As Elvan Mossak and the so -called State Department of State efficiency through US federal institutions, Wired reported this week extensively from DOGE members, digital activity and access to some of the most subtle and most important US government software systems . One of the DOGE technicians, a 19-year-old high school graduate, Edward Coristine, founded at least five different companies in the past four years-including Tesla.sexy LLC- and briefly worked in a network supervision company that condemned hackers Has hired. Experts raise the question of whether Coristine, which is called “Big Balls” online, approves the background examination usually needed to access sensitive US government systems.
Meanwhile, removing the appearance of USAID along with the US State Department’s budget budget has disrupted significant efforts to help people escape the forced labor camps in Southeast Asia run by criminal fraudsters. Is.
Outside US Government News, Wired in the past five years have been investigating more than 300 cyber attacks against US K -12 schools and found that victims’ schools sometimes important information on the scale and scope of violations of students and parents affected They refuse. In a little better news, data related to the Cryptocurrency Chainalysis tracking company shows that ransomware has been reduced in the second half of 2024. However, experts are afraid that brief restoration can be short -term and may not be easy for defenders.
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The Washington Post reported on Friday that Apple received a secret order from the British Foreign Minister’s office and has handed over the company to provide a way to access user -protected user data by protecting the company’s advanced data for ICloud . This feature, which started at the end of 2022, is designed with an end -to -end encryption, so only its users, not Apple, have access to their data. As a result, British demand requires Apple to break this feature by building a back. Sources said to the post that instead of rear -installed, Apple is likely to support advanced data for ICloud in the UK. “However, this privilege does not meet British demand for access to services in other countries, including the United States,” the post said.
The order was issued in the UK under the Law on Extensive Research Authority in the UK. British law enforcement agencies, cited by police in the United States and other countries, have been supporting encryption scenes for years, and lawmakers have tried to support the backing at different times. “We do not comment on operational affairs, such as confirming or denying such declarations,” said the house office in a statement. A spokesman for Apple refused to comment on the post.
The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, gave President Donald Trump the Golden President when they met in Washington on Tuesday. The gift refers to the September attack in Lebanon against the Hezbollah militia group, in which the trapped (and governor and dialogue) exploded in coordinated explosions across the country. According to Lebanese officials, the operation killed at least 42, including some civilians, and injured at least 4,000 civilians. The attack has been widely attributed to Israel, but it has neither confirmed nor denied the conflict. At the meeting, Trump apparently signed a photo of the two he signed, “to BBC, a great leader!”
Hewlett Packard has informed dozens of users whose personal information has been stolen during 2023 violations. The company is attacking the Russian -backed hackers. The stolen data included social security numbers, driver’s license information and credit card numbers. The incident began as a system penetration in May 2023 into HPE email boxes and Microsoft SharePoint systems. HPE revealed the incident in January 2024.
Giant Giant Powerschool says that at least 16,000 students in the UK have stolen their data as part of December data violations, which may have affected 62 million students and 9.5 million teachers, most of them in the states Are the United States and Canada. The attackers used the accreditation credentials to penetrate the company’s customer support portal and then access the user data.
A spokesman for Powerschool confirmed in statements that students were influenced by “approximately 16,000 students” in four British schools. It is unclear whether this is the total number of British victims. Risk data includes students’ birth date, contact information, some medical data and “other related information”.
