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DOGE accused of duplicating critical Social Security database on unsecured cloud
Brandon Vigliarolo, Theregister.com
Remember that cost-cutting group once led by Elon Musk? Federal employees are still dealing with it A Social Security Administration employee has filed a whistleblower complaint alleging that Donald Trump's DOGE cost-cutting unit has put the records of every …
Aug 26, 2025, 8:02 PM
Whistleblower says Trump officials copied millions of Social Security numbers
Geoff Brumfiel, NPR
A whistleblower complaint says that the personal data of over 300 million Americans was copied to a private cloud account to allow access by members of the Department of Government Efficiency team.
Aug 26, 2025, 6:02 PM
Zscaler and CrowdStrike (CRWD) Team Up to Boost AI-Powered Cybersecurity
Ghazal Ahmed, Yahoo Entertainment
CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWD) is one of the Trending AI Stocks on Wall Street. On August 20, cloud security leader Zscaler, Inc. announced an...
Aug 23, 2025, 1:50 AM
UK Reportedly Backs Off Plan To Force Apple To Unlock Encrypted iCloud Data
staff@bgr.com (José Adorno), BGR
After the UK ordered Apple to offer a backdoor, security experts raised concerns that such a feature could lead to hackers exploiting it.
Aug 19, 2025, 11:10 AM
Apple won’t have to build an iCloud backdoor for UK access to American data
Marcus Mendes, 9to5Mac
The UK has retreated from a controversial order that would have forced Apple to provide a backdoor to American users’ data, according to a statement from US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. Here are the details. more…
Aug 19, 2025, 3:47 AM
SentinelOne (S) Expands Mimecast Partnership to Advance Human-Centric Cybersecurity
Habib Ur Rehman, Yahoo Entertainment
SentinelOne, Inc. (NYSE:S is one of the best mid cap AI stocks to buy right now. SentinelOne, Inc. (NYSE:S) is one of the best midcap AI stocks to buy right ...
Aug 17, 2025, 8:30 PM
Russia Is Cracking Down on End-to-End Encrypted Calls
Lily Hay Newman, Wired
Plus: ICE agents accidentally add a random person to a sensitive group chat, Norwegian intelligence blames the Kremlin for hacking a dam, and new facial recognition vans roam the UK.
Aug 16, 2025, 10:30 AM
PACER Hacked By Malicious Entities, Briefly Turning It Into A Useful Source For Federal Court Documents
Tim Cushing, Techdirt
The US Court system’s electronic filing front-end has always been a mess. Not only is it prohibitively expensive for most casual users, it’s prohibitively dysfunctional even for power users. Whoever isn’t discouraged by the outdated front end will be just as …
Aug 15, 2025, 5:53 PM
CL-STA-0969 Installs Covert Malware in Telecom Networks During 10-Month Espionage Campaign
info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News), Internet
Telecommunications organizations in Southeast Asia have been targeted by a state-sponsored threat actor known as CL-STA-0969 to facilitate remote control over compromised networks. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 said it observed multiple incidents in the region, …
Aug 2, 2025, 4:30 PM
CISA caves to Wyden, agrees to release US telco insecurity report - but won’t say when
Jessica Lyons, Theregister.com
The security nerds' equivalent of the Epstein files saga The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on Tuesday finally agreed to make public an unclassified report from 2022 about American telecommunications networks' poor security practices.…
Jul 29, 2025, 10:46 PM
CISA Cannot Drift: Will Sean Plankey Be The Captain To Lock The Wheel?
Emil Sayegh, Contributor, Emil Sayegh, Contributor https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilsayegh/, Forbes
CISA faces a dangerous leadership gap as cyber threats escalate. Sean Plankey’s nomination offers focus and experience to secure America’s critical infrastructure.
Jul 27, 2025, 11:10 PM
UK sanctions Russian spies for malicious activity
BBC News
Three Russian intelligence units and 18 officers have been sanctioned, the Foreign Office says.
Jul 18, 2025, 3:36 PM
DOGE Denizen Marko Elez Leaked API Key for xAI
BrianKrebs, Krebs on Security
Marko Elez, a 25-year-old employee at Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has been granted access to sensitive databases at the U.S. Social Security Administration, the Treasury and Justice departments, and the Department of Homeland Secur…
Jul 15, 2025, 1:23 AM
Elmo's X account gets hacked, posts antisemitic and racist messages
Kanishka Singh, Yahoo Entertainment
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Hackers broke into the X account of Sesame Street character Elmo and posted antisemitic and racist messages, the makers of the...
Jul 14, 2025, 10:07 PM
Someone hijacked Elmo's X account to post antisemitic rants
Jessica Lyons, Theregister.com
Anyone investigated Grok? Just sayin'… Someone hacked Elmo's X account on Sunday, making it appear as if the lovable Sesame Street monster with the habit of referring to themselves in the third-person spewed a series of now-removed antisemitic, racist, and an…
Jul 14, 2025, 9:43 PM
In Retrospect, You Should Have Known That Was Not Marco Rubio
Alexandra Petri, The Atlantic
11 signs to help distinguish between him and an AI impostor
Jul 9, 2025, 8:57 PM
The Columbia hack is a much bigger deal than Mamdani’s college application
Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge
On June 24th, Columbia University experienced an hourslong system-wide outage. Its internal email service went down. Students couldn't log in to the platform where professors post assignments and course materials. Library catalogs went offline. Zoom was unava…
Jul 9, 2025, 8:18 PM
An analysis finds Chinese firms aim to buy 115K+ US-sanctioned Nvidia H100 and H200 chips for 39 data centers across China's western deserts, mostly in Xinjiang (Bloomberg)
Techmeme.com
Bloomberg: An analysis finds Chinese firms aim to buy 115K+ US-sanctioned Nvidia H100 and H200 chips for 39 data centers across China's western deserts, mostly in Xinjiang — https://www.bloomberg.com/news/ articles/2025-07-08/latest-tariff-pause - shows-lim…
Jul 9, 2025, 1:35 AM
ICE Using Repurposed Border Facial Recognition Tech To ID Protesters, Activists, And Migrants On US Streets
Tim Cushing, Techdirt
The Trump Administration’s constant escalation of its mass deportation programs now means ICE, CBP, and other federal agencies must come up with thousands of arrests a day. This never had anything to do with removing criminals from the country and, even if yo…
Jul 7, 2025, 8:34 PM
Report says ByteDance is creating a new TikTok US version to quell 'concerns'
nickodiaz@sbcglobal.net (Nickolas Diaz) , Nickolas Diaz, Android Central
A report claimed ByteDance was creating a new TikTok app specifically for the U.S.
Jul 7, 2025, 6:50 PM
TikTok’s Escape Plan May Be a Brand New App
Luc Olinga, Gizmodo.com
With a September deadline looming, a new report says TikTok is building a replacement app for its 170 million American users as part of a sale to an Oracle led group.
Jul 6, 2025, 9:59 PM
Stalkerware firm gets scooped by SQL-slinging security snoop
Brandon Vigliarolo, Theregister.com
Also, Swiss ransomware posture looks like its cheese, the CVE Program wants YOU, more sus checks and more Infosec In Brief A security researcher looking at samples of stalkerware discovered an SQL vulnerability that allowed him to steal a database of 62,000 u…
Jul 6, 2025, 8:10 PM
Android May Soon Warn You About Fake Cell Towers
Matt Burgess, Wired
Plus: Iran-linked hackers threaten to release Trump campaign emails, Chinese hackers still in US telecoms networks, and an abusive deepfake website plans an expansion.
Jul 5, 2025, 10:30 AM
Hackers Are Threatening to Release Emails Stolen from Trump’s Aides, Roger Stone, and Stormy Daniels
Lucas Ropek, Gizmodo.com
The cybercriminals are interested in making some money off the stolen materials.
Jul 1, 2025, 7:10 PM