If you wanted to design the perfect identity-theft jackpot, you would build a single file that stores names, SSNs, dates of birth, citizenship, parent names, and more. That file exists inside the Social Security Administration. It is called NUMIDENT. A whistleblower says DOGE-affiliated officials created a cloud copy of it with weaker protections than normal, […]

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and leader of the White House’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), is facing mounting criticism and protests over his political involvement and the actions of DOGE. Elon Musk’s various controversies have led to massive challenges for Tesla, including declining investor confidence, plummeting stock prices, and a series of violent protests […]

Twitter/X had a massive outage on Monday morning EST, with Downdetector spikes surging; In a post, Elon Musk has claimed this was due to a “massive cyberattack” against X. Mashable seem skeptical of Elon, citing the lack of evidence in Musk’s reporting, alongside his prior claim that Trump suffered an attack in August, 2024 – […]

Governments around the world are escalating demands for encryption backdoors, claiming they are required for national security needs. Experts warn that these policies create cybersecurity risks for billions of people. Recently, British officials secretly ordered Apple to create a backdoor into their Advanced Data Protection (ADP) service. Apple responded to this by disabling ADP in […]

Shortly after the inception of the ‘Department of Government Efficiency’, security researchers discovered a significant vulnerability – calling to question the expertise of the auditor. Multiple security researchers have discovered significant security vulnerabilities in the newly launched DOGE.gov website, allowing unauthorized users to modify its database content. The website was created to track the Department […]