OPM Director Scott Kupor earlier this month said DOGE “doesn't exist” and OPM took over many of its functions, eight months before DOGE was set to close
Good morning. I've been thinking a lot about how a fleet … Nicholas Ballasy / Just The News : DOGE officially dissolved, OPM says NDTV Profit : Trump's Government Efficiency Department Disbands 8 Mon...
Apple announces a “major evolution” of the Apple Security Bounty program, doubling its top award to $2M for exploit chains that could be abused for spyware
$2M Top Payout Usman Qureshi / iPhone in Canada : Apple Doubles Security Bounty Rewards to $2 Million Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer : Apple now offers $2 million for zero-click RCE vulnerabilities Ti...
The US Secret Service says it has dismantled 300+ SIM card servers in the NYC area that could have disrupted communications ahead of the UN General Assembly
NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/... Anthony Guglielmi / @ajguglielmi : While investigating threats against senior officials, the @SecretService uncovered & dismantled a telecom network capable of disr...
How the Chinese hacking community Honkers, consisting of patriotic self-taught tech enthusiasts, became an integral part of China's cyberespionage apparatus
A new report traces the history of the early wave of Chinese hackers who became the backbone of the state's espionage apparatus. Bluesky: @patrickhowelloneill.com . Mastodon: @kimzetter@infosec.exchan...
Sources and docs: a “major lapse” at Thoma Bravo's Opexus, which helps US agencies manage investigations and FOIA, let two convicted hackers delete databases
Failures in cybersecurity practices at a software company that helps federal agencies manage investigations … Bluesky: @kimzetter Bluesky: Kim Zetter / @kimzetter : Two brothers previously convicted o...
An internal NSA memo in February 2025 warned staff of a “Signal Vulnerability”; Signal says it was a phishing warning and “had nothing to do with” its core tech
Good morning. The latest Nielsen numbers are out … HuffPost : Trump's CIA Director Blames Biden Team For Allowing Communications On Signal App James Farrell / SiliconANGLE : NSA warned about vulnerab...
Two researchers say a security conference in China potentially used the event as a secret espionage operation to collect intelligence from an unknown target
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TeamViewer warns that its corporate environment was breached on June 26 and attributes the cyberattack to the Russian hacking group APT29, aka Midnight Blizzard
but customer and company data is safe Alex Ivanovs / Stack Diary : TeamViewer confirms Russian spies hacked its corporate network The Hacker News : TeamViewer Detects Security Breach in Corporate IT E...
A look at some government contractors that are helping US intelligence agencies and others use targeted mobile ads to track down people
Meet the guy who taught US intelligence agencies how to make the most of the ad tech ecosystem, “the largest information-gathering enterprise ever conceived by man.” Mastodon: @simontsui@infosec.excha...
The FBI and the DOJ say thousands of IT workers sent by North Korea to work remotely for US companies using false IDs have sent millions in wages to North Korea
And this wouldn't be happening if US companies would invest in training for local workers. They want cheap labor, and they don't care about the dangers of giving hostile nations access to tech. Blues...