NEW: Texas hack may be first disruption of U.S. water system by Russia. Mandiant's John Hultquist: 'Is GRU behind these attacks?...Whoever is doing this is working out of the same clubhouse. It's too close for comfort.' wapo.st/4aSNeLq

Cloud CISO Perspectives blog for mid April '24 is up, covering:

- 20 major security announcements from Next ‘24
- Real secure enterprise browsing
- Gemini/AI for security
- IAM principal access boundaries
- What’s so spiffy about SPIFFE
- and more.....

cloud.google.com/blog/products/…

Supreme Court rules in favor of veteran who sued over GI Bill limits buff.ly/4aVBmsj

New War on the Rocks piece this week exploring talent management and culture in military cyber communities: warontherocks.com/2024/04/leader…

Today is #NationalPetDay ! Celebrate by taking your #beagle for a leisurely sniffari followed by unlimited belly rubs and ear rubs.

Ralph Puckett dies at 97; Army Ranger belatedly received Medal of Honor wapo.st/3TP3Uwv

Bill in Congress Would Force Action on U.S. Troops’ Blast Exposure nytimes.com/2024/04/09/us/… by David Philipps

Gary Grimmette, troubled Vietnam War veteran turned White House gardener, dies trib.al/jYJKQGN

I'm not sure we needed a study to tell us this. It's not as if you had a choice of which air to breathe while you were sleeping. armytimes.com/veterans/2024/…

''I got onto our little online forum, and I said, is anybody else having problems finding providers accepting Tricare?'

The replies came in a tidal wave.'

Important reporting from Quil Lawrence
npr.org/2024/04/03/124…

.Google teams up with DARPA & industry peers for its AI Cyber Challenge.

#GoogCloudNext #SecEcosystem #InformationSecurity #GenAI #AIOps
#CyberSecurity #SecOps

In 2023, we teamed up with Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) to track down 97 zero-day vulnerabilities.

Our findings: 61 hit end user platforms, 36 targeted enterprise tech.

Read the report! bit.ly/43Izpgr

#Cybersecurity #ZeroDayVulnerabilities #ThreatAnalysis

Lou Conter, last survivor of USS Arizona from Pearl Harbor attack dies at 102 ow.ly/jYeB105o7Nw

Steve Coll obtained secret recordings and never before released interrogations of Saddam Hussein to produce 'The Achilles Trap,' which ⁦Noreen Malone⁩ calls 'a more intimate picture of the dictator’s thinking ... than has been seen before.' nytimes.com/2024/02/26/boo…

6.5 long years of battling, my torturous TBI journey, and most importantly advocating for victims’ health care. Tonite is an important milestone. I also expect the backlash to be severe. Against those world class doctors, victims, USG whistleblowers-brave enough to come forward.

My weekend thoughts on the issues surfaced by the alleged interference of GEN Hamilton in the Army's battalion commander assessment program, with concluding advice for SECARMY and CSA.

open.substack.com/pub/douglasoll…

NEW: Preparing for a China war, the Marines are retooling how they’ll fight. A look at how a new formation aims to in the heart of the 'kill web,' enabling the Joint Force in the Pacific. wapo.st/3TTPhJI

NEW: A highly virulent bird flu first detected in dairy cows in Texas and Kansas this week has spread to additional herds, bringing the number of affected states to six and adding evidence the virus may be spreading cow-to-cow. My story. washingtonpost.com/health/2024/03…

Louis Gossett Jr., commanding actor of TV and film, dies at 87 wapo.st/3VB9BAM

'Recent Veterans Affairs Electronic Health Record rollout ‘most successful’ so far, but VA IG outlines recent problems' via Jory Heckman federalnewsnetwork.com/it-modernizati…