The US DOD announces OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and xAI have each won contracts with a $200M ceiling, aimed at enabling agentic AI national security workflows
Now his AI company is celebrating a $200M Pentagon contract and new unit to get government business Brian Fagioli / NERDS.xyz : Elon Musk wants to infect the government with AI using Grok Brady Knox /...
President Trump names Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Solana, and Cardano as assets to be included in a strategic US crypto reserve, causing significant price surges
XRP, ADA, SOL post double-digit losses Molly White / Citation Needed : Issue 78 - President on brink of bailout for bitcoin CoinDesk : Here Is What Crypto Leaders Are Saying About Trump's Crypto Reser...
Sources: the Trump admin dismissed the members of the CSRB, which investigates major cybersecurity incidents, likely disrupting the Salt Typhoon hacks probe
This includes several cyber committees, like CISA's advisory panel and the Cyber Safety Review Board, which was investigating Salt Typhoon. — That review is “dead,” person familiar says. — www.doc...
Experts have long warned “secure backdoor” systems are impossible; Salt Typhoon's reported hack of US ISPs' wiretap systems exemplifies the risks of backdoors
Security professionals and technologists have for years been sounding the alarm about the security risks of backdoors … Riana / @riana@mastodon.lawprofs.org : “Blaze told TechCrunch that the Chinese i...
An investigation shows how, despite US sanctions on the NSO Group, government spyware use is booming, including the DEA's secret deployment of Graphite spyware
which employ former Israeli cyberintelligence veterans. After questions from The New York Times, the Greek government admitted that it gave one of them, Ronen Bergman / @ronenbergman : Congress and th...
Overview of the severe shortage of cybersecurity workers across the US government and private sector, despite an unprecedented slate of hacking threats
Fallout from the Pegasus Project has started as more details emerge … Dave Nyczepir / FedScoop : DOJ reveals 27 U.S. Attorneys offices had emails compromised in SolarWinds hack Tweets: ISSA Los Angele...
Colonial Pipeline, which carries 45% of fuel consumed on the US East Coast, says it halted operations due to a ransomware attack
and Created an Unholy Mess Eric Geller / Politico : What you need to know about the Colonial Pipeline hack Mitchell Clark / The Verge : Colonial Pipeline hackers apologize, promise to ransom less cont...
Sources: state-backed Russian hacking group APT29, or Cozy Bear, is behind the hacks of US Treasury, NTIA, and FireEye
Treasury, Commerce, FireEye—were breached through an IT Management System called Solar Winds https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Dustin Volz / @dnvolz : Sen. Angus King says hack is especially bad as ...
Source: Treasury's hackers used a flaw in a SolarWinds product; SolarWinds, which touts 300K+ customers, says the flaw was the result of a “supply chain attack”
and it has the Kremlin's fingerprints all over it. https://www.bloomberg.com/... Thomas Brewster / @iblametom : New - A review of contract records shows DOD, FBI, DHS, Veterans Affairs and many other ...
Behind the US cybersecurity defense led by DoD's Defense Digital Service of Operation Warp Speed, meant to protect vaccine research from nation-state attacks
Shannon Vavra / CyberScoop : Tweets: @shanvav , @shanvav , @shanvav , @ncscgov , @shanvav , and @shanvav . Thanks: @gregotto Tweets: Shannon Vavra / @shanvav : I am told the assistance includes class...