In misinformation, Russia might be the top dog but the Chinese are coming warns former NSA boss DEF CON  A cache of documents uncovered by Vanderbilt University has revealed disturbing details about how a Chinese company is building up a database of US politicians and influencers with whom to share propaganda.… READ MORE HERE…

Fun feature found in Debian 13: send your selected text to China – in plaintext As Trixie gets ready to début, a little-known app is hogging the limelight: StarDict, which sends whatever text you select, unencrypted, to servers in China.… READ MORE HERE…

Tells The Reg China’s ability to p0wn Redmond’s wares ‘gives me a political aneurysm’ Comment  Roger Cressey served two US presidents as a senior cybersecurity and counter-terrorism advisor and currently worries he’ll experience a “political aneurysm” due to Microsoft’s many security messes.… READ MORE HERE…

Will someone think of the deals politicians are making? Opinion  You might think, since I write about tech all the time, my degrees are in computer science. Nope. I’m a bona fide, degreed historian, which is why I can say with confidence that the UK’s recently passed Online Safety Act is doomed to fail.… READ MORE HERE…

No reported in-the-wild exploits…yet Microsoft and the feds late Wednesday sounded the alarm on another high-severity bug in Exchange Server hybrid deployments that could allow attackers to escalate privileges from on-premises Exchange to the cloud.… READ MORE HERE…