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@mrazeeq.bsky.social
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Privacy & InfoSec Lawyer, Adjunct Law Professor & Researcher. Hobbyist. Human. Posts are my opinions.

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mrazeeq.bsky.social @mrazeeq.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
First water utilities, now ports in #NorthCarolina. Attacks on critical infrastructure will continue to escalate over the next year. States have a limited window to build #wholeofstate defense capabilities. Join the #SC3 group to help. Dm me for info. lnkd.in/eF6A-jDK
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Craig Newmark @craignewmark.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Community security is national security — and corporate security, too. guest essay for the Cybersecurity Law Report, @Grace Menna explains how legal and compliance professionals can help protect community organizations. www.cslawreport.com/21472046/how... #CyberCivilDefense #Take9
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How the Whole-of-State Movement Is Protecting the Community Organizations the Private Sector Depends On
Some of the organizations most essential to daily economic life – rural hospitals, schools, municipalities, local utilities and small businesses – are also the least equipped to defend themselves agai...
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Institute for Security and Technology @istorg.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Global affairs have already been deeply unsettled in 2026, making #UnDisruptable27’s mission more urgent than ever. In the latest edition of the newsletter, listen to the new #HackthePlant, mark your calendars for Critical Effect 2026, and find out where to find the U27 team this year. 🛡️ Read more:
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UnDisruptable27 Newsletter: Save the Date for Critical Effect 2026
Happy New Year from UnDisruptable27! In the second issue of our newsletter, save the date for Critical Effect 2026, listen to the latest episode of Hack the Plan[e]t and other featured podcasts, and f...
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mrazeeq.bsky.social @mrazeeq.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Thanks to Carey for hosting us on @firewalldragons.bsky.social to talk about the #cyberresiliencecorps work to help critical orgs build #resilience! Listen here: podcast.firewallsdontstopdragons.com/2025/11/10/b... Get involved: www.cybervolunteers.us/en #cybercivildefense #communitydefense
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US Cyber Resilience Corps
Connecting community organizations with cybersecurity volunteer groups to strengthen America's cyber resilience.
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mrazeeq.bsky.social @mrazeeq.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
My @cltcberkeley.bsky.social report is live! It gives recommendations on ways IT and security service providers (ITSSPs) can help improve the cyber resilience of under-resourced organizations. Read the report here: live-cltc.pantheon.berkeley.edu/publication/... #cybercivildefense #infosec
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A Path to Long-Term Cyber Resilience for Under-Resourced Organizations - CLTC
Across the United States, state, local, tribal, and territorial governments (“SLTTs”), small- and medium-sized businesses (“SMBs”), and nonprofits are frequently targeted in cyber attacks, leading to ...
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Craig Newmark @craignewmark.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
How can we protect our critical infrastructure from cyber attacks? IST_org’s joshcorman sat down with theverge to talk #UnDisruptable27 and the consequences of hybrid attacks on our communities: www.theverge.com/cyber-securi...
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How vulnerable is critical infrastructure to cyberattack in the US?
An expert explains why he’s especially worried about water and healthcare.
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Craig Newmark @craignewmark.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Keep your texts private, use end-to-end encryption apps like Signal. Info on e2ee and more at pausetake9.org/protect-your... #Take9 #CyberCivilDefense @pausetake9
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Craig Newmark @craignewmark.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
The US Grid Attack Looming on the Horizon: "A major cyberattack on the US electrical grid has long worried security experts. Such an attack wouldn’t be easy. But if an adversary pulled it off ..." #take9 #CyberCivilDefense www.wired.com/story/youre-...
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The US Grid Attack Looming on the Horizon
A major cyberattack on the US electrical grid has long worried security experts. Such an attack wouldn’t be easy. But if an adversary pulled it off, it’d be lights out in more ways than one.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 19/05/2025
New Orleans police used secret network of 200 facial recognition cameras to scan people on public streets and ping nearby cops. The "technology nightmare scenario that we have been worried about" www.washingtonpost.com/business/202... @douglasmac.bsky.social @aaronschaffer.com
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Police secretly monitored New Orleans with facial recognition cameras
Following records requests from The Post, officials paused the first known, widespread live facial recognition program used by police in the United States.
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mrazeeq.bsky.social @mrazeeq.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Wrapped up #IAPP25. It’s always great to hear from regulator and learn from and connect with friends and #privacy and #infosec pros.
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mrazeeq.bsky.social @mrazeeq.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Glad to have met and learned from so many cybersecurity professionals from around the world at the Cybersecurity Law & Policy Scholar’s Conference and can’t wait to see the incredible work and scholarship that will come from it. #clpsc2025 #cybersecurity #infosec
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UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity @cltcberkeley.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Hackers are targeting more than just your bank accounts and sensitive information - they are looking at your water systems as well. Kudos to Waterbury, VT for joining @defcon.bsky.social Franklin to bolster their water system cybersecurity! 💧​​🔒​#CyberCivilDefense www.wcax.com/2025/02/18/w...
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Waterbury joins cybersecurity initiative to protect utilities
Hackers are targeting more than just your bank accounts and sensitive information.
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mrazeeq.bsky.social @mrazeeq.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Glad I made it to the inaugural CYBERLAWCON and looking forward to it becoming a regular fixture! #cybersecurity #cyberlawcon
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mrazeeq.bsky.social @mrazeeq.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Finished the #zeroday series, and setting aside qualms about accuracy, it was entertaining.
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mrazeeq.bsky.social @mrazeeq.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
This is like the twilight zone… www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...
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UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity @cltcberkeley.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
📢​ Registration is officially OPEN for the third annual Cyber Civil Defense Summit! Join us on June 11th at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington D.C. for this one-of-a-kind gathering of cyber defenders, academics, and policymakers. cybercivildefensesummit.org
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UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity @cltcberkeley.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
We co-hosted our first Plenary Session for the Cyber Resilience Corps with @cyberpeaceinst.bsky.social focused on uniting incident response volunteers! Read our 9 key takeaways and stay up to date here: cltc.berkeley.edu/2025/02/11/c...
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Cyber Resilience Corps Plenary Session #1: Exploring Reactive Intervention Systems in Incident Response for Community Organizations - CLTC UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity
On January 22, 2025, the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC) and the CyberPeace Institute hosted the first of three plenary sessions to launch the Cyber Resilience Corps, a…
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mrazeeq.bsky.social @mrazeeq.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Bruce Schneier’s article about the hacking America without the paywall on his blog. Well worth a read. www.schneier.com/essays/archi...
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DOGE Is Hacking America - Schneier on Security
In the span of just weeks, the US government has experienced what may be the most consequential security breach in its history—not through a sophisticated cyberattack or an act of foreign espionage, b...
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Craig Newmark @craignewmark.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
We’re In for a Rude Awakening on Cybersecurity www.city-journal.org/article/were...
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We’re In for a Rude Awakening on Cybersecurity
It’s a crisis that almost no one is talking about. The Chinese Communist Party is now the world’s preeminent practitioner of cyber warfare. Once notoriously loud and clumsy, the CCP’s hackers have bec...
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404 Media @404media.co · 10/02/2025
Microsoft study finds AI makes human cognition “atrophied and unprepared” 🔗 www.404media.co/microsoft-st...
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Craig Newmark @craignewmark.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Towns like Waterbury, VT are joining the #cybercivildefense by signing onto the DefConFranklin cyber volunteer program! WaterburyRound covered one of the first efforts nationwide aimed at shoring up the cyber posture of water and wastewater systems. www.waterburyroundabout.org/news-archive...
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Waterbury joins program to defend water systems from cyber attacks — Waterbury Roundabout
Waterbury has signed on to be one of the first municipalities in the country to participate — at no cost — in a program to bolster the cybersecurity of its water and wastewater systems to defend again...
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
OpenAI shocked and appalled that an AI company would steal intellectual property www.404media.co/openai-furio...
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OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Us
OpenAI shocked that an AI company would train on someone else's data without permission or compensation.
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Phil Reitinger @philr.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
This is an amazing event every year. Please save the date and attend come June! @craignewmark.bsky.social
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mrazeeq.bsky.social @mrazeeq.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Is anyone in the #Infosec community at a MSP, MSSP or similar org interested in contributing to public interest #cybersecurity research as part of @cltcberkeley.bsky.social Cyber Resilience Corps exploring how those orgs can augment volunteer cyber services? DM me. cltc.berkeley.edu/program/cybe...
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Cyber Resilience Corps - CLTC
What if community volunteers could protect our most under-resourced organizations? Community Organizations Face Rising Cyber Threats Public-interest community organizations—like nonprofits, rural hosp...
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mrazeeq.bsky.social @mrazeeq.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Great read from @kimzetter.bsky.social on how drone sightings in NJ/NY turned into a scare about nuclear material. www.zetter-zeroday.com/anatomy-of-a...
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Anatomy of a Nuclear Scare
How fake radiation readings in New York and New Jersey, coupled with a mysterious drone swarm, fueled a nuclear scare and became a harbinger for things to come The ongoing mystery around a New Jersey...
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
we wrote about magic links and why we don’t want your password. we know this can be annoying in some circumstances/edge cases, but there’s no good way for us to create a password login system without putting people at risk: www.404media.co/we-dont-want...
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We Don’t Want Your Password
Some people don't love our magic link logins. But the best way for us to protect your password is to never ask for it.
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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 26/12/2024
For the past few holiday seasons, @carlypage.bsky.social and I have looked back at the badly handled data breaches of the year in the hope — maybe! — companies would learn from the mistakes from yesteryear. Nope! Here's our list of security shitshows for 2024. techcrunch.com/2024/12/26/b...
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These were the badly handled data breaches of 2024 | TechCrunch
Blaming victims, months of silence, and suing security researchers all featured in cybersecurity in 2024.
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mrazeeq.bsky.social @mrazeeq.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Wishing everyone happy holidays!
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Dr Ravi Nayyar @ravirockks.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
This looks an excellent resource, potentially a model for us in the developed world and even in our infrastructural/cyber diplomacy in the Global South.
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Playbook for Strengthening Cybersecurity in Federal Grant Programs for Critical Infrastructure | CISA
This Playbook assists grant-making agencies to incorporate cybersecurity into their grant programs, and to enable grant-recipients to build cyber resilience into their grant-funded infrastructure
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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
1️⃣ ❗ EU Data Protection Regulators’ Opinion about training AI. This document reviews GDPR’s role in AI model training & deployment. www.edpb.europa.eu/system/files...
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mrazeeq.bsky.social @mrazeeq.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Hot off the press! A new draft National Incident Response Plan was published. Analysis to come. www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/us-cybe...
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US Unveils New National Cyber Incident Response Plan
The draft plan is designed to help businesses understand how the government will support them during a cyber incident
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mrazeeq.bsky.social @mrazeeq.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
@cltcberkeley.bsky.social's #CallForPapers in Public Interest Cybersecurity is open for empirical research that explores topics contributing to cyber defense of under-resourced organizations! App closes on 2/3/25 at 11:59 PM PT. Share and submit! #cybercivildefense cltc.berkeley.edu/2024/12/09/c...
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Craig Newmark @craignewmark.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
#CyberCivilDefense includes helping critical infrastructure take a hard punch and get back up Project Franklin offers cyber volunteer assistance, starting with six water systems! Successful #CyberCivilDefense includes cyber volunteerism to protect the country: www.theregister.com/2024/11/24/w...
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Volunteer DEF CON hackers get ready to secure US water
Six sites targeted for security clean-up, just 49,994 to go
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mrazeeq.bsky.social @mrazeeq.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Read below to learn about the Cyber Resilience Corps (cltc.berkeley.edu/program/cybe...) and how to get involved. I'm looking forward to collaborating this group! Huge thanks to @craignewmark.bsky.social, @cltcberkeley.bsky.social, CyberPeace Institute, CISA and others! #cybercivildefense
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Cyber Resilience Corps - CLTC
What if community volunteers could protect our most under-resourced organizations? Community Organizations Face Rising Cyber Threats Public-interest community organizations—like nonprofits, rural hosp...
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mrazeeq.bsky.social @mrazeeq.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Professional liability insurance for CISOs (and equivalents) seems overdue. cyberscoop.com/ciso-liabili...
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CISOs can now obtain professional liability insurance
New Jersey-based Crum & Forster recently unveiled a policy specifically designed to shield CISOs from personal liability.
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Craig Newmark @craignewmark.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
(please share!) #CyberMonday is prime time for hackers. Don’t forget to #Take9. Learn more at PauseTake9.org. #CyberCivilDefense
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mrazeeq.bsky.social @mrazeeq.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
This one hits close to home. patch.com/new-jersey/h...
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Hoboken City Hall Gets Hacked With Ransomware, They Say
The city of Hoboken said it's a victim of a "cyberattack." Some services are now closed. Find out more here.
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mrazeeq.bsky.social @mrazeeq.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
@districtcon.bsky.social speakers are up, and it looks promising. www.districtcon.org/speakers
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Speakers — DistrictCon
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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
UK minister warns that Russia may increase cyberattacks on the UK. The minister spreads fear about cyberattacks turning off electricity and highlights largely symbolic hacktivist activities with no impact, perhaps except propaganda. www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
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Putin ready to cripple Britain with cyber attacks, minister warns
Electronic strike by Russians against UK infrastructure could ‘turn out the lights for millions’
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mrazeeq.bsky.social @mrazeeq.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I did it! I joined the group moving to #bluesky and left #Mastodon. Let’s see how this goes.
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