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Don't miss my latest CSO feature that examines how boards don't need more cyber metrics; they need risk signals so they can better understand the exposure, trajectory, and consequences of the threats their organizations face.
Thanks to Richard Bejtlich, Mike Hamilton, Wendy Nather, George Tsantes, and Bernard Brantley for their insights.

Boards don’t need cyber metrics — they need risk signals
Security teams have learned to measure activity. The harder task is turning those measurements into signals directors can use to govern risk.

Vibe Coding Has a Security Problem, and Shipping Code You Do Not Understand Is Not a Strategy
AI-assisted coding is speeding up software development, but it is also making it easier to ship insecure defaults, weak access controls, poisoned dependencies, and code nobody on the team can confidently defend.
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Vibe Coding Has a Security Problem, and Shipping Code You Do Not Understand Is Not a Strategy
AI-assisted coding is speeding up software development, but it is also making it easier to ship insecure defaults, weak access controls, poisoned dependencies, and code nobody on the team can confidently defend.

Apple says iPhone and iPad on iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 have become the first consumer devices NATO approved for use up to the "restricted" level of classified data (Elyse Betters Picaro/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-iphone-ipad-nato-classified-sec…

The iPhone in your pocket is now trusted for classified NATO data
NATO approved iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 devices for classified use up to the 'restricted' level, and that's a big deal. Here's why.

Morgen kommt das Fernsehen bzw. ist schon da. Kommt ihr auch? 9.30 / 10 Ihr #ostfildern #kemnat Bartholomauskirche
#fedikirche

The Feds keep saying "We did not" or "We will not" buy this or that empty warehouse for use as an ICE prison.
What they are hiding is that in order for a warehouse to be an ICE/CBP prison that the warehouse need not be "owned" by the Feds.
Rather the warehouse could be bought by a maga-friend, like Elon or Ellison etc and then leased to the government.
The Feds would not bey lying when they say they are not buying the warehouse. But they will …

ICE is quietly buying warehouses for its detention expansion
At least 20 communities with large warehouses across the U.S. have become stealth targets for Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s $45-billion expansion of detention centers. Communities are objecting to mass detentions and raising concerns that the facilities could strain water supplies and other services while reducing local tax revenue. In many cases, mayors, county commissioners, governors and members of Congress learned about ICE’s ambitions only after the agency bought or leased spac…

This is as good a time as any for a thought experiment.
You're in Nazi Germany. You know about the camps, you know what they do, you see the ash fall, you smell it. People who resist alone are killed, some are sent to the camps too. You're afraid to even talk to people about it for fear that they'll turn you in.
You think back to when the camps were being built. You had all the warning signs, but you didn't know how to interpret them. You could believe it would happen. You thought you'd have a chance to vote him out. You thought there might be another way. You thought maybe things would turn out differently if you just sat tight, kept your head down, kept yourself safe.
You see a family being dragged from their home. You know they will be killed. You want to fight, not just for them but for yourself. You opposed Hitler, and at any point you know you could be on the list... Even if you do nothing.
You wish you could rise up, shoot the SS, open the gates, fight it all. You know you aren't alone, but you don't know how to connect with the people who want the same thing.
Using the knowledge we have now, what should you have done in the preceding months and years to connect, to build a community that would open up all paths of resistance?
There were people who resisted. We know it wasn't enough.
Gun laws in Nazi Germany were very similar to US laws in that Nazis were largely free to own guns and everyone else was not. Unlike the US, where "others" have historically controlled using the fear that they might be randomly executed, Germany did codify it. Red flag laws were one more step in the US towards that codification, and there will be more.
When Nazis were taking away those guns, the social networks didn't exist to make resistance possible for most folks. But some Jews were able to resist.
It wasn't the guns that made the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising possible, though they definitely helped. The Warsaw Ghetto uprising was made possible by labor organizing in the precessing years.
If there were more uprisings like that, the Holocaust could have been stopped if not prevented. Social networks make resistance possible. Guns are only useful tools to resist authoritarianism *after* you build a community able to support that resistance, and they are only one of many tools made useful by that community.
Getting guns is easy, and not always necessary. Building community is hard. Guns won't keep you safe. Community will.
Single acts of resistance may slow the machine down, but to actually bring down a monster you need to be able to attack more than once. You need a society of resistance. If you are afraid now, build that. Talk to people while it's still safe to do so. Ask them where their red line is. Talk to neighbors. Figure out your network.
Take the steps you need now to keep your neighbors safe, to keep yourself safe.
#USPol

Poor dears… really takes it out of you, committing genocide. @… https://mastodon.neometropolis.net/@QudsNen/116470305710416707

Quds News Network (@QudsNen@mastodon.neometropolis.net)
Attached: 1 image Haaretz revealed surprising data indicating that more than 10 Israeli soldiers have died by suicide since the beginning of this year, with a notable and alarming rise in April alone, where 8 cases were recorded. According to the daily, Israeli soldiers are suffering from psychological distress due to long periods of military service and the ongoing war on multiple fronts. In addition, more than 85,000 soldiers are receiving psychological support. #Israel #Palestine #Gaza

»Souveränität in der Cloud:
Digitale Souveränität bedeutet für Unternehmen und Behörden Verfügungsgewalt über Daten, Kontrolle über Infrastruktur und Vorhersehbarkeit gegenüber rechtlichen Eingriffen.«
Kein neues Thema und mMn noch den wenigsten bewusst. Klar die Umstellung kann aufwändiger so wie teuerer sein und doch hatten sich die meisten aus Bequemlichkeit such nicht darum gekümmert.
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Souveränität in der Cloud
Digitale Souveränität bedeutet Verfügungsgewalt über Daten, Kontrolle über Infrastruktur und Vorhersehbarkeit gegenüber rechtlichen Eingriffen.

So this is good.
UK news giants form ‘NATO for news’ group to control AI scraping
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/uk-news-giants-form-nato-for-news-group-to-defend-against-ai/

UK news giants form 'NATO for news' group to control AI scraping
Five major UK news organisations have banded together in an attempt to develop shared AI licensing standards.