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DC resident and cybersecurity writer, analyst, book author, publisher. https://metacurity.com/ https://cyberriskbook.com/ https://www.csoonline.com/profile/cynthia-brumfield/ https://infosec.exchange/@metacurity Send tips to Cynthia.507 via Signal.

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Cynthia Brumfield @metacurity.com · 1d

Metacurity is pleased to offer our free and premium subscribers a weekly digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush.

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North Korea's fake IT worker program is a goldmine, The Com group called Purgatory is creating swatting nightmares, How age verification laws change user behavior, What happens when the internet shuts...

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Daniel Cuthbert @dcuthbert.bsky.social · 4d

It’s not often I’m lost for words, but…

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 9h

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Cynthia Brumfield @metacurity.com · 12h

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMUmpc7y/
These are the people who hold themselves out to be Christian.

Kristi Noem denies access to church to hold communion. #donaldtrump #chicago #church

TikTok video by Johnny Palmadessa

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16h

The Trump administration wants us to believe that they are all-powerful forces who control everything and can be reined in by neither Congress nor the Supreme Court, but if anything goes wrong, it's Mastermind Chuck Schumer's fault.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

BRENNAN: CBS confirmed the Trump administration rescinded the layoffs of CDC scientists. Some were involved with the federal measles response. How does a mistake like this happen?

VANCE: The govt shutdown inevitably leads to some chaos. It happened because of Schumer

B: But this was a WH decision

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2d

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

ICE IS DISAPPEARING PEOPLE TO WORK CAMPS

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 15h

Border Patrol is terrorizing Gage Park this morning (video from Facebook, 55th & California reportedly 9:40am). SWRR reports agents are highly active and were also seen at the Pulaski orange line again: instagram.com/p/DPtwEY7DhTy

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 13h

"I give voice to the voiceless. When a middle-aged woman walks into Reformation, the salespeople barely blink. But if she wears a large mustard-yellow acrylic choker designed by a Scandinavian architect? She exists!"

I’m a Chunky Geometric Statement Necklace, and I’m Here to Solve the Woman Invisibility Problem

They say women disappear with age, but if that’s true, why do their necklaces keep getting bigger? Society shuns women with crow’s feet and crepey ...

buff.ly

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Cynthia Brumfield @metacurity.com · 13h

"it’s getting harder and harder to tell 'law enforcement' from the criminals they claim to protect us from."

Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 1d

ICE is an armed gang, and they’re only going to get worse. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Opinion | The Chicago raids send a worrying signal about the ideal ICE agents in Trump's America

The agency is on a hiring spree. But we know what that kind of breakneck expansion of the workforce can result in because we’ve seen it before.

www.msnbc.com

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 14h

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 15h

Boss, we’ve got a problem. Users don’t want this stuff! They keep wanting to turn it off, even when we keep turning it back on!

Boss: I have an idea

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 16h

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 14h

Since when Supreme Court justices go on Fox?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Justin Elliott @justinelliott.bsky.social · 14h

Here is our full story that Vance is dismissing, with primary source documents showing Trump cabinet members with multiple primary-residence mortgages

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 16h

Portland, OR, 2025

Protester in frog costume stands in front of tank (meme of Tiananmen Square “Tank Man”)

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17h

They cannot talk about the shutdown without lying.

There is no connection between troop payments and federal employee layoffs. Zero.

They are paying the troops with multiyear R&D allocations within DOD. This is also illegal by the way! But completely disconnected to the layoffs.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

WELKER: During the 2019 shutdown when Trump was president, no federal workers were laid off. Why are these firings necessary?

VANCE: Who do we care more about- federal bureaucrats or the troops getting the payment they need?

WELKER: But layoffs are a priority?

VANCE: They have forced us to choose

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 14h

This is great. Normally, with U.S. press, when a Republican lies, they go, "well, we'll have to leave it there because I want to move on."

In this case, however, Vance lies and Stephanopoulos is immediately, "into the trebuchet, my dude."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 16h

Sens. Schumer, Merkley, Murray, and Peters are calling for the resignation of OMB Director Russell Vought.

"By impounding billions of dollars … and aggressively pursuing the illegal use of pocket rescissions, Vought has done everything in his power to gut the federal government piece by piece."

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Cynthia Brumfield @metacurity.com · 14h

This kind of happened with some of the CISA employees fired in February - a court order reinstated them. But they were later asked to resign.
www.cbsnews.com/news/fired-c...

federalnewsnetwork.com/cybersecurit....

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Cynthia Brumfield @metacurity.com · 14h

quit not quite

Cynthia Brumfield @metacurity.com · 14h

Fascinating. I quite checking my personal Facebook page maybe seven years ago? And I stopped altogether for Metacurity a couple of years ago. Haven't been on Twitter for years, only check Instagram to track a few cherished people. So did not know about this weird scam action. Thanks for telling me!

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Cynthia Brumfield @metacurity.com · 14h

Did not know that. Thanks! Is it true for any public figure, or are cybersecurity leaders particularly afflicted?

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Outside of Portland's ICE facility last night, Kenny from South Park got married to a unicorn.

The betrothed Portland couple said they decided to get hitched on site to bring some joy and fun to a dark time.

"People can be fun loving people and still protest."

www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Cynthia Brumfield @metacurity.com · 14h

Anybody know why there would be so many fake Facebook profiles for William J. Hartman?

Be the Hero Our Country 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈 Needs. @marybethj.bsky.social · 15h

Did you know there are at least 70 facebook profiles for William J. Hartman with his photo and many more without?

Cynthia Brumfield @metacurity.com · 14h

OMG, you're right! I wonder what this means?