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zackwhittaker.com
Politico is reporting that the breach at the Congressional Budget Office is "ongoing."

“Do NOT click on any links in emails from CBO. Do NOT share sensitive information with CBO colleagues over email, Microsoft Teams, or Zoom at this time,” the email to CBO staff reads.
Cybersecurity breach at Congressional Budget Office remains a live threat
Library of Congress employees were informed to take caution when emailing the office of the congressional scorekeeper.
www.politico.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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newsguy.bsky.social
NYT - Kash Patel's inexperience, his dismissals of top FBI officials and his shift of resources from thwarting spies and terrorism have heightened concerns among the other Five Eyes nations that the bureau is adrift. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/wo...
F.B.I. Director Is Said to Have Made a Pledge to Head of MI5, Then Broken It
The episode has contributed to concerns among intelligence allies that Kash Patel, brash and partisan, is also unpredictable and even unreliable.
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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lawrencehurley.bsky.social
A Reagan-appointed judge has quit the bench so he can speak out against assaults on the rule of law (he is a senior judge so it doesn’t create a vacancy):
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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newsguy.bsky.social
Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, reports Reuters. www.reuters.com/investigation...
Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show
Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.
www.reuters.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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leahmillis.bsky.social
I don’t enjoy being that person but here it is again: please share photo and story credit. Other than it being the right thing to do, it allows people to validate it and cross check for authenticity. We need to be spreading media literacy thru responsible info sharing. Otherwise nothing is believed.
November 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM
raphae.li
New: Washington Post latest to be identified as an Oracle EBS hacking victim
www.reuters.com/business/med...
Washington Post says it is among victims of cyber breach tied to Oracle software
November 6, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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jasonkoebler.bsky.social
New: The FBI filed a subpoena trying to unmask the person or people behind archive.is / archive.today, which have been running anonymously for 13 yrs. Site was widely used by GamerGate, and then to bypass paywalls but has become kind of core archiving infrastructure

www.404media.co/fbi-tries-to...
FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site
The FBI has subpoenaed the domain registrar of archive.today, demanding information about the owner.
www.404media.co
November 6, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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mford.bsky.social
A fun read about the UK’s planning/NIMBY woes.
How HS2 built a bridge to nowhere
A state-of-the-art road bridge has been built deep in the heart of rural Buckinghamshire. Designed to carry traffic over the HS2 railway, there's just one tiny problem - there's no actual road.
martinrobbins.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:01 AM
raphae.li
Hello Bluesky I’m out of my depth on a question to do with correspondent banks, how they work, and, particularly, how to determine which specific U.S. correspondent bank would’ve served which specific foreign bank at a certain period of time. Anyone have any ideas for good people to talk to?

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November 3, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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tylerplariviere.bsky.social Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere @tylerplariviere.bsky.social · 11d
Popped the drone over Promontory Point got some really lovely fall color this afternoon.
October 31, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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pwnallthethings.bsky.social
So this story is super duper interesting for a whole ton of reasons, but one big one is its a very rare glimpse into the private valuation of high-end exploits held by major defense contractors

bsky.app/profile/lega...
legal.reuters.com Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 12d
Peter Williams, A former executive with US defense contractor L3Harris has pleaded guilty to selling digital spy tools to a Russian broker, the Justice Department announced. Williams pleaded to two counts of theft of trade secrets reut.rs/49o7Q0I
October 29, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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annabower.bsky.social Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 21d
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here." Anna Bower Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about the Letitia James grand jury.
October 20, 2025 at 11:01 PM
raphae.li
It’s striking how many local governments, school boards, and small businesses post official statements to Facebook or Instagram and nowhere else, occasionally with restrictions that mean you have to have an account and log in to read them.
October 20, 2025 at 9:06 PM
raphae.li
May just have to reshare on a weekly basis:
bsky.app/profile/donm...
donmoyn.bsky.social Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 26d
Feels like this will be a useful meme for the next few years
Peacemaker looks at a mural embedding Hitler into American symbols
October 20, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Recently, the national security organs cracked a major US cyber attack case, mastered the iron evidence of the US National Security Agency's cyber attack invading the Chinese National Time Center, smashed the US's attempts to steal secrets and infiltrate and destroy, and fully guarded the "Beijing time" security. The National Timing Center is located in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, and undertakes the task of generating, maintaining and broadcasting "Beijing time", providing high-precision timing services for national communication, finance, electricity, transportation, surveying and mapping, national defense and other industries, and also providing important data support for calculating international standard time. The National Timing Center independently developed the world's leading time independent measurement system, and also built a major national science and technology infrastructure - high-precision ground-based timing system, and once the relevant facilities are damaged by network attack, it will affect the safe and stable operation of "Beijing time" A still from "HACKING TIME"
October 19, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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nahaltoosi.bsky.social
I’d like to attend a rodeo just so I can say, “This is my first rodeo.”
October 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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anniewaldman.bsky.social
Justice Brett Kavanaugh: “If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen...they promptly let the individual go."

The reality: Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.

A must read from the very talented @nicolefoy.bsky.social:
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 16, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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reuters.com
Hackers use some Canada and US airport PA systems to praise Hamas, criticize Trump reut.rs/4o57TD9
Hackers use some Canada and US airport PA systems to praise Hamas, criticize Trump
Hackers took over the public address systems on Tuesday at four airports, three in Canada and one in the United States, to broadcast messages praising Hamas and criticizing President Donald Trump, according to officials and news reports.
reut.rs
October 16, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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mckenziefunk.com
The reality of Kavanaugh stops: American citizens dragged, tackled, beaten, tased, and shot by immigration agents. Citizens held in the rain while in their underwear. A pregnant citizen's door blown off while Kristi Noem watched. Important story by @nicolefoy.bsky.social of @propublica.org
Screenshot of the article by Nicole Foy of ProPublica: "When the Supreme Court recently allowed immigration agents in the Los Angeles area to take race into consideration during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t be concerned. “If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States,” Kavanaugh wrote, “they promptly let the individual go.” But that is far from the reality many citizens have experienced. Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them. One of those women had already had the door of her home blown off while Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem watched. About two dozen Americans have said they were held for more than a day without being able to phone lawyers or loved ones."
October 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
Feels like this will be a useful meme for the next few years
Peacemaker looks at a mural embedding Hitler into American symbols
October 15, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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kimzetter.bsky.social
On CISA media call just now to discuss the F5 hack and source code breach, CISA staffer interrupted the discussion to blame the Democrats for the government shutdown and forcing workers to work without pay
October 15, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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campuscodi.risky.biz
More reports on the same company:

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

www.derstandard.at/story/310000...

www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/u...

www.lemonde.fr/pixels/artic...

irpimedia.irpi.eu/surveillance...
The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you
Inside the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.
www.motherjones.com
October 14, 2025 at 8:18 PM
raphae.li
The lead reporter on this story is Maggie Michael, who is among the most extraordinary journalists working today.
bradheath.bsky.social Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 27d
The Assad government carried out a two-year clandestine operation to truck thousands of bodies from one of Syria’s largest known mass graves to a secret location more than an hour away in the remote desert, a Reuters investigation has found.

www.reuters.com/world/middle...
October 14, 2025 at 6:35 PM
raphae.li
Powerful ick in this story from Emily Ngo and Jason Beeferman:
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
October 14, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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untersin.gr
La société de surveillance First Wap, basée en Indonésie, est restée pendant vingt ans sous les radars. Elle a pourtant vendu à des Etats autoritaires une solution de pistage qui a permis de géolocaliser journalistes, personnalités et cadres dirigeants. Enquête, avec @lighthousereports.com
First Wap, la discrète entreprise de cybersurveillance chargée de suivre à la trace journalistes, personnalités et cadres dirigeants
Peu connu du grand public, ce vétéran du secteur vend depuis plus de vingt ans une solution de géolocalisation, y compris à des régimes autoritaires. Parmi ses cibles : un journaliste enquêtant sur le...
www.lemonde.fr
October 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM