US Cybersecurity Cutbacks Come at Exactly Wrong Time: Dave Lee

For efficiency’s sake, I’m going to share three recent headlines related to cybersecurity:

• Iran-Linked Hackers Are Sabotaging US Energy and Water Infrastructure (Wired)
• Cybercrime losses jumped 26% to $20.9 billion in 2025 (Cyberscoop)
• Anthropic Claims Its New A.I. Model, Mythos, Is a Cybersecurity ‘Reckoning’ (New York Times)

Now we’ve considered that trio, here’s a fourth:

• Trump administration plans to cut cybersecurity agency’s budget by $700 million (TechCrunch)

That doesn’t make much sense, does it?

The job of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), created by Congress in 2018, is to act as ...