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Teen on Musk’s DOGE Team Graduated from ‘The Com’

February 7, 2025 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, as400495, backconnect security llc, curtis gervais, diamondcdn, director of national intelligence, doge, dstat, edward coristine, elon musk, eric taylor, marshal webb, Ne'er-Do-Well News, neuralink, packetware, path networks, president trump, rivage, tesla sexy llc, the com, The Coming Storm, tucker preston, wired

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2025 00:32:53 +0000

Wired reported this week that a 19-year-old working for Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was given access to sensitive US government systems even though his past association with cybercrime communities should have precluded him from gaining the necessary security clearances to do so. As today’s story explores, the DOGE teen is a former denizen of ‘The Com,’ an archipelago of Discord and Telegram chat channels that function as a kind of distributed cybercriminal social network for facilitating instant collaboration.

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A Tumultuous Week for Federal Cybersecurity Efforts

January 27, 2025 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, alfa bank, david sacks, house judiciary committee's select subcommittee on the weaponization of the federal government, jack goldsmith, joe hall, john durham, lawfare, melania trump, michael sussman, president trump, quinta jurecic, rep. jim jordan, The Coming Storm, united states council on transnational organized crime, world liberty financial

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2025 02:50:10 +0000

President Trump last week issued a flurry of executive orders that upended a number of government initiatives focused on improving the nation’s cybersecurity posture. The president fired all advisors from the Department of Homeland Security’s Cyber Safety Review Board, called for the creation of a strategic cryptocurrency reserve, and voided a Biden administration action that sought to reduce the risks that artificial intelligence poses to consumers, workers and national security.