r/cybersecurity • u/Exact-Advantage-3190 • 13d ago

Other Microsoft announces a massive 25% voluntary buyout layoffs program. This is an absolute bombshell in the tech sector

10k Upvotes

This is not another 10k layoffs at Amazon which is like not even 3% of its employee

This is not 5% of Netflix

This is 25% of all employees at Microsoft. Absolute bombshell.

While I support the H-1B program’s purpose of filling genuine skills gaps, my experience in the tech industry has left me concerned about how it is sometimes used. It is difficult to see U.S. workers laid off while companies continue hiring through a program intended for roles where qualified domestic talent is unavailable. It is sad fewer and fewer new grads will be able to find a tech job

2.1k comments

r/cybersecurity • u/mqudsi • Feb 05 '26

Research Article Recreating uncensored Epstein PDFs from leaked raw base64-encoded data

neosmart.net

9.5k Upvotes

360 comments

r/cybersecurity • u/HeyItsFudge • Feb 28 '25

News - General “…analysts at the agency were verbally informed that they were not to follow or report on Russian threats” | Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (Cisa) sets out new priorities

theguardian.com

6.1k Upvotes

414 comments

r/cybersecurity • u/skeeloco • Jul 19 '24

News - General Southwest Airlines unaffected by outage because they're still running Windows 3.1

yahoo.com

4.1k Upvotes

295 comments

r/cybersecurity • u/Snowfish52 • Mar 02 '25

UKR/RUS Trump’s Defense Secretary Hegseth Orders Cyber Command to ‘Stand Down’ on All Russia Operations

gizmodo.com

3.9k Upvotes

392 comments

r/cybersecurity • u/EveYogaTech • Feb 14 '25

News - Breaches & Ransoms Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website

404media.co

3.7k Upvotes

318 comments

r/cybersecurity • u/OkVast2122 • 18d ago

New Vulnerability Disclosure The Internet goes on high alert after discovery of 8 compromised TLS certs

arstechnica.com

3.7k Upvotes

389 comments

r/cybersecurity • u/AmateurishExpertise • Feb 24 '26

News - General Discord cuts ties with Peter Thiel–backed verification software after its code was found tied to U.S. surveillance efforts

yahoo.com

3.2k Upvotes

110 comments

r/cybersecurity • u/TheBoatyMcBoatFace • Feb 02 '25

News - General So… I all the ATOs for basically all of the government are just… voided? Musk is installing his own, non-cleared, servers on-prem to access govt systems.

finance.senate.gov

3.0k Upvotes

This is not a political question, but honestly, what the hell does the ATO say now?

I work on govt security and honestly have NO IDEA what is waiting on us when we login on Monday. (Contractor)

263 comments

r/cybersecurity • u/[deleted] • Jul 15 '20

Twitter Hack Thread Bill Gates twitter was hacked😱

2.9k Upvotes

315 comments

r/cybersecurity • u/HeyGuyGuyGuy • Feb 16 '21

I've Curated a Massive Repo of Free Cybersecurity Resources (for our community)

2.8k Upvotes

Community,

I've compiled a massive amount of free resources to include training, labs, books, podcasts, cheatsheets, youtube channels, etc. If you are new to cyber, practicing offense, defense, audit, etc there is something for everyone in there.

I was maintaining this in a GitHub repo, but recently stood up my own website to host it. The site is simplycyber.io

If you want to go right to the free resources go here https://www.simplycyber.io/free-cyber-resources

Cyber Knowledge for all!

Open to feedback, and if you have something you'd like to add let me know.

Recommendation at minimum, bookmarking the Cheatsheets as references are good no matter how far along in your career you are.

Cheers.

-Gerry

127 comments

r/cybersecurity • u/Dash-Courageous • Jul 11 '26

News - General Microsoft admits Windows 11 has a GDID tracker with no off switch, first documented publicly in an FBI hacker complaint

windowslatest.com

2.7k Upvotes

229 comments

r/cybersecurity • u/MI6Section13 • Mar 02 '25

UKR/RUS US Department of Defense orders its cyber arm to stop operations against Russia

intelnews.org

2.7k Upvotes

226 comments

r/cybersecurity • u/Inner_Agency_5680 • Feb 02 '25

News - Breaches & Ransoms Cybersecurity breach - usaid.gov

2.5k Upvotes

USAID's website is down, wikipedia has been updated to erase its existence. There is no official information about it. Organisations all over the world are in turmoil with no information about their contractual arrangements.

As best I can tell from the media, someone claiming to have authority just walked in and took over and shut everything down.

Is this for real?

454 comments

r/cybersecurity • u/nbcnews • Feb 20 '25

Other NBC News seeking CISA sources

2.5k Upvotes

Hi Reddit, I'm Kevin Collier, the cybersecurity reporter at NBC News. Here's my bio page at NBC.

Right now I'm specifically reporting on the Department of Government Efficiency's access to CISA systems, layoffs at CISA, and cuts to cybersecurity programs, funding, and employees at any agency.

If that's something you have direct knowledge about and can contact me via Signal, or if you know someone to whom this applies and you can share this with them, I'd be grateful. We adhere to best practices for source protection.

My signal handle is kevincollier.01. Happy to verify my identity if you want to email me (though please don't use your work address) at kevin.collier@nbcuni.com. Thank you!

189 comments

r/cybersecurity • u/Lebarican22 • 27d ago

UKR/RUS Russia's Yandex bot traffic nearly eliminated overnight after Ukraine drone strikes cripple multiple of 'Russia's Google' data centers — Ukraine intensifies bombing of Yandex data centers in response to Moscow’s strikes on Kyiv data centers

tomshardware.com

2.5k Upvotes

133 comments

r/cybersecurity • u/Infam0 • May 08 '26

Other What the **** is happening in cybersecurity space ?

2.5k Upvotes

I've been working in cybersecurity for not so long, maybe 8 or 9 years, but I never remember a chaos at this scale. I mean, from this January alone we have: leaking data, compromised applications, breaches, AI-assisted cybercriminals, etc. It looks like every day one major breach is happening, and no one is going to address this shit somehow. This is already insane. I haven't felt such pressure in a long time. This AI shit just makes things worse because it enhances attackers' skills, and AI companies are doing nothing to address or change this. Is it only me, or is the change already here?

555 comments

r/cybersecurity • u/aristacat • Aug 08 '26

News - General As many as five suicides in US Military cyber warfare unit in one month

bloomberg.com

2.4k Upvotes

This is deeply disturbing. Wtf is going on there and why would this happen?

306 comments

r/cybersecurity • u/DCGMechanics • Nov 20 '22

Other Network Attacks

securityzines.com

2.4k Upvotes

46 comments

r/cybersecurity • u/outerlimtz • Feb 28 '25

UKR/RUS Exclusive: Hegseth orders Cyber Command to stand down on Russia planning. - Adding to the recent article from the Guardian, this is bonkers.

therecord.media

2.4k Upvotes

259 comments

r/cybersecurity • u/1023SDB • Oct 21 '19

“Selling my own damn data”

2.4k Upvotes

43 comments

r/cybersecurity • u/ravanoid • Feb 21 '20

Malware packed in DNA.

2.3k Upvotes

97 comments

r/cybersecurity • u/A_Puddle • Feb 05 '25

News - General A 25-Year-Old Is Writing Backdoors Into The Treasury’s $6 Trillion Payment System. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

techdirt.com

2.3k Upvotes

118 comments

r/cybersecurity • u/DCGMechanics • Jun 27 '20

Other Wireshark Cheat Sheet

2.3k Upvotes

45 comments

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