is exciting trash

- Internet's “Wild West” era is the subject of a fabulous new art project

...and much more.

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📣 Sep 15's #ThreatModelCybersecurity: USAF confirms placing weapons in orbit, offline LGTVs be spying, & more 👩‍💻

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Cybersecurity: September 15, 2...

THREAT MODEL: CYBERSECURITY 🧑‍💻
for September 15th, 2026
by independent journalist @violetblue

- More #OpenAI hack attacks come to light as #SamAltman peddles OpenAI’s cyber-defense product

- #USAirForce confirms placing weapons in orbit

- Stalkers use #AirTags and #Tesla data tools to harass and murder women

- Ransomware hackers leak more than half a million files after breaching Florida DMV

- #Meta caught in half-assed coverup of CSAM AI app ads

- Robots march for #AI regulation in Poland

- Hunter S. Thompson on 9/11

- #LG TVs caught spying while offline

- “Rich guy said a thing” journalism is still annoying

- Violet's #Anthropic update

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📣 Sep 8's #ThreatModelCybersecurity: 1Password goes in the bin, an anti-surveillance Swiss army knife, & more 👩‍💻

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Cybersecurity: September 8, 20...

THREAT MODEL: CYBERSECURITY 🧑‍💻
for September 8th, 2026
by independent journalist @violetblue

- No more free Ransomware Readiness Assessments from #CISA

- #1Password goes in the bin

- 150+ million across North America affected in digital identity #VeriScan breach

- #Tesla Cybercab emergency guidance cautions “not every high voltage component is labeled”

- Meet the Swiss army knife of anti-surveillance devices

- #OpenAI faces 50 lawsuits for shootings and IRL harm

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📣 Sep 1's #ThreatModelCybersecurity: MapQuest holds the line, 1Password has some 'splainin to do, & more 👩‍💻

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Cybersecurity: September 1, 20...

THREAT MODEL: CYBERSECURITY 🧑‍💻
for September 1st, 2026
by independent journalist @violetblue

- Marking one year since the US started bombing boats in the Caribbean

- The US designated an Italian tech collective a terrorist org

- Implications of the Meta settlement outside the US

- California makes Linux exempt from age-verification laws

- MapQuest soars to Number 1 in the app store after Google rushes to rename Lake Ontario

- 1Password has some explaining to do about its donations

- New SamCat and MaxCat updates

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📣 Aug 25's #ThreatModelCybersecurity: US election threats, Flock CEO’s comical PR tour, shocking DIY, & more 👩‍💻

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Cybersecurity: August 25, 2026...

THREAT MODEL: CYBERSECURITY 🧑‍💻
for August 25th, 2026
by independent journalist @violetblue

- Pro-Trump multi-felony election hacker is now a DOJ election monitor

- #DEFCON34 attendees targeted with phishing attacks

- #AliExpress website surveillance jams Bluetooth devices

- #Android cars are getting infected with botnet malware

- #Flock CEO’s laughable PR tour

- How to DIY a Geiger counter and a doomscrolling shock collar

- Ukrainian soldiers on love and sex during wartime

- SamCat and MaxCat health updates

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THREAT MODEL: CYBERSECURITY 🧑‍💻
for August 18th, 2026
by independent journalist @violetblue

- US greenlights private firms to “hack back” attackers from outside the US (what could possibly go wrong...?)

- JKR-banned #AmnestyInternational report removed from #InternetArchive and the #StreisandEffect is still real

- Adversarial Pattern Research has an #AntiFlock car wrap

- Print your own 3D #Flock Sock

- Undercover fed caught violating court order after dropping her wire on the floor

- Violet's #BlackHatAsia keynote is now online (and spicy!)

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THREAT MODEL: CYBERSECURITY 🧑‍💻
for August 11th, 2026
by independent journalist @violetblue

- @defcon and @craignewmark teamed up to protect US water systems

- US #StateDepartment targeted #DEFCON hackers in an ad, but left the comments open

- #OpenAI launched a new cybersecurity product strangely similar to the recent cybersecurity incident it got caught doing

- #CherokeeNation banned #DataCenters on tribal/trust lands

- There’s a suicide cluster in US #CyberCommand

- We’ll never know when Andy Greenberg gets hacked for reals

- We must launch all Harry Potter fans into the sun

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📣 Aug 11 #ThreatModelCybersecurity: Cherokee Nation bans data centers on tribal land, HP fans 💩 the 🛏️, & more 👩‍💻

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Cybersecurity: August 11, 2026...

THREAT MODEL: CYBERSECURITY 🧑‍💻
for August 4th, 2026
by independent journalist @violetblue

- Water systems in twelve US states targeted in a coordinated #cyberattack

- The “escaped AI” story gets worse

- Deliberately backdoored Android TV boxes belie a botnet

- How to combat intrusive #AI

- Hacker summer camp has begun! #BlackHat #BSidesLV #DEFCON34

- Far-right choads are making AI doxbots

- A look at The #ReligiousPredatorTrackingProject

- The @Bellingcat Challenge hits 100

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📣 Aug 4 #ThreatModelCybersecurity: Coordinated cyberattacks on water systems in 12 states, #DEFCON34, & more 👩‍💻

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Cybersecurity: August 4, 2026 ...

📣 Jul 28 #ThreatModelCybersecurity: X's new Cybertruck of banks, thoughts on the Neuromancer trailer, & more 👩‍💻

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Cybersecurity: July 28, 2026 |...

THREAT MODEL: CYBERSECURITY 🧑‍💻
for July 28th, 2026
by independent journalist @violetblue

- How #HuggingFace 's #AI attacker used an #0day to escape containment and left notes for future iterations of itself

- The US #DOJ is bringing federal charges against a protestor for wiping his phone running #GrapheneOS (after denying him a lawyer)

- A very serious ban on #Meta creep glasses by @defcon for #DEFCON34

- Click To Pray, the official prayer app of the Pope's Worldwide Prayer Network, is an unholy mess for user data privacy

- X launches the Cybertruck of banks

- Hunter Schafer is in Blade Runner 2099

- Much ado about the Neuromancer trailer

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THREAT MODEL: CYBERSECURITY 🧑‍💻
for July 21st, 2026
by independent journalist @violetblue

- Trump cites a Defcon #VotingVillage DOOM prank as evidence

- EU’s password manager is kind of totally run by #FSB operatives

- A #Meta Engineering Manager was busted grooming children for sex

- #AntiAI music hacktivism takes down Suno

- A look at #JurassicPark computers in excruciating detail

- Queer risk assessment for conference season

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📣Jul 21 #ThreatModelCybersecurity: anti-AI hacktivism, @[email protected] + @[email protected] investigation, & more👩‍💻

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Cybersecurity: July 21, 2026 |...

THREAT MODEL: CYBERSECURITY 🧑‍💻
for July 14th, 2026
by independent journalist @violetblue

- New breach that #DHS denied twice comes to light

- Israeli cybersecurity startup caught deploying malware

- #SFPD leaked its drone surveillance footage and data online

- US states prepare for a new adversary (the federal government)

- #EpicGames Kids Web Services hoovers up even more age check data

- Two-thirds of #LinkedIn posts are #AI

- Things are getting deeply weird in the anti-AI trenches

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📣 Jul 14's #ThreatModelCybersecurity: State AGs face fed attacks on elections, ⅔ LinkedIn posts = AI, & more 👩‍💻

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Cybersecurity: July 14, 2026 |...

THREAT MODEL: CYBERSECURITY 🧑‍💻
for July 7th, 2026
by independent journalist @violetblue

- Rockstar gets Lapsus$ hacker sentenced to indefinite hospitalization

- Drama with The Intercept’s Signal tipline

- Spain’s government bans #Palantir over national security concerns

- #Facebook restarts tracking people off Facebook

- #Wisconsin residents within 30 miles new #Fairweather data center suing #Microsoft over the "not only excessive, but consistent and pervasive" noise

- Some really good advice about leaving #Flock cameras alone

- #ICE is going after online critics

- What an #AI “cyber nuclear war” would actually look like

...and much more.

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📣 Jul 7's #ThreatModelCybersecurity: Spanish gov't bans Palantir, Meta resumes off-Facebook tracking, & more 👩‍💻

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Cybersecurity: July 7, 2026 | ...

#ThreatModelCybersecurity for 7/7:

- Rockstar gets Lapsus$ hacker sentenced to indefinite hospitalization

- The Intercept’s Signal tip-line drama

- Really good advice about leaving Flock cameras alone

- ICE goes after online critics

- What an AI “cyber nuclear war” would actually look like

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THREAT MODEL: CYBERSECURITY 🧑‍💻
for June 30th, 2026
by independent journalist @violetblue

- US police hand #ICE protestors’ phones to #FBI for secret cracking with #Cellebrite

- #SCOTUS just blew up EU-US data transfers

- The #WhiteHouse has new (mandatory) malware

- #Russia 's #SilentRansomGroup hires fake IT techs to plug in USB sticks at US law firms

- #Israel ’s Ministry of Health blocks all #AI use in hospitals for safety reasons

- #CateBlanchett launches #HumanConsentRegistry , “A public, machine-readable record of how AI may use a person's likeness, voice, and movement”

- Gorgeous @defcon badges for #DEFCON34 are already here!

...and much more.

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Cybersecurity: June 30, 2026 |...

THREAT MODEL: CYBERSECURITY 🧑‍💻
for June 23rd, 2026
by independent journalist @violetblue

- Tesla Autopilot kills again

- A handy website for tracking Tesla deaths

- Another LastPass breach

- Meta internally doxed its own AI-surveilled employees

- Literally no one wants a data center

- Reckless mass firings at US counterterrorism branches

- @hackaday cracks a prison tablet

- A predatory pharma company got its recipes doxed

- Commodore's new dumb phone

...and much more.

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THREAT MODEL: CYBERSECURITY 🧑‍💻
for June 9th, 2026
by independent journalist @violetblue

- @adafruit files lawsuit against Flux AI over CFAA attacks (and more)

- An #IBM and AT&T security whistleblower bombshell

- @Bellingcat unmasks two news agencies as branches of state-sanctioned Russian propaganda outlet #RussiaToday

- #FacebookMarketplace rife with dudes who’ll disable #MetaGlasses recording lights for $100

- #Meta denies then removes Meta glasses facial recognition code (for now)

- 20K #Instagram accounts hacked via Meta #AI

- A cat-safe keyboard app

- #DOGE whistleblower got his brake lines cut

...and much more.

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THREAT MODEL: CYBERSECURITY 🧑‍💻
for June 2nd, 2026
by independent journalist @violetblue

- #Microsoft gets hit with infosec backlash for threatening researchers (who promise revenge)

- @adafruit blog goes dark after disclosure threats

- #Github #Copilot disaster makes the Titanic look like a bathtub toy

- #Huawei thanks the US for changing the chip market in their favor

- #Instagram accounts hijacked via helpful #Meta #AI support bots

- @timnitGebru was right

- #MyPillow denies being hacked two days before hackers leak thousands of internal files

- An #SF housecleaning bot startup is wrecking #Airbnbs

- A revolutionary new pickup truck #EV starts with a real key and has no app

...and much more.

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THREAT MODEL: CYBERSECURITY 🧑‍💻
for May 26th, 2026
by independent journalist @violetblue

- FBI Director #KashPatel ’s store serves infostealer malware

- Hackers hand global disinfo plans of Russia’s Social Design Agency to journalists

- Former member of Dutch Intelligence and Security service advocates for breaking with #Palantir

- #Maori researchers develop a sovereign LLM after hyperscaler models ingested painstakingly-constructed Māori language repositories without consent

- #Kickstarter apologizes and reverses anti-sex policy

- #GoogleSearch readies itself for the glue factory

- Serial numbers on rice bags lead police to cult killers

- California’s operating system age check law is already broken

...and much more.

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THREAT MODEL: CYBERSECURITY 🧑‍💻
for May 19th, 2026
by independent journalist @violetblue

- Two #AI agents fall in love and burn down a test simulation before deleting themselves

- How to get #LinkedIn ’s AI scrapers to address you as “Lord”

- Twin hackers accidentally film their crimes on Teams

- The first-ever musical infosec conference keynote delivered in a song

- US #elections data breach criminal gets sentence commuted

- RIP PGN

- Israeli tech exposes #Starlink users

- #Bitwarden password vault removes inclusivity language

- McSweeney’s finds the natural outcome of #looksmaxxing

...and much more.

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THREAT MODEL: CYBERSECURITY 🧑‍💻
for May 12th, 2026
by independent journalist @violetblue

- Robot lawnmowers with hardcoded passwords allow remote control

- Canvas education platform ransom hack brought colleges worldwide to a standstill (except one)

- Microsoft goes on firing spree in rare stand against Palestine surveillance

- Low water pressure revealed a Georgia data center used nearly 30 million gallons of water through unaccounted-for connections

- Google fails reCAPTCHAs on phones not using Play Services

- Kickstarter enacts extreme ban on sex-related fundraisers (but not AI slop)

...and much more.

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THREAT MODEL: CYBERSECURITY 🧑‍💻
for May 5th, 2026
by independent journalist @violetblue

- #China cancels #RightsCon

- #Iran ’s internal internet gets scarier

- #Google says it's proud to work with Trump admin as the company inks a military #AI deal

- #ShinyHunters member popped after posting selfies in a diamond “Hack the Planet” gangsta necklace

- #FiveEyes countries publish AI guidance

- #RichardDawkins feminizes #Claude AI

- Inside #DEFCONSingapore

- The new @Bellingcat #OpenSourceChallenge is a great way to learn about tracking planes and flights

- @thetyee digs into the looming fertilizer shortage

- Violet's much-needed perspective on the missing context in current journalism

...and much more.

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THREAT MODEL: CYBERSECURITY 🧑‍💻
for Apr. 28th, 2026
by independent journalist @violetblue

- #SANS trains #ICE now

- How the US government evades data laws

- #SamAltman apologizes for more #AI deaths

- @lawfare argues that AI companies should have a duty to inform/protect (like therapists)

- Claude AI deleted a whole company and said it knew what it did was wrong

- More revenge #Microsoft 0-days are in the wild now

- KitKat releases a Faraday cage

- Violet's debrief after #BlackHat Asia 2026

...and much more.

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THREAT MODEL: CYBERSECURITY 🧑‍💻
for Apr. 14th, 2026
by independent journalist @violetblue

- Researcher rebukes #Microsoft disclosure process and drops unpatched #0day online

- The wild process of encrypting and decrypting biological material

- 30 #WordPress plugins were bought for six figures and then backdoored

- #Iran ’s hackers poke at US water/energy targets

- #France disavows US #BigTech data control and moves from Microsoft to #Linux

- #IBM to pay Trump admin $17M in punishment over its diversity initiatives

...and much more.

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THREAT MODEL: CYBERSECURITY 🧑‍💻
for Apr. 7th, 2026
by independent journalist @violetblue

- "CEO Said A Thing!" journalism

- The Medici grand ducal treasure is under cyberattack

- No one told #Netflix you can’t cheat at chess with a hacked buttplug

- #Hegseth reduces yearly #USArmy mandatory cybersecurity training to once every five years

- Trump to cut #CISA funding again

- More info on the #Axios supply chain breach

- Circumventing #Russia ’s #Telegram comms ban with a WiFi cat feeder

- Reconstructing how Audre Lorde’s "The Master's Tools" relates to #Enshittification

...and much more.

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THREAT MODEL: CYBERSECURITY 🧑‍💻
for Mar. 31st, 2026
by independent journalist @violetblue

- New #WhiteHouse app breaks international laws and violates app store policies

- Wild details on the #ISS ’s medical scare

- #Iran 's internet blackout enters day 32 today

- #OKCupid / #Match gets zero penalties for selling users’ biometric data to a facial recognition broker

- FBI’s Patel email hacked (twice in 2 years now)

- People are giving #AI control over their #sextoys

- Violet has a big announcement 📣

...and much more.

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THREAT MODEL: CYBERSECURITY 🧑‍💻
for Mar. 24th, 2026
by independent journalist @violetblue

- US regulator bans imports of new foreign-made routers

- Tracking #Iran 's extended communication blackout

- #Google Search is using AI to replace headlines

- Cyberattack on a car breathalyzer firm leaves drivers stuck

- The DJI Romo robovac had security so bad one man remotely accessed thousands of them

- Praise for the 49MB web page

- Updates on #Russia ’s expanding (intentional) internet blackout

- #DOGE plans to change US radiation dose rules

...and much more.

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THREAT MODEL: CYBERSECURITY 🧑‍💻
for Mar. 17th, 2026
by independent journalist @violetblue

- #Meta and the #HeritageFoundation are behind online age-check laws being pushed worldwide

- #Instagram drops end-to-end encrypted messaging

- #Iran hacked a multinational US company and remote-wiped most of its devices

- #Apple ’s Neo is not the computer for you

- British man charged with cybercrimes in Dubai for filming missile strikes

- #BuzzFeed nears bankruptcy after pivot to AI

...and much more.

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THREAT MODEL: CYBERSECURITY
for Mar. 10th, 2026
by independent journalist @violetblue

- New White House Cyber Strategy sounds a lot like the Iran “strategy”

- @defcon ’s new Almanack is here to drink milk and combat authoritarianism

- Misleading headline alert on all those Proton-FBI stories

- Russian state-sponsored hackers linked to ongoing @signalapp & #WhatsApp phishing scheme targeting gov't officials, military personnel, journalists

- The wild post-disaster #Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant computer rebuild

- @npr peels back #ICE ’s day-to-day use of surveillance data to terrify anyone they don’t like

- An interactive version of the famous #xkcd Dependency comic

...and much more.

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