Unfortunately, I have to say this again:

US election infrastructure isn't perfect and there's still work to do to make it more secure. But there is simply no credible evidence that the 2020 election outcome was altered through technical attacks, despite exhaustive scrutiny.

Shortly after the 2020 election, when these discredited claims were first raised, 58 of my colleagues and I issued this statement:

https://www.mattblaze.org/papers/election2020.pdf .

Nothing we've learned since then alters my assessment.

The Center for Internet Security will continue funding the MS-ISAC after DHS cut funding.
https://statescoop.com/ms-isac-funding-cuts-services-continue-2025/

Yikes. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/04/cyber-forensic-expert-in-2000-cases-faces-fbi-probe/

@wendynather @sawaba @zackwhittaker @lorenzofb @briankrebs @bittner @kimzetter Imagine how many reporters were in the Houthi PC Large Group.

"Graphite" software from Paragon, which has sold its high-end phone spyware to the U.S. government and holds itself out as more ethical than peers, has been found in the devices of Italian migrant rescuers close to the Pope, according to Citizen Lab and WhatsApp. Gift link: https://wapo.st/3Y2t8KK

Actually, the first autopen-type device was used by Thomas Jefferson in 1803, while the Sharpie wasn't invented until 1964. So there's a much better originalist argument for the autopen.

China’s Volt Typhoon Hackers Dwelled in US Electric Grid for 300 Days https://www.securityweek.com/chinas-volt-typhoon-hackers-dwelled-in-us-electric-grid-for-300-days/ #cybersecurity #infosec

Scoop from me at the Post: one of hackerdom’s biggest fallen heroes, Morgan Marquis-Boire, secretly co-founded a celebrated company recovering cryptocurrency. Gift: http://wapo.st/4kSoSaw

@evacide @mattblaze Sorry to hear this!

Europe is in talks with SES, Viasat, and others as it rushes to provide Ukraine with alternatives to Starlink, whose service became patchy near the frontline (Peggy Hollinger/Financial Times)

https://www.ft.com/content/80197b97-c9a0-4dd2-ba26-2a43116e9228
http://www.techmeme.com/250307/p13#a250307p13

Hats off to DataBreaches.net journalist @PogoWasRight for going public and publishing details about the legal demand they received from U.K. law firm Pinsent Masons, on behalf of the hacked health firm HCRG.

You can read more about the legal demand on DataBreaches.net.

https://databreaches.net/2025/03/05/hcrg-cares-lawyers-claimed-an-injunction-issued-in-a-private-hearing-required-us-to-remove-two-posts-we-didnt-comply/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/03/06/cia-nsa-doge-layoffs-firing/

Inside U.S. spy agencies, workers fear a cataclysmic Trump cull

@siguza Whoa are you saying Trump might actually be dangerous for the country? No way!

What if Trump is just a massive red team exercise

The stored energy in popsicle sticks triggered by a firecracker

After criticism, the Pentagon now says there is no order to stand down cyber operations vs. Russia. @DODResponse on X: "@SecDef has neither canceled nor delayed any cyber operations directed against malicious Russian targets and there has been no stand-down order whatsoever from that priority."

Gift link: US halts cyber operations vs Russia. https://wapo.st/4kjGtrI

Exclusive just up at The Post: The Justice Department told Congress in November that there were no disputes with the UK over enforcing the data-sharing Cloud Act, even though it knew Britain planned on demanding a back door from Apple. GIFT LINK. https://wapo.st/41C53f5

https://wapo.st/41C53f5 gift link: DNI Gabbard will fight UK’s backdoor order to Apple.

Updated with UK comment: Archived version, no hoops. https://archive.is/JNy6X