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Reporter on cyber & emerging tech threats. Fmr BBC, one-time Newsweek, always a Unipresser, ex-POLITICO. I'm the daddy now. Likes etc ≠ approval. DM for Signal.

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Shaun Waterman’s Biography

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Shaun Waterman is an award-winning journalist and communicator who has worked for the BBC, Newsweek, United Press International and POLITICO, and an expert on cybersecurity and counter-terrorism who has presented at the Aspen Security Forum, the National Defense University and the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service.
Shaun is also a seasoned newsroom manager and business leader who has, in the last ten years, launched and run two of the best-respected and most widely read DC daily cybers…

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Exclusive: Biden's Toxic Burn Pits Bill Leaves Civilian Victims to Suffer

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Exclusive: CIA spying on Assange "illegally" swept up US lawyers, journalists

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China's Plan to Rule the World's Smart Devices

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Why a Failed Election Hack Could Be Worse Than a Successful One | The Record by Recorded Future

Why a Failed Election Hack Could Be Worse Than a Successful One | The Record by Recorded Future

The culmination of the U.S. presidential election next month will set the course for American politics over t…

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Microsoft XP's cybersecurity problem

Microsoft XP's cybersecurity problem

Microsoft will cut off support to its 12-year-old operating system Windows XP at about 1 p.m. Eastern time on…

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JAIC Chief: Culture and Process Biggest Barriers to Pentagon Adoption of AI - Air Force Magazine

JAIC Chief: Culture and Process Biggest Barriers to Pentagon Adoption of AI - Air Force Magazine

If DOD is going to get AI-ready by 2025, it will have to get out of its own way, said JAIC Director Lt. Gen. …

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Articles

American Hackers-for-Hire Proposal Sparks Heavy Criticism

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By Shaun Waterman Verified
| Data Breach Today Verified
Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Governance & Risk Management US Senate Committee Approves Private Sector Hacking Pilot Shaun Waterman • July 8, 2026 Image: Shutterstock/ISMG The United States could get its own hack-for-hire network of contractors deputized by the federal government to penetrate foreign adversaries under a provision approved by a Senate Committee on Armed Services in its version of an annual defense authorization bill.
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American Hackers-for-Hire Proposal Sparks Heavy Criticism

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| CareersInfoSecurity India Verified
Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Governance & Risk Management US Senate Committee Approves Private Sector Hacking Pilot Shaun Waterman • July 8, 2026 Image: Shutterstock/ISMG The United States could get its own hack-for-hire network of contractors deputized by the federal government to penetrate foreign adversaries under a provision approved by a Senate Committee on Armed Services in its version of an annual defense authorization bill.
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Not your grandaddy’s botnet

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| Threat Beat
(Image by Bruno from Pixabay) By Shaun Waterman • Jul 07, 2026 The latest generation of botnets, architected into large-scale multi-tiered proxy networks, is making traditional indicator-based defenses obsolete, empowering nation-state and cybercrime threat groups – and posing new and thorny technical and policy dilemmas for defenders. For years, researchers have cataloged the phenomenon with growing alarm, veteran security researcher Joe Slowik told ISMG.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Freelancing about police corruption for the satirical and investigative magazine Private Eye

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes. An Imperial 200 portable owned by my grandmother, who wrote her two autobiographical novels on it.

Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

Spider Jerusalem, from the comic book series Transmetropolitan.
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