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PCI Guru @jbhall56.bsky.social · 2m

According to Redmond, the incident began around 07:40 UTC, with delays and timeouts across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East when connecting to the Azure and Entra portals. www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microso...

Azure outage blocks access to Microsoft 365 services, admin portals

Microsoft is working to resolve an outage affecting its Azure Front Door content delivery network (CDN), which is preventing customers from accessing some Microsoft 365 services.

www.bleepingcomputer.com

PCI Guru @jbhall56.bsky.social · 4m

Microsoft is enabling threshold-based auto-archiving by default in Exchange Online to prevent email flow issues caused by mailboxes filling up faster than expected. www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microso...

Microsoft enables Exchange Online auto-archiving by default

Microsoft is enabling threshold-based auto-archiving by default in Exchange Online to prevent email flow issues caused by mailboxes filling up faster than expected.

www.bleepingcomputer.com

PCI Guru @jbhall56.bsky.social · 6m

Microsoft is working to resolve an ongoing outage preventing users from accessing Microsoft 365 services, including Microsoft Teams, Exchange Online, and the admin center. www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microso...

Microsoft 365 outage blocks access to Teams, Exchange Online

Microsoft is working to resolve an ongoing outage preventing users from accessing Microsoft 365 services, including Microsoft Teams, Exchange Online, and the admin center.

www.bleepingcomputer.com

PCI Guru @jbhall56.bsky.social · 8m

The campaign is the latest by BatShadow, one of a growing number of cybercrime groups operating out of Vietnam. www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks...

Vampire Bot Malware Sinks Fangs Into Job Hunters

The campaign is the latest by BatShadow, one of a growing number of cybercrime groups operating out of Vietnam.

www.darkreading.com

PCI Guru @jbhall56.bsky.social · 13m

A retired veteran named Lee Schmidt wanted to know how often Norfolk, Virginia’s 176 Flock Safety automated license-plate-reader cameras were tracking him. www.schneier.com/blog/archive...

Flok License Plate Surveillance - Schneier on Security

The company Flok is surveilling us as we drive: A retired veteran named Lee Schmidt wanted to know how often Norfolk, Virginia’s 176 Flock Safety automated license-plate-reader cameras were tracking h...

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PCI Guru @jbhall56.bsky.social · 13m

Deloitte will embed Anthropic's Claude across its workforce despite flaws in a report from a government client that its analysts produced work with the help of generative artificial intelligence, costing the company thousands of dollars. www.govinfosecurity.com/deloitte-bet...

Deloitte Bets Big on AI Despite Fake Citations in Report

Deloitte will embed Anthropic's Claude across its workforce despite flaws in a report from a government client that its analysts produced work with the help of

www.govinfosecurity.com

PCI Guru @jbhall56.bsky.social · 17m

Shifting cybersecurity duties to states without funding or guidance exposes gaps in election security and critical infrastructure defense. www.informationweek.com/cybersecurit...

Underfunded States Are Weakest Link in Cyber Defense

Shifting cybersecurity duties to states without funding or guidance exposes gaps in election security and critical infrastructure defense.

www.informationweek.com

PCI Guru @jbhall56.bsky.social · 23m

How security posture management for AI can protect against model poisoning, excessive agency, jailbreaking and other LLM risks. www.securityweek.com/will-ai-spm-...

Will AI-SPM Become the Standard Security Layer for Safe AI Adoption?

How AI security posture management (AI-SPM) can help organizations identify and reduce risks related to their use of AI, especially LLMs.

www.securityweek.com

PCI Guru @jbhall56.bsky.social · 27m

Patch now: A bug (CVE-2025-53967) in a third-party option for connecting Figma to agentic AI can lead to remote code execution (RCE). www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilit...

Figma MCP Server Opens Orgs to Agentic AI Compromise

A bug (CVE-2025-53967) in a popular Web design tool's option for talking to agentic AI allows command injection leading to remote code execution (RCE).

www.darkreading.com

PCI Guru @jbhall56.bsky.social · 37m

The Cisco 8223, announced on Wednesday, is a 51.2 Tbps router powered by its in-house Silicon One P200 ASIC. Combined with 800 Gbps coherent optics, Cisco says the platform can support spans up to 1,000 kilometers. www.theregister.com/2025/10/08/c...

Cisco’s router unites disparate datacenters into clusters

: With enough routers, Switchzilla says it can link bit barns 1,000 km apart and scale fabrics beyond 3 exabits per second

www.theregister.com

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PCI Guru @jbhall56.bsky.social · 39m

"Site visitors get injected content that was drive-by malware like fake Cloudflare verification," Sucuri researcher Puja Srivastava said in an analysis published last week. thehackernews.com/2025/10/hack...

Hackers Exploit WordPress Sites to Power Next-Gen ClickFix Phishing Attacks

Researchers expose new WordPress malware and ClickFix phishing kits exploiting cache smuggling for stealth attacks.

thehackernews.com

PCI Guru @jbhall56.bsky.social · 42m

The alliance aims to offer a cloud-native PostgreSQL database across hybrid environments, including IBM LinuxONE, Linux on Z, Power Systems, and Red Hat OpenShift. www.theregister.com/2025/10/08/i...

IBM and CockroachDB partner to bring PostgreSQL to mainframe

: Vendors promote bridge to modern architecture for legacy systems, but Db2 not going anywhere just yet

www.theregister.com

PCI Guru @jbhall56.bsky.social · 45m

Spyre, described by Big Blue as an accelerator purpose-built to handle the demands of AI processing, will be generally available from October 28 for IBM z17 and LinuxONE 5 systems, and in early December for Power11 servers. www.theregister.com/2025/10/08/i...

IBM's big iron to get Spyre AI accelerator upgrade

: Giving the mainframe customers what they want

www.theregister.com

PCI Guru @jbhall56.bsky.social · 49m

Hidden comments allowed full control over Copilot responses and leaked sensitive information and source code. www.securityweek.com/github-copil...

GitHub Copilot Chat Flaw Leaked Data From Private Repositories

A vulnerability in the GitHub Copilot Chat AI assistant led to sensitive data leakage and full control over Copilot’s responses.

www.securityweek.com

PCI Guru @jbhall56.bsky.social · 51m

On October 14, Microsoft will issue the final updates and security fixes, after which business customers will be forced to pay for extended security updates at $61 for the following 12 months. This doubles to $122 for year two and doubles again for year three. www.theregister.com/2025/10/09/b...

Millions of business PCs still on Windows 10 as D-Day nears

: It's the end of support as we know it and users feel fine

www.theregister.com

PCI Guru @jbhall56.bsky.social · 53m

Huang appeared on CNBC’s Squawk Box on Wednesday. When asked if he knew about the AMD deal before it was announced, he answered, “Not really.” techcrunch.com/2025/10/08/e...

Even after Stargate, Oracle, Nvidia, and AMD, OpenAI has more big deals coming soon, Sam Altman says | TechCrunch

By some estimates, OpenAI has this year inked $1 trillion worth of infrastructure deals. Altman says to expect even more.

techcrunch.com

PCI Guru @jbhall56.bsky.social · 55m

Artificial intelligence security acquisitions have skyrocketed in recent months as major security vendors look to establish dominance in protecting AI systems, applications and workflows. www.govinfosecurity.com/blogs/ai-sec...

AI Security Goes Mainstream as Vendors Spend Heavily on M&A

As autonomous AI grows, so does the security risk. Prompt injection, identity control and AI observability are at the center of a dozen recent acquisitions, as vendors including Cisco, CrowdStrike, Pa...

www.govinfosecurity.com

PCI Guru @jbhall56.bsky.social · 57m

No customer will ever see a payout. We can see the dynamic that’s emerged in cybersecurity and learn from it. shostack.org/blog/ai-insu...

Shostack + Friends Blog > AI Insurance Won't Save You

LLM Insurance is, and will remain, a great source of insurer profits.

shostack.org

PCI Guru @jbhall56.bsky.social · 59m

In early September, hackers stole the firewall configuration backup files stored using the MySonicWall service. www.securityweek.com/all-sonicwal...

All SonicWall Cloud Backup Users Had Firewall Configurations Stolen

SonicWall says all customers who used its cloud backup service to store firewall configuration files were impacted by a recent data breach.

www.securityweek.com

PCI Guru @jbhall56.bsky.social · 1h

A company spokesperson told Ars Technica that Logitech informed customers on September 29 that their Pop switches would soon become e-waste. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15

Logitech’s interest in the smart home has appeared to wane in recent years.

arstechnica.com

PCI Guru @jbhall56.bsky.social · 15h

Coming soon to a major metro near you. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act, sources say

A decision is not expected to be imminent, one source said, but debate within the administration has shifted recently to more deeply exploring how and when the act might be invoked.

www.nbcnews.com

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PCI Guru @jbhall56.bsky.social · 16h

Questions remain about how well Waymo's self-driving cars will handle ice and snow in colder climates. It's testing the technology in upstate New York and northern Michigan, and plans to expand to Washington, D.C., next year. www.axios.com/local/twin-c...

Why Waymo is hiring lobbyists in Minnesota

A change in law would be needed to launch its driverless robotaxis here.

www.axios.com

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 17h

Trump’s tariffs, that the American people pay for, have destroyed US soybean farmers. So Trump now wants the American people to bail those soybean farmers out. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.

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PCI Guru @jbhall56.bsky.social · 18h

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Andrea @hiphippie.bsky.social · 19h

Turns out my phone has been just…not accepting calls?
No filtering turned on
No call screening apps
It’s not giving me the voicemails people leave
Not showing missed calls

Soooo I guess good thing I’m JOB HUNTING WTF

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