2025-02-20
@KimZetter reports in @WIRED that a former associate of #hacker gang The Com that worked w a Russian #ransomware gang to shut down @MGMResortsIntl in Vegas and competes to bully teens online to harm themselves is now on the staff of @CISAgov Cool, cool. https://www.wired.com/...
Wired
Source: 19-year-old Edward Coristine and Kyle Schutt, both DOGE engineers, are now on staff at the CISA; Coristine was briefly an intern for Neuralink
DOGE technologists Edward Coristine—the 19-year-old known online as “Big Balls”—and Kyle Schutt are now listed as staff at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
2024-01-31
Latest from @SuzanneMSmalley in @TheRecord_Media puts together the pieces that #tech lobbyists want to keep separate. Tech has been happy with #gridlock in Congress because it let them muscle in on the states and locals trying to protect their consumers. https://therecord.media/...
The Verge
Q&A with Sen. Brian Schatz on Congress' dysfunction in the tech space, regulating tech firms, the EU's DMA, AI, deepfakes, social media laws for kids, and more
Today, I'm talking with Senator Brian Schatz of Hawaii. He's been in the Senate for a little more than a decade now, and he's seen a lot in that time.
Latest from @SuzanneMSmalley in @TheRecord_Media puts together the pieces that #tech lobbyists want to keep separate. Tech has been happy with #gridlock in Congress because it let them muscle in on the states and locals trying to protect their consumers. https://therecord.media/...
The Record
Legislators and privacy experts detail how the tech industry has sought to water down state privacy regulation in the US; 13 US states now have privacy laws
Suzanne Smalley / The Record :
2023-01-10
What the actual f—k! The invaluable @briankrebs demonstrates, yet again, that Experian are not fit to run a piss-up in a brewery, let alone guard the personal data of millions of Americans. Experian credit reports were obtainable by URL manipulation. https://krebsonsecurity.com/ ...
Krebs on Security