My brother actually laughed at dinner and said, ‘I sold that useless laptop of yours for five hundred bucks. Finally got rid of your junk.’ My cousins cheered him on. Then he added, almost proudly, ‘Already handed it off to the buyer.’ I got up, stepped outside, and called my supervisor. By the time I made the report, the FBI cyber team was already tracking the device…

of live threat dashboards, working problems that would never become family conversation and didn’t need to.

One night in early winter, we caught a coordinated attempt moving against a municipal utility network in the Midwest. The kind of thing that would have been national news if it had landed cleanly. We cut it off, isolated the activity, coordinated continue reading …