Musk Aides With No Government or Cybersecurity Expertise Play Critical Roles at OPM Six young engineers, all under age 24 and one just out of high school, with no government or cybersecurity experience, are now playing critical roles in Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) project, gaining unrestricted access to computer systems at the Office […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I don’t even know where to go with this other than to say, unfortunately, I am not surprised. Likely not patching a known bug is probably not illegal, as is not disclosing it. Roll back almost a decade, in 2016, whistleblower and security expert Andrew Harris was working for Microsoft. He was investigating a breach […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The government is escalating their response to cyber attacks and they are having a little bit of success, but as we have seen recently, that means that they are also going against companies that do not have adequate security. In addition, we have seen that they are going the people in those companies who should […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Signal Provides Customer IP Address to Swiss Police While police all over the world complain about the universe going dark on them, that is only true to an extent. Proton maintains no logs, but they can capture data in real time. In this case they received an order from the Swiss Federal Department of Justice, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Internet Rot Causes Porn on Legit Sites News sites like New York Magazine and others accidentally displayed porn because they had links to the old and now gone Vidme video sharing site. Vidme went out of business in 2017 and a porn site bought the domain. Since there is no easy way for web site […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]SolarWinds Hackers Got Emails of Former Acting Illegal Head of DHS Chad Wolf, former temporary acting head of DHS, that a federal court said was illegally appointed, has another item for his resume. When the Russians hacked DHS by way of SolarWinds, they obtained Wolf’s emails. Try to comprehend, for a moment, the intelligence value […]
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