Nonprofit Cyber News

This primer from Protect Democracy is a guide for nonprofits on how to handle government demands (like subpoenas, warrants, or informal requests) for sensitive data. It focuses on how organizations can fulfill their duty of care to their clients while navigating legal obligations. Key takeaways: Plan ahead and call a lawyer immediately to verify the government's exact legal authority. Never turn over data that you aren't legally required to produce. Read the full article:...

Spoiler: it's not more of the same. From AI-powered attacks to quantum-safe cryptography, the threat landscape is shifting fast. Identity is the new perimeter, Zero Trust is now the baseline (not a best practice), and supply chain transparency is non-negotiable. Inga S. breaks down six trends reshaping how organizations defend themselves this year, and the through line is clear: it's not about stopping every attack. It's about how well your layers hold together when one does.

Cybersecurity researcher Jessica Barker recently recreated five common scam scenarios using a single AI-generated photo and a cloned voice for each. Fake emergencies. Fake executives. Fake friends in trouble. Each one engineered to trigger urgency, fear, or sympathy, and to remove your ability to stop and think. The tools are free. The results are convincing. And the underlying scripts are exactly what scammers have always used, because they work. When emotions are heightened

Houses of worship and religious nonprofits are facing a growing range of security threats, from phishing attempts and vandalism to physical danger and frivolous litigation. Protect Democracy's Faithful Fight Toolkit, developed in partnership with the Horizons Project, gives faith community leaders a practical starting point across three areas: data and cybersecurity, legal compliance and records management, and physical security planning. The toolkit is resource-heavy in the

This is the question Wired's Andy Greenberg and Lily Hay Newman put to technologists, activists, aid groups, and cybersecurity experts. Grassroots organizing is surging, but so is the surveillance apparatus watching it, backed by federal agencies with vast monitoring powers and deep cooperation from the Silicon Valley companies that hold Americans' data. The piece covers threat modeling, encrypted tools, and the tradeoffs between keeping things secret versus keeping them acce