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No Help and Few Options for Travelers Stranded by Mideast Conflict

One woman who called the State Department helpline looking for help said they told her to "stop ranting and raving" and hung up on her.

Another woman said they asked her how to spell Oman.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/t...

Senators criticize agencies over dual counter-drone incidents in Texas after briefing from officials Senators from both parties criticized the Pentagon, FAA and CBP for inadequately coordinating the employment of counter-drone systems.

A senior defense official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told DefenseScoop Wednesday that the Pentagon’s counter-drone entity — known as Joint Interagency Task Force 401 — will conduct a high-energy counter-UAS laser test with the FAA this weekend. defensescoop.com/2026/03/04/s...

Trump’s CISA nominee said he left Coast Guard to address GOP hold Sean Plankey confirmed the intent to Nextgov/FCW and said he’s “prepared to lead the nation’s cyber defense agency to protect the federal civilian networks and our nation’s critical infrastructure fro...

EXCLUSIVE: CISA director nominee Sean Plankey told stakeholders he left Coast Guard to show Sen. Rick Scott he’s no longer involved in shipbuilding contract work and to stave off another hold on his confirmation. Plankey confirmed this to Nextgov/FCW:
www.nextgov.com/people/2026/...

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Graph from NetBlocks showing network connectivity in Iran from February 24, 2026, to March 5, 2026. The y-axis represents normalized connectivity, ranging from 0% to 100%, and the x-axis represents the dates. The green line representing Iran's connectivity normal most of the time period, with a sharp drop on the morning of February 28. The drop in connectivity aligns with nation-scale internet blackout imposed during joint military strikes by the US and Israel. The minimum and current connectivity levels are indicated as 1% and 1%, respectively. The chart has a dark background with a red horizontal arrow labeled 'SHUTDOWN', indicates the period of disruption and includes the NetBlocks logo in the lower left corner.

⚠️ Update: #Iran's internet blackout has now exceeded 120 hours with connectivity still flatlining around 1% of ordinary levels.

Meanwhile, an increasingly Orwellian environment is emerging as telcos threaten users who try to connect to the global internet with legal action.

Cisco flags more SD-WAN flaws as actively exploited in attacks ​Cisco has flagged two more Catalyst SD-WAN Manager security flaws as actively exploited in the wild, urging administrators to upgrade vulnerable devices.

​Cisco has flagged two more Catalyst SD-WAN Manager security flaws as actively exploited in the wild, urging administrators to upgrade vulnerable devices.

How Vulnerable Are Computers to an 80-Year-Old Spy Technique? Congress Wants Answers A pair of US lawmakers are calling for an investigation into how easily spies can steal information based on devices’ electromagnetic and acoustic leaks—a spying trick the NSA once codenamed TEMPEST.

Senator Ron Wyden and Rep. Shontel Brown are calling for an investigation into the vulnerability of modern computers to what the NSA calls TEMPEST: spy techniques that pick up devices' accidental electromagnetic/radio/acoustic emissions to learn their secrets. www.wired.com/story/how-vu...

さよならVGA端子　パナソニックも「レッツノート」で廃止 - 日本経済新聞 パナソニックホールディングス（HD）傘下のパナソニックコネクトは27日、6月から順次発売するノートパソコン「レッツノート」の新モデルを発表した。映像出力用の「VGA」端子を初めて廃止する。音声も転送できる規格「HDMI」に押されて利用者が減っていた。他のパソコン大手はすでに廃止に動いており、約40年の歴史に事実上幕が下りることになりそうだ。レッツノートの新モデルは急速充電のしやすさなどのほか、

Panasonic is removing the VGA port from new models of the "Let's Note" series of business notebook PCs in favor of HDMI, putting an end to the approximately 40-year-old video connector.

(The Let's Note series is only sold in Japan.)

www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZ...

Trump wants Iranians to ‘take back their country' from the regime. Can they? To succeed in overthrowing the Iranian regime, an uprising would likely require a unifying leader, an effective organization, and the support of whatever remains of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

To succeed in overthrowing the Iranian regime, an uprising would likely require a unifying leader, an effective organization, and the support of whatever remains of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, writes Alan Pino.

Bitwarden adds support for passkey login on Windows 11 Bitwarden announced support for logging into Windows 11 devices using passkeys stored in the manager's vault, enabling phishing-resistant authentication.

Bitwarden announced support for logging into Windows 11 devices using passkeys stored in the manager's vault, enabling phishing-resistant authentication.

I googled “Weather” and instead of the weather widget, Google gave me an AI summary of a week old weather report from an unknown location in Alabama.

YouTube video by FedScoop Commercial data centers emerge as targets in modern warfare after drones hit 3 AWS facilities

AWS is grappling with widespread service disruptions this week after drone strikes severely damaged three of the cloud provider’s data centers in the Middle East during a surge of intense military actions in the region. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GAb... | defensescoop.com/2026/03/03/c...

Wake up, babe, new commercial for Linux just dropped

A Possible US Government iPhone-Hacking Toolkit Is Now in the Hands of Foreign Spies and Criminals A highly sophisticated set of iPhone hijacking techniques has likely infected tens of thousands of phones or more. Clues suggest it was originally built for the US government.

A full iOS exploitation toolkit, "Coruna," has been found in the wild, hacking iPhones that visited infected websites, used by Russian spies targeting Ukrainians and thieves targeting Chinese crypto holders. And it may have been originally created for the US government. www.wired.com/story/coruna...

The FBI Is Using AI to Hack Targets AI is a “game changer” for what the FBI calls remote access operations, an FBI official said in response to a 404 Media question on Tuesday.

New from 404 Media: the FBI is using AI to hack targets. FBI official was talking about "remote access operations," FBI's term for hacking. FBI said it's a "game changer". The comments were unusually candid about FBI's very secretive hacking operations. www.404media.co/the-fbi-is-u...

100+ Complaints From Troops Over 'Divine Plan' Rhetoric Service members allege commanders are framing Iran conflict as biblically ordained battle

Well this is disturbing. I for one am not in favor of Armageddon.

I'm reading a bunch of Coruna reports after dinner because I am a cool person who knows how to party. Of particular interest: not only does Coruna not work against iOS in lockdown mode, but if it even detects lockdown mode running, it bails. This is why I talk about lockdown mode so damn much.

“Bombs will fall Everywhere”: The American, Israeli and Iranian Weapons Being Deployed in Middle East - bellingcat Bellingcat has been monitoring strikes across the Middle East and has identified a wide variety of weapons that have been used in the conflict so far, including missiles and drones.

Israel used 2,000+ bombs in the first 30 hours of the Iran war; the US struck 1,000+ targets in the first 24 hours. Iran responded with at least 390 missiles and 830 drones in the first two days. Bellingcat has tracked the munitions used by all sides so far: www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

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SANS Stormcast Wednesday, March 4th, 2026: CrushFTP Brute Force; Android Patches 0-Day; 0Auth Phishing Abuse
https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9834

Well we already had 2 regime changes in two months, so we need a third for March, right?

She Came Out of the Bathroom Naked, Employee Says Bank details, sex and naked people who seem unaware they are being recorded. Behind Meta’s new smart glasses lies a hidden workforce, uneasy about peering into the most intimate parts of other people’...

The data from your Meta Ray Bans is used to train Meta's AI, which most people don't understand means that humans are looking at the most intimate details of their lives. www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/met...

-Google patches Android zero-day
-New Silver Dragon APT
-SloppyLemming targets Bangladesh, Pakistan
-New MythicLikho, APT28, UAC0252 campaigns
-Malware reports on CyberStrikeAI, AuraStealer
-TPMS car sensors can be tracked
-PerplexedBrowser attack
-Felix Lindner (FX) has passed
-BSides London videos

Graph from NetBlocks showing network connectivity in Iran from February 24, 2026, to March 4, 2026. The y-axis represents normalized connectivity, ranging from 0% to 100%, and the x-axis represents the dates. The green line representing Iran's connectivity normal most of the time period, with a sharp drop on the morning of February 28. The drop in connectivity aligns with nation-scale internet blackout imposed during joint military strikes by the US and Israel. The minimum and current connectivity levels are indicated as 1% and 1%, respectively. The chart has a dark background with a red horizontal arrow labeled 'SHUTDOWN', indicates the period of disruption and includes the NetBlocks logo in the lower left corner.

⚠️ Update: #Iran has now been offline for 100 hours. Metrics show internet connectivity flatlining at 1% of ordinary levels as the regional conflict escalates.

The regime-imposed blackout is the second this year and follows the shutdown in January when thousands were killed.

Warnings to citizens to evacuate 3 days into this war, when airspace is closed, is a clear sign of ZERO strategy and planning by the Trump admin.

Now Americans have limited options to evacuate at an extremely dangerous moment with no government assistance. This admin is failing its citizens.

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Ep 171: Melody Fraud.

Your Spotify Account Might Be Laundering Dirty Money!

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Google has discovered a new iOS exploit kit containing five full iOS exploit chains and a total of 23 exploits

It tracked it to a surveillance vendor, which sold it to both Russian and Chinese customers

cloud.google.com/blog/topics/...

LexisNexis confirms data breach as hackers leak stolen files American data analytics company LexisNexis Legal & Professional has confirmed to BleepingComputer that hackers breached its servers and accessed some customer and business information.

American data analytics company LexisNexis Legal & Professional has confirmed to BleepingComputer that hackers breached its servers and accessed some customer and business information.

Ex-NSA leader, OpenAI board member calls out Anthropic-Pentagon fight "This is not a good space for our nation," Gen. Paul Nakasone said at a conference in the Bay Area.

Gen. Nakasone, former head of the NSA & an OpenAI board member, called out the Pentagon's move to designate Anthropic as a "supply chain risk" at a conference in Sausalito last night.

"This is not a good space for our nation."

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