Coffee Break // Cyber News 008

I started my day today with a little hands-on work setting up a Raspberry Pi 5. A tiny prebuilt computer, I’ve hooked it up by the main wifi router with plans to turn it into a homeserver for some personal projects in the near future.

My coffee this morning is a pleasant shot of espresso. A Columbian grind, I think this may be favorite of the Nespresso varieties that I have tried.

Happy Friday, everyonel.

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In the news.

CISA, the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (not to be confused with CISA) expired at the end of this September, ending liability and anti-trust protections for companies sharing cyber threat data with each other.
Threat sharing is one of the main ways that companies and governmental organizations stay safe from hackers and data-breaches, and the sunsetting of this legislation potentially chills important communication between parties in the cybersecurity space.
The blocking of CISA’s reauthorization is largely due to Sen. Rand Paul’s efforts to include new language in the act. MSSP Alert has the full story.

In a follow-up to the Kido nursery hack story from Tuesday, Radiant, the hacker group behind the breach, have allegedly caved to public backlash.
Originally fixed to a bitcoin ransom equal to around $808,000, the hackers have apologized for their actions targeting children and their families and (if you believe them) deleted all data from the hack.

ICE continues to turn heads in the Cybersecurity world as it continues to adopt and use powerful tools like PenLink.
At the core of the ethics debate surrounding tools like this is the question of warrantless searches. So much of the data that LE scrapes to use in tools like this comes purchased from data brokers.
Is it ethical for the government to amass huge volumes of personal and geographical data without warrants in this way? Do you think that the law has not kept up with the technology?