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Securing Tomorrow: Your Daily Dose of Cyber Safety, Tech Trends, National Security News, and Inspiration.
“At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.”
-Frederick Douglass
I. National Security: Key developments in national security, particularly cyber and technological warfare.
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U.S. Deploys Shahed-136 Clones To Middle East As A Warning To Iran
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The U.S. has activated Task Force Scorpion Strike, a special‑operations unit equipped with Low‑Cost Uncrewed Combat Attack System (LUCAS) drones—reverse‑engineered from Iran’s Shahed‑136 and built by Arizona firm SpektreWorks—for the first time in the Middle East, fielding about two dozen troops and a swarm‑capable, $35 k platform that can be launched from catapults, rockets or vehicles and operate beyond line of sight; officials say the unit is intended to “flip the script” on Iran and its proxies, providing a scalable, low‑cost strike capability that could also be used against Houthi forces and other regional threats while paving the way for broader U.S. adoption of similar kamikaze drones. Click here to read more.
II. Tech Trends: Updates on emerging technology trends shaping the digital world.
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It works on its own: Amazon introduces three new AI agents
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Amazon Web Services unveiled three “frontier” AI agents at re:Invent 2025—Kiro AI, which can autonomously handle development tasks for days by interpreting high‑level goals, generating code across multiple repositories, testing and creating pull requests while learning from existing code; an AWS Security Agent that spots vulnerabilities during coding and suggests fixes; and a DevOps Agent that resolves and prevents incidents to improve system reliability and performance, all designed to operate with minimal human supervision. Click here to read more.
III. Inspiration: Articles centered on faith that offer guidance and reflection.
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‘Nothing but a Miracle’: Cops Save Unconscious Man From Burning Car With Seconds to Spare
- South Brunswick, New Jersey police officers Yash Shroff and Thomas Sites rescued an unconscious 26‑year‑old driver, Safwan Islam, from a burning car after his vehicle crashed into a tree and ignited; the officers smashed a window, pulled him out just before the car erupted in flames, and his father called the rescue “nothing but a miracle,” with Islam expected to make a full recovery. Click here to read more.
IV. Cyber Safety: A focus on the latest cybersecurity threats, tips, or breaches impacting individuals and organizations.
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Chrome, Edge Extensions Caught Tracking Users, Creating Backdoors
- A threat actor known as ShadyPanda has been publishing malicious Chrome and Edge extensions for about seven years, amassing over 4 million downloads and using the add‑ons to inject affiliate‑tracking code on sites like eBay, Amazon and Booking.com, log browsing data via Google Analytics, read cookies and capture search‑box inputs, and then exfiltrate the information to remote servers; after initially posing as harmless tools, the extensions were later updated to act as a remote‑code‑execution backdoor that checks an external server hourly and can run arbitrary JavaScript, allowing the attacker to pivot to ransomware, credential theft or espionage, prompting Google and Microsoft to remove the offending extensions from their stores. Click here to read more.
V. Shield of Israel: Coverage from The Jerusalem Post, providing an Israeli perspective on ongoing conflicts.
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Israel, Lebanon hold first senior-level talks in decades as US pushes engagement
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Israeli Deputy Head of the Foreign Policy Division Uri Reznik met in Nakura, Lebanon, with U.S. Lebanon‑affairs adviser Morgan Ortagus and Lebanese civilian envoy Simon Karam—an anti‑Hezbollah lawyer and former ambassador—to hold the first senior‑level Israel‑Lebanon talks since the 1991 Madrid conference; the parties said the meeting was positive, discussed ideas for future economic cooperation, and pledged to reconvene, while Israel reiterated that Hezbollah’s disarmament remains a prerequisite for any further progress. Click here to read more.
