ResearchBuzz: FirehoseRFI: Another cyber attack takes down France’s online postal services. “The websites of La Poste and Banque Postale were again difficult to access on Thursday morning due to a cyber attack, according to a message on the site. The disruption comes just a few days after a similar attack that disrupted parcel tracking during the Christmas period.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/06/rfi-another-cyber-attack-takes-down-frances-online-postal-services/
Associated Press: Cyberattack disrupts France’s postal service and banking during Christmas rush. “With just three days to go before Christmas, a cyberattack knocked France’s national postal service offline Monday, blocking and delaying package deliveries and online payments. The timing was miserable for millions of people at the height of the Christmas season, as frazzled postal workers […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/26/associated-press-cyberattack-disrupts-frances-postal-service-and-banking-during-christmas-rush/
The Record: Georgia court filing organization warns of outages after ransomware allegations. “The organization responsible for managing real estate and civil court filings in Georgia has been knocked offline by a cyberattack that began on Friday. The Georgia Superior Court Clerks’ Cooperative Authority (GSCCCA) said it is experiencing a ‘credible and ongoing cybersecurity threat’ that forced […]
StateTech Magazine: Congress Revives State and Local Cyber Grants, But Funding Remains Unclear. “Congress has given the State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program a double reprieve this month, but state and local officials say they’re still waiting for real certainty — and real money. As part of the deal to end the 43-day federal government shutdown in early November, lawmakers temporarily […]
Denver Post: Cyberattack on CodeRED forces Douglas County Sheriff’s Office to seek new alert network. “The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office has stopped using its CodeRED system to alert residents of orders to evacuate or shelter in place or of other emergencies after learning of a cyberattack on the network and a data breach.”
The Register: US gov shutdown leaves IT projects hanging, security defenders a skeleton crew. “‘With the shutdown now underway, the immediate impact is clear: non-essential IT modernization projects have stalled, creating backlogs in areas such as infrastructure upgrades, cloud migrations, and system updates,’ federal government strategic advisor at GuidePoint Security Timothy Amerson told The […]
Techdirt: Senator Wyden Slams U.S. Judiciary For Incompetent, Nontransparent Cybersecurity Practices. “Senator Ron Wyden, one of a handful of U.S. Senators who operates in competent good faith on privacy and security, this week penned a letter to the Federal Judiciary effectively informing them their cybersecurity is a hot [blanking] mess with zero transparency.” F-bomb censored by me since I […]
Mashable: Nevada government offices close after massive ‘network security incident’. “Nevada closed all in-person services at state offices on Monday following the ‘network security incident,’ which was first detected early Sunday, according to a press statement from Gov. Joe Lombardo. While the in-person services were unavailable because of the outage, emergency services and 911 remained […]
New-to-me, from Micah Lee: TeleMessage Explorer: a new open source research tool. “I’ve spent the last week or two writing code to make sense of the massive hack of data from TeleMessage, the comically insecure company that makes a modified Signal app that Trump’s former national security advisor Mike Waltz was caught using. I’ve decided to publish my code as open source in the hopes that other […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/11/telemessage-explorer-a-new-open-source-research-tool-micah-lee/
StateTech Magazine: Exclusive: New CISA Data Highlights Agency’s Value to States, Localities. “More than 12,000 state, local, federal and tribal entities received security support from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency in 2023 and 2024, according to data shared exclusively with StateTech. This includes CISA’s Cyber Hygiene Services, which entail vulnerability and web […]