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Israel claims a strike on Iran’s cyber warfare headquarters. The Trump administration releases a new national cyber strategy.  DHS shakes up its IT and cybersecurity leadership. Velvet Tempest uses ClickFix to drop loaders and RATs. Researchers uncover a Linux cryptocurrency clipboard hijacker. The DOJ brings a Ghanaian romance scammer to justice. Online advertising enables government tracking. Monday business breakdown. Our guest is Jon France, CISO from ISC2, sharing some insights and findings from their 2025 ISC2 Cybersecurity Workforce Study. An Apple II app gets audited by AI. 

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Joining us today is Jon France, CISO from ISC2, sharing some insights and findings from their 2025 ISC2 Cybersecurity Workforce Study. For further detail, you can also check out ISC2’s just released Women in Cybersecurity report.

Selected Reading

Iranian cyber warfare HQ allegedly hit by Israel | brief (SC Media)

Iran internet blackout reaches 6th day as rights groups call for end to digital shutdown (The Record)

The long-awaited Trump cyber strategy has arrived (CyberScoop)

DHS CISO, deputy CISO exit amid reported IT leadership overhaul (FedScoop)

Termite ransomware breaches linked to ClickFix CastleRAT attacks (Bleeping Computer)

ClipXDaemon: Autonomous X11 Clipboard Hijacker Delivered Via Bincrypter-Based Loader (Cyble)

Ghanaian Pleads Guilty to Role in $100m Romance Scam (Infosecurity Magazine)

The Government Uses Targeted Advertising to Track Your Location. Here's What We Need to Do. (Electronic Frontier Foundation)

Zurich Insurance Group intends to acquire UK cyber insurer Beazley for approximately $11 billion. (N2K Pro Business Briefing)

Microsoft Azure CTO says Claude found vulns in Apple II code (The Register)

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