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Cybersecurity

Nobody talks about what happens when the agency writing federal cybersecurity standards has no director, no playbook, and a third fewer staff — CISA's May 2026 leak just made it visible

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has admitted it began writing its incident response playbook during the incident it was responding to — a breach in which a contractor exposed administrative credentials to Amazon AWS GovCloud accounts and internal CISA systems on a public GitHub repository.

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A 65-year-old programming language called COBOL still quietly runs over $3 trillion in banking transactions every single day — and because the original engineers are retiring fast, banks are scrambling to pay younger coders fortunes just to keep the ancient code from collapsing

COBOL remains embedded in banking and government systems because replacing old code means replacing decades of business logic, not just a programming language.