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@5cyberstories.bsky.social
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Sharing stories that reveal how #cybersecurity and digital #privacy relates to our non-digital lives. www.5cyberstories.com Written by @djbrug.bsky.social

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Five Cyber Stories @5cyberstories.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
New doodle inspired by @agreenberg.bsky.social, @mattburgess1.bsky.social, and Yulia Almazova’s reporting for @wired.com about the security vulnerabilities in some smart watches made for children www.wired.com/story/hacker...
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Five Cyber Stories @5cyberstories.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Latest doodle inspired by @haydenfield.bsky.social‘s great piece at @theverge.com about spiraling www.theverge.com/ai-artificia... #artificialintelligence
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Five Cyber Stories @5cyberstories.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The newsletter took a week off last weekend, but I still shared some great reads featuring #cybersecurity and #digitalprivacy! www.5cyberstories.com/out-of-offic...
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Out of office for summer
Howdy! Five Cyber Stories is off this week, but (as promised) I have several stories (including some gift links!) all about how cybersecurity affects everyone. Plus, they are some pretty great Sunday ...
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Five Cyber Stories @5cyberstories.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Late sharing but here's this week's newsletter: www.5cyberstories.com/why-stop-at-... #cybersecurity #privacy
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Why stop at just license plates?
Five Cyber Stories - June 14, 2026, Issue 012 Howdy! Welcome back for another edition of Five Cyber Stories. This week I'm talking about capturing all your signals, new AI models, and more. But firs...
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Maggie Miller @maggiemiller.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
House Homeland Security Committee Chair Andrew Garbarino just said at the Homeland Security and Defense Forum that he’s heard “there’s a nominee on the president’s desk” to lead CISA. Comes a week after DHS Secretary Mullin testified to Garbarino’s panel that a director nom would soon be announced.
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Five Cyber Stories @5cyberstories.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
This artwork was inspired by @nytimes.com 's reporting by Cade Metz on a new type of super worm malware described in a paper from researchers at the Univ. of Toronto. This story and the artwork were featured in this week's newsletter. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/t... #cybersecurity #infosec #artwork
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Five Cyber Stories @5cyberstories.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Also featured is reporting from @joannastern.bsky.social about the cottage industry disabling recording indicator lights on smart glasses. youtu.be/EaJSPeJmqis?...
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How People With Meta Glasses Can Secretly Record You
YouTube video by Joanna Stern
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Five Cyber Stories @5cyberstories.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Artwork from a story I shared in this week's newsletter featuring reporting from @wired.com 's @dmehro.bsky.social and @dell.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/meta-s...
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Five Cyber Stories @5cyberstories.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
In person cyberattack? Artwork inspired by @mattkapko.com 's reporting for @cyberscoop.bsky.social highlighting hackers use of social engineering to gain onsite access to victims' computers. cyberscoop.com/fbi-warning-... #cybersecurity #infosec
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Five Cyber Stories @5cyberstories.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
#Cybersecurity skills are all the rage in the job market these days with some recruiters even turning away potential clients. Check out this story from @nytimes.com 's @kateconger.com featured in this week's newsletter - www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24/t...
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Five Cyber Stories @5cyberstories.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
#Microsoft and a security researcher are engaged in a feud that has drawn criticism of the tech giant from across the #cybersecurity community. Check out the reporting from @lorenzofb.bsky.social and separately, @alexmartin.bsky.social techcrunch.com/2026/05/29/m..., therecord.media/microsoft-ca...
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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 02/06/2026
Anthropic expands Mythos access to 150 new orgs, up from the original 50 www.anthropic.com/news/expandi...
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Expanding Project Glasswing
We’re extending Project Glasswing to approximately 150 new organizations in more than fifteen countries
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Five Cyber Stories @5cyberstories.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
School buses joining the digital surveillance panopticon? Weird, but apparently that's a possibility according to reporting from @josephcox.bsky.social at @404media.co which I featured in this week's newsletter. www.404media.co/buspatrol-pu...
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Five Cyber Stories @5cyberstories.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Read my opinion piece on why we need a national, digital privacy law. Agree? Disagree? #surveillance #privacy www.5cyberstories.com/what-is-our-...
Smartphone surrounded by peering eyes - Five Cyber Stories artwork for "A (personal) plea for a standard of privacy (please)" op-ed by Danny Brugmann
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Five Cyber Stories @5cyberstories.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
One of the more interesting stories I featured in this week's newsletter was about exploitable baby monitors. Great reporting as always from @theverge.com 's @seanhollister.bsky.social www.theverge.com/tech/926487/...
Binary coded, red outline of a person ominously standing over a baby crib. Artwork for Five Cyber Stories newsletter featuring The Verge's Sean Hollister's reporting on exploitable baby monitors.
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Five Cyber Stories @5cyberstories.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Artwork from last week's newsletter which featured stories about #vibecoding - the good and bad. www.5cyberstories.com/trusting-cri...
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Five Cyber Stories @5cyberstories.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
After a brief hiatus last week, we're back with a new newsletter featuring stories about the Canvas Hack, vulnerable baby monitors, vibe coding, and more! Check it out! www.5cyberstories.com/trusting-cri...
"Don't TRUSt cyber-Criminal$" - Ransom note style artwork for Five Cyber Stories newsletter which highlights the story about hack of Instructure's Canvas hack and the assumed negotiations with the alleged culprits, Shinyhunters.
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Five Cyber Stories @5cyberstories.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Though @anthropic.com's Mythos model was released over a month ago, I've been surprised at how it has stayed in the conversation. The @nytimes.com featured it in two stories just yesterday. Included is the artwork for when I first wrote about Mythos last month.
Five Cyber Stories artwork featuring a yellow CAUTION sign showing a nuclear symbol highlighting the abbreviation "AI" above the phrase "CYBERSECURITY THREATS" to highlight the limited release of Anthropic's Mythos AI model.
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Five Cyber Stories @5cyberstories.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
I pressed pause on the newsletter this week due to some personal life craziness. Still, I made a list of my favorite cyber security reads from last week for anyone looking for some good reads. #cybersecurity www.5cyberstories.com/404-error-ne...
Five Cyber Stories - 404 ERROR - NEWSLETTER NOT FOUND
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Five Cyber Stories @5cyberstories.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
See the latest Five Cyber Stories newsletter! @404media.co 's @jasonkoebler.bsky.social's inspired my artwork and writing: "Flock contends that 'Safety is a fundamental right for every community.' I contend that privacy is also the right of every community." www.5cyberstories.com/flock-of-cam...
Eye containing the word "Flock" overlooking and illuminating the outline of a city. Artwork was originally featured in the Five Cyber Stories newsletter.
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Five Cyber Stories @5cyberstories.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Artwork inspired by @theverge.com's @seanhollister.bsky.social 's reporting on the FCC's "Conditional Approval" of certain routers - see it here in an older edition of Five Cyber Stories. #cybersecurity www.5cyberstories.com/our-ai-cyber...
A Head Scratcher - Five Cyber Stories artwork inspired the The Verge's Sean Hollister's reporting on the FCC's "Conditional Approval" of certain approved routers.
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Five Cyber Stories @5cyberstories.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
New, Five Cyber Stories newsletter up this week with my take on American defensive #cybersecurity, state-malware older than Stuxnet, more #Mythos, ICE's smart glasses, and an awful leak. www.5cyberstories.com/state-of-ame...
A view of American cybersecurity
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