Greg Otto

Greg Otto

@gregotto.bsky.social

@gregotto from twitter, now on bluesky. Editor-in-Chief at CyberScoop. Host of Safe Mode. Better with words than I am with code.

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Greg Otto
@gregotto.bsky.social

I see the news today is: Breathless coverage of an Anthropic bug bounty program AND Breathless coverage of agents getting around a government website paywall Begging for people (in my own profession!) to take a breath and learn how the stuff they cover actually works

Greg Otto
@gregotto.bsky.social

NEW from @timstarks.bsky.social: CISA published a strategy Monday that focuses on taking a leading role in cyber defense, prioritizing protection of critical infrastructure and building the ability to withstand attacks. cyberscoop.com/cisa-2030-cy...

cyberscoop.comCISA publishes strategy with eye on the next four yearsCISA unveils its "CISA 2030" strategy to fortify national cyber defense and critical infrastructure resilience amid emerging threats and agency budget scrutiny.
Greg Otto
@gregotto.bsky.social

Exclusive from @derekbjohnson.bsky.social : bipartisan bill would develop federal guidance for distillation attacks, convene industry on defensive cyber cyberscoop.com/bipartisan-b...

cyberscoop.comExclusive: bipartisan bill would develop federal guidance for distillation attacks, convene industry on defensive cyberBipartisan lawmakers push NIST to counter foreign AI distillation attacks, targeting campaigns by adversaries like China to siphon U.S. frontier models.
Greg Otto
@gregotto.bsky.social

Look there are very few journalists who possess the same level of tech knowledge as the turbo-brained people who work in the cybersecurity world But it doesn't help to self-deprecate to the point where we sound like utter morons. Know the beat. And if you wanna be a source, find those who do.

Greg Otto
@gregotto.bsky.social

I have been seeing all of these posts and decided to do it myself last night, since my TV has been slow AF because of the bloatware, and even this process described in the article is a bit of overkill techcrunch.com/2026/10/19/p...

techcrunch.comPeople are using AI to make their smart TVs dumb again | TechCrunchFed up with ads, tracking, and sluggish interfaces, some smart TV owners are turning to AI agents to strip away bloatware and take back control of their TVs.
Greg Otto
@gregotto.bsky.social

Obviously it depends on your individual set, but I found a GitHub repo, fed it to Gemini, said “how do I make this work on my TV” and it was all of a 20 min process. AI does have positive use cases!

Greg Otto
@gregotto.bsky.social

So, uh, interesting, this story got banned from r/serbia

Greg Otto@gregotto.bsky.social

NEW: Spyware has been detected on devices used by some of Serbia’s most prominent figures connected to the country’s political upheaval, according to researchers who announced their findings Monday. cyberscoop.com/pegasus-spyw...

cyberscoop.comSpyware found on devices belonging to prominent Serbian critics as elections loomResearchers detect NSO Group's Pegasus spyware targeting prominent Serbian figures, including a university rector and a prosecutor, ahead of upcoming elections.
Greg Otto
@gregotto.bsky.social

NEW: Spyware has been detected on devices used by some of Serbia’s most prominent figures connected to the country’s political upheaval, according to researchers who announced their findings Monday. cyberscoop.com/pegasus-spyw...

cyberscoop.comSpyware found on devices belonging to prominent Serbian critics as elections loomResearchers detect NSO Group's Pegasus spyware targeting prominent Serbian figures, including a university rector and a prosecutor, ahead of upcoming elections.
Greg Otto
@gregotto.bsky.social

A representative of CYPFER, the company that Ed Dubrovsky (guy arrested allegedly in connection with ShinyHunters) worked for from 2022-2025, emailed to dispute the role he had listed on his LinkedIn page in connection with the company

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What the actual Flock?! My comments on Flock’s ability to act as a CVE Numbering Authority for its vulnerabilities - building trust is going to take transparency & accuracy. @mattkapko.com writes for @cyberscoop.bsky.social cyberscoop.com/flock-cve-nu...

cyberscoop.comFlock can now issue CVEs for its own products. Should we trust it?Flock joined the CVE Program as a CNA, giving the company authority to assign IDs to vulnerabilities in its own surveillance cameras and license plate readers.
Greg Otto
@gregotto.bsky.social

Will get this out of the way now -- Me and my team are the *last* people who should be getting PR pitches for cybersecurity awareness month. We're aware! The audience is also aware! Bug the people/news outlets you believe are the least aware! Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!!!!!!!!!

Greg Otto
@gregotto.bsky.social

This truly is worth every second of your time.

Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social

A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED

Greg Otto
@gregotto.bsky.social

You're all free to just concentrate on NetScaler now: Kiteworks lifts shutdown advisory after ‘credible threat intelligence’ from federal authorities cyberscoop.com/kiteworks-li...

cyberscoop.comKiteworks lifts shutdown advisory after 'credible threat intelligence' from federal authoritiesKiteworks lifted a weekend precautionary shutdown advisory issued after federal authorities warned of an imminent cyber threat, patching a newly discovered vulnerability in its Advanced Forms tool.
Greg Otto
@gregotto.bsky.social

Reeeeeeeally straining to see why agents accessing public data sets is being described as “meddling” or “going rogue” but everyone’s lost the plot anyway so I’m gonna go crack a beer see yall Monday

Greg Otto
@gregotto.bsky.social

I have continued down the rabbit hole and found out about Roko's Basilisk and I gotta tell you, I am so, so tired of the dumbest people on Earth being propped up as intellectual savants

Greg Otto
@gregotto.bsky.social

I see this has been taken down but what sort of journo would I be if I didn’t Save to PDF

Greg Otto@gregotto.bsky.social

So this has consumed my afternoon and has sent me down a rabbit hole that makes me feel like i'm living at the end of sanity www.verysane.ai/p/ai-safety-...

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