CYBERSECURITYIs DOGE a Cybersecurity Threat? Explaining the Dangers of Violating Protocols and Regulations That Protect Government Computer Systems

By Richard Forno

Teams from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are dropping into federal agencies with a practically unlimited mandate to reform the federal government in accordance with recent executive orders. As a 30-year cybersecurity veteran, I find the activities of DOGE thus far concerning. Its broad mandate across government, seemingly nonexistent oversight, and the apparent lack of operational competence of its employees have demonstrated that DOGE could create conditions that are ideal for cybersecurity or data privacy incidents that affect the entire nation.

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CHINA WATCHChinese Vessel Suspected of Severing Submarine Cables Still Anchored in Baltic Sea

By Henry Ridgwell

European allies in the Baltic region are investigating how two fiber-optic data cables were severed earlier this week, with suspicion falling on a Chinese vessel in the area. Germany has said the incident was clearly sabotage.

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CYBERSECURITYCyberForce Competition Challenges College Students to Use Cybersecurity Skills to Defend Their Wind Energy System

By Jenna V. Wray

College teams will work to outsmart a simulated attack on a U.S. wind energy plant. The CyberForce Competition offers students hands-on experience, igniting their passion for cybersecurity.

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ISRAEL’S PAGER ATTACKWhat We've Learned About the Hungarian, Bulgarian, and Norwegian Links To Hezbollah's Pagers

By Riin Aljas, Balint Szalai and RFE/RL's Bulgarian Service

A Bulgarian company with Norwegian links has surfaced in the supply chain of the pagers that detonated in Lebanon this week, killing 37 people and injuring several thousand others. The pagers, which were being used by members of Hezbollah, Iran’s most powerful proxy in the Middle East and designated as a terrorist organization by the United States, exploded simultaneously across Lebanon on September 17.

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CYBERSECURITYCybersecurity Suite Now on Duty Defending the Nation

By Michael Ellis Langley

For the better part of a decade, dozens of Sandia engineers, each working on pieces of a new national security tool alongside federal partners, have revolutionized cybersecurity forensics with the Thorium platform and tool suite.

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ARGUMENT: VULNERALE INFRASTRUCTUREIt Is Time to Act

There is, in a basic sense, nothing new to be said about the global computer outage of the week just pas, Dan Geer writes, so the time to act is now. “If we choose to act on what we know, then we also know that security policy and competition policy are henceforth conjoined. We cannot and will not have zero cascade failures if any tech is allowed to become universal, to become a monopoly in its sphere.”

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