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Five for Friday: March 6, 2026 Information Security & Data Privacy News You May Have Missed During the Week! Articles from March 2-6, 2026.

The countdown to the weekend begins with Five for Friday! 🪩💃🕺

Read #InfoSec & #DataPrivacy items from March 2-6, 2026 like:

🔓🧐 Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester

🦄👻Even Unicorns Get Ghosted

Five for Friday: March 6, 2026
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Five for Friday: March 6, 2026 Information Security & Data Privacy News You May Have Missed During the Week! Articles from March 2-6, 2026.

The countdown to the weekend begins with Five for Friday! 🪩💃🕺

Read #InfoSec & #DataPrivacy items from March 2-6, 2026 like:

🔓🧐 Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester

🦄👻Even Unicorns Get Ghosted

Five for Friday: March 6, 2026
open.substack.com/pub/sherpain...

Articles like this continually reinforce for me that we need way WAY more women in tech.

AILA: Creation of Independent Immigration Court System More Important Than Ever AILA President Jeff Joseph and Executive Director Ben Johnson welcomed the newly introduced "Real Courts, Rule of Law Act of 2026" which would "lay a new foundation for the courts as an independent in...

AILA President Jeff Joseph & Executive Director Ben Johnson welcome the Real Courts, Rule of Law Act of 2026 which would "lay a new foundation for the courts as an independent institution that will no longer be controlled by the Executive Branch.” https://bit.ly/4b56szf

A Special episode of the Gate 15 Interview is out now! In this episode, Andy Jabbour speaks with experts from the Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC) community! Our podcast is available right now, go check it out!

#cybersecurity
@andyjabbour.bsky.social
gate15.global/the-gate-15-...

We regret to announce the postponement of this weekend’s event at the National Cryptologic Museum, “Scout Day.” Beginning Saturday March 7th, the museum will be temporarily closed until further notice. Please stay tuned for updates.

What's going on at the National Cryptologic Museum 🧐

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Alex got Marie Kondo’d on #LoveIsBlind 😅

Screenshot of ProPublica webpage titled “Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,500 of His Appointees,” accompanied by this blurb: “Use this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team. The documents disclose positions officials have held outside government, their assets and their debts, among other things.” A search bar prompts the user to search for a person or financial holding.

THREAD: We just released a tool that allows you to search billions of dollars in wealth, ties to the most powerful companies in the country, and details of the personal finances of President Trump and over 1,500 of his appointees.

Here’s how it works 1/

Florida wants its own CIA. That could lead to unchecked domestic surveillance | Seth Stern, Lauren Harper and Bobby Block A bill to create a state intelligence operation would allow scrutiny based on ‘opinions’ – and could prompt other states to follow

"If Florida enacts House Bill 945, it will create a national first – CIA-style structure at the state level that blurs the traditional line between state law enforcement and intelligence work." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Kill it with fire. Never ever ever.

Misquoting Orwell is the perfect end to her tenure

It’s Not Complicated The mainstream media failed the public during the genocide in Gaza. The Key's editor-in-chief shares her vision for what comes next.

Former LA Times managing editor @sarayasin.bsky.social launches The Key, a new publication about Palestine that will be "a home for journalists who have had their stories spiked in mainstream outlets."

Her opening essay is worth every second of your time: www.thekeymagazine.com/p/western-jo...

Again or is this the same one from the other day/week?

Iran warns people who dare defy internet blackout Iranian authorities were issuing warnings to people connecting to the internet in defiance of a communications blackout that had left the Islamic republic largely cut off from the outside world, witne...

Iranian authorities have threatened to arrest citizens who connect to the internet in defiance to a communications blackout imposed by the state.

Iranian police sent SMS warnings to all citizens earlier this week.

www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Exactly.

Florida wants its own CIA. That could lead to unchecked domestic surveillance | Seth Stern, Lauren Harper and Bobby Block A bill to create a state intelligence operation would allow scrutiny based on ‘opinions’ – and could prompt other states to follow

"If Florida enacts House Bill 945, it will create a national first – CIA-style structure at the state level that blurs the traditional line between state law enforcement and intelligence work." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

[WARNING: This is a bit graphic.]

A Marine Corps veteran protesting Trump’s War on Iran had his arm broken by Capitol Police and GOP Senator Tim Sheehy. It appears to be a compound fracture.

Florida wants its own CIA. That could lead to unchecked domestic surveillance | Seth Stern, Lauren Harper and Bobby Block A bill to create a state intelligence operation would allow scrutiny based on ‘opinions’ – and could prompt other states to follow

If the feds, with their institutional expertise and legal constraints, cannot consistently avoid abusing surveillance powers, why should we assume newly created state intelligence offices will do better?

Read more from FPF's @seth-stern.bsky.social and @laurenleharper.bsky.social:

Great crowd at Zero Trust World today. Thanks for everyone who came to my keynote and for all the great hallway conversations! 😃

Google feels the need for security speed, so will ship Chrome updates every two weeks Retains eight-weekly Extended Stable releases but warns fortnightly updates are the best way to stay safe Google will halve the time between releases of its Chrome browser to two weeks, across versions of the software for desktop operating systems, Android, and iOS.…

ICYMI: Google feels the need for security speed, so will ship Chrome updates every two weeks

Finally, some delightful breaking news.

massholes:

Notepad++ Supply Chain Attack & Chrysalis Backdoor by Umut Bayram from Picus Security (March 02, 2026) cybersec.picussecurity.com/s/notepad-su...

Council bill could allow Ancestry.com to host Philadelphia archives Philadelphia is a step closer to digitizing its rich collection of historical records, after a City Council committee on Tuesday advanced a bill to give the job to Ancestry.com.

I have mixed feelings about Ancestry dot com, but this could be an interesting #OSINT & #genealogy development.
www.audacy.com/kywnewsradio...

Council bill could allow Ancestry.com to host Philadelphia archives Philadelphia is a step closer to digitizing its rich collection of historical records, after a City Council committee on Tuesday advanced a bill to give the job to Ancestry.com.

I have mixed feelings about Ancestry dot com, but this could be an interesting #OSINT & #genealogy development.
www.audacy.com/kywnewsradio...

The first confirmed fatalities in Trump's illegal War on Iran:

Captain Cody A. Khork, 35, of Winter Haven, FA

Sergeant First Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42, of Bellevue, NE

Sergeant First Class Nicole M. Amor, 39, of White Bear Lake, MN

Sergeant Declan J. Coady, 20, of West Des Moines, IA

GitHub - icsadvprj/ICS-Advisory-Project: The ICS Advisory Project is an open-source project to provide CISA ICS Advisories data in Comma Separated Value (CSV) format to support vulnerability analysis ... The ICS Advisory Project is an open-source project to provide CISA ICS Advisories data in Comma Separated Value (CSV) format to support vulnerability analysis for the ICS/OT community. This is a co...

ICS[AP] updated CISA ICS Advisories Master File for 3/3/26 & the following year's CSVs:

CISA_ICS_ADV_2026_3_3.csv
CISA_ICS_ADV_2025_3_3_26.csv

Available @ ICS[AP] GitHub:
github.com/icsadvprj/IC...

#opensource
#vulnerabilitymanagement
#icssecurity

U.S. Opens Military Action in Ecuador Against ‘Terrorist Organizations’

We are officially doing too much. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u...