When asked on 60 Minutes about his pardon of Binance's Changpeng Zhao, President Trump said “I don't know who he is” and “I heard it was a Biden witch hunt”
but CBS cuts it from broadcast Caitlin Keith / Deseret News : 3 takeaways from Trump's ‘60 Minutes’ interview: Trump says he doesn't know who Binance founder Changpeng Zhao is Steven Walgenbach / Insi...
Sources: an impostor used AI to mimic Marco Rubio's voice and writing style and contacted foreign ministers, a US governor, and a member of Congress
The unknown individual contacted at least five government officials, including three foreign ministers, a U.S. governor and a member of Congress, according to a State Department cable.
How the US conducted a monthslong campaign to push The Gambia and at least four other developing nations to license Starlink; diplomats call the events alarming
The State Department has intervened on behalf of Musk's satellite internet company in five developing nations. Bluesky: @karlbode.com , @emptywheel , @rimaanabtawi , and @malwarejake . Mastodon: @Suff...
The US State Department says it will use AI to review social media accounts to revoke visas of students who seem to support designated terror groups like Hamas
www.axios.com/2025/03/06/s... Katie Kirchner / @katie-kirchner : That someone can “appear” to be something and face the state violence of deportation is both so incredibly infuriating, and yet, so dee...
Sources: Chinese hackers targeted phones used by Trump's family and Biden admin and State Department officials; the FBI says there's evidence audio was captured
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Sources: US officials have told Google, Meta, and others about concerns that undersea cables could be vulnerable to tampering by China-owned repair ships
no easy ask in a sector that's globalized by design Jonathan Cheng / @jchengwsj : U.S. officials are privately warning its telecommunications companies: Undersea cables that ferry internet traffic acr...
A US Senate staffer says officials told lawmakers that Chinese hackers who breached Microsoft's email system stole 60K emails from ten State Department accounts
Chinese hackers who breached Microsoft's (MSFT.O) email platform this year managed to steal tens of thousands of emails …
Sources: suspected Russian hackers stole thousands of State Department officials' emails last year; the classified network doesn't appear to have been accessed
Suspected Russian hackers stole thousands of State Department officials' emails last year, according to two Congressional sources familiar …
Sources: Chinese hackers are thought to have hacked a payroll agency inside the US Dept. of Agriculture in 2020 by exploiting another bug in SolarWinds software
Update Now Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek : China-Linked Hackers Exploited SolarWinds Flaw in U.S. Government Attack: Report Phil Muncaster / infosecurity-magazine.com : US Payroll Agency Targeted in Se...
Sources: state-sponsored hackers accessed US DHS internal communications as part of the campaign that penetrated US Treasury and Commerce departments
now five — hacked in major Russian cyberespionage campaign David Uberti / Wall Street Journal : Hack of Federal Agencies Shows Cyber Dangers to Supply Chains Tweets: Dustin Volz / @dnvolz : Can confir...