Substack Daily Updates – 4-28-25

Today I published the following on Chemical Facility Security News:

• OMB Approves DOT Rulemaking NPRM – https://chemical-facility-security-news.blogspot.com/2025/04/omb-approves-dot-rulemaking-nprm.html

• Review – Committee Hearings – Week of 4-27-25 – cUAS hearing – markup session –cybersecurity – Short version of article published here (premium content) – https://chemical-facility-security-news.blogspot.com/2025/04/review-committee-hearings-week-of-4-27.html

• HR 866 Passed in House – ROUTER Act – Passed by voice vote – Would require security study of commercial Chinese routers – https://chemical-facility-security-news.blogspot.com/2025/04/hr-866-passed-in-house-router-act.html

• HR 2482 Passed in House – NTIA Authorization – No cybersecurity language – passed by voice vote – https://chemical-facility-security-news.blogspot.com/2025/04/hr-2482-passed-in-house-ntia.html

• Short Takes – 4-28-25 – Hacking poultry plant chemical feeds – 12-ga adapter for Russian 40 mm grenade launcher for cUAS – New Axiom CEO – Juice jacking update – Signalgate protection – https://chemical-facility-security-news.blogspot.com/2025/04/short-takes-4-28-25.html

Yesterday I published the following on Chemical Facility Security News:

• Review – Public ICS Disclosures – Week of 4-19-25 – Part 2 – For Part 2 we have 2 additional vendor disclosures – 5 vendor updates – 6 researcher reports – 1 exploit – Short version of article published here (premium content) – https://chemical-facility-security-news.blogspot.com/2025/04/review-public-ics-disclosures-week-of-4_27.html

• Chemical Incident Reporting – Week of 4-20-25 – 2 incidents, neither CSB reportable – https://chemical-facility-security-news.blogspot.com/2025/04/chemical-incident-reporting-week-of-4.html

• HR 2482 Reported in House – NTIA Reauthorization – Being reported without amendments – To be considered tomorrow in the House – https://chemical-facility-security-news.blogspot.com/2025/04/hr-2482-reported-in-house-ntia.html

• HR 866 Reported in the House – ROUTER Act – Minor revisions to language of the bill – To be considered in the House tomorrow – https://chemical-facility-security-news.blogspot.com/2025/04/hr-866-reported-in-house-router-act.html

I posted the following to my social media feeds (X, Mastodon, Substack, and LinkedIn):

• Not so funny XKCD.com comic - PhD Timeline - https://xkcd.com/3081/

• I posted the following to a comment on Substack Notes about putting serial numbers on ballots: “And if we put a serial number on every ballot then the winner can locate and deport all of the unamerican folks that voted against them…. No problem winning the next time.”