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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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DDoS Mitigation Firm Founder Admits to DDoS

January 20, 2020 0 Comments backconnect security llc, DDoS-for-hire, free software foundation, mirai, Ne'er-Do-Well News, richard stallman, tucker preston, u.s. justice department, vdos

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 23:13:03 +0000

A Georgia man who co-founded a service designed to protect companies from crippling distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks has pleaded to paying a DDoS-for-hire service to launch attacks against others.