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11.14.25 Security News Bites

DoD Cyber Command 2.0 DoD, apparently, doesn’t like it being called Cyber Command 2.0. Maybe we should call it 3.0 or 4.0. DoD has been wrestling with making Cyber Command more effective since it was formed in 2010. Multiple presidents from both parties have failed at it. Now DoD has a new plan to solve […]

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Duke Energy Agrees to Stop Using Chinese Batteries … by 2027

Batteries are used to store energy produced by photocells for when the sun isn’t shining. DoD base Camp Lejeune used Duke to install a battery energy storage system or BESS made by Japanese company Toshiba, but the batteries in the system are Chinese and send data back to China, Researchers have also shown that they […]

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Security News Bites for June 20, 2025

Car Production in US Could Shut Down in Weeks Due to China Rare Earth Magnet Ban The president says he has worked this out with China – we will see how much of a squeeze China wants to put him in. Xi, as a master deal maker, could choose to squeeze the hell out of […]

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ATTENTION GOVERNMENT CONTRACTORS!

For those of you who contract to the DoD or Department of Education – or are a vendor to those who are, this will apply to you sooner; for other executive branch agencies, it will take a little longer. The section of Title 32, the part of the Code of Federal Regulations that the DoD […]

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Defense Contractor Breach and National Security

The Department of Defense has been trying for ten years now to shore up the security of defense contractors but still has not gotten new regulations passed. Here is one example of why they are needed. Desparately. The breach against defense contractor Acuity, Inc. happened last month. The data was being sold for only $3,000 […]

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