It tells you, "DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) offers cybersecurity best practices for securing US networks."
CISA workforce cut by nearly one-third so far
The agency has lost roughly 1,000 staffers in the wake of the Trump administration’s workforce cuts.
Source: https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/cisa-departures-trump-workforce-purge/749796/
Gee it sure is good we have well funded competent national cybersecurity folks and didn't lay a bunch of them off
“All we have is their shoe size, sexual preference, race, age, gender, location, porn habits, political affiliations, and credit card numbers. They might as well be in the wind, nothing we could have done.”
Hm, let's not forget this gem:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_(spyware)
The government also wants you to believe that Hamas is running AI bot farms with fiber ethernet under all that ruble. But what they don't warn you about:
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/pro-israel-social-media-bot-falters-shares-pro-palestine-content
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-rise-of-digital-diplomacy-could-be-changing-israels-media-image/
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/01/20/netanyahus-media-poison-machine
Yeah all those big scary Iranian hackers and terrorists making the every day American live in fear
Look, a real life retcon!
Both hacktivists and Iranian government-affiliated actors
This false dichotomy is pure propaganda. There is probably no higher form of hacktivism than defending a population from an imperial genocide.
Gee! Who could have predicted that! /s
Personally, Iranians hacking a bunch of computer systems are probably the least of our worries now. Jim Salter posted an image that makes a good analogy. https://fosstodon.org/@jimsalter/114730060651034011
Lots of social engineering incoming, no doubt.
When they're talking about "poorly secured US networks", they're referring to Truth Social, right?
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