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Elon Musk doesn’t work for DOGE, says White House as battle for government servers intensifies – Computerworld
Furthermore, “The intelligence team recommended the DOGE members be monitored as an insider threat. Critically, they called for “suspending” any access to payment systems and “conducting a comprehensive review of all actions they may have taken on these systems,” it continued. “Mr. Musk has gained sweeping and unprecedented access to sensitive data, information, systems, and technological and financial infrastructure across…
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DOGE can keep accessing government data for now, judge rules
A US federal judge declined to block Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing or transferring data from seven government agencies, or stop further firings of their workforce. DC District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan denied a temporary restraining order (TRO) sought by a group of 14 Democratic state attorneys general, led by New Mexico. The states…
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RansomHub claims two recent ransomware attacks on US government entities
Over the weekend, RansomHub added two US government entities to its data leak site — the City of Tarrant and Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians. In the case of Tarrant, it alleges to have stolen 28 GB of data, while a purported 119 GB has been stolen from the Sault Tribe. Both of these government organizations confirmed ransomware…
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Trade body urges UK government to speed up National Semiconductor Strategy
TechUK has issued an updated review of its UK Plan for Chips, urging the government to move faster to implement its National Semiconductor Strategy. Two years on from its initial report, techUK said it had welcomed the publication of the strategy in 2023, which incorporated key recommendations from its original UK Plan for Chips. However, the trade body said that…
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UK government signs up Anthropic to improve public services
The UK government has signed a memorandum of understanding with Anthropic to explore how the company’s Claude AI assistant could be used to improve access to public services. According to a statement from government officials, the aim is to advance best practices for the responsible deployment of frontier AI capabilities across the public sector while fostering close cooperation between government…
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UK Government Reportedly Demands Access to Encrypted iCloud Files
The U.K.’s office of the Home Secretary has allegedly asked Apple to provide a backdoor into any material any user has uploaded to iCloud worldwide, The Washington Post reported on Feb. 7. Anonymous sources provided The Washington Post the information and expressed concerns about tech companies being leveraged for government surveillance. Apple has not commented; however, in March, the company…
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US Government sued after mass emails to federal workforce allegedly sent from insecure server – Computerworld
The OPM, of course, has form when it comes to data security. In 2015, it detected a huge data breach affecting 22.1 million employee records, including PII such as social security numbers. That led to Congressional hearings and several government reports that identified a depressing list of underlying causes. But with this history in mind, the idea that an unknown…
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NAO warns that UK government doesn’t know how vulnerable its IT systems are
The cyber threat to the UK government is ‘severe and advancing quickly’, the National Audit Office (NAO) has found. It said the government’s new cyber assurance scheme, GovAssure, independently assessed 58 critical departmental IT systems last year and found significant gaps in cyber resilience. Meanwhile, there are at least 228 legacy systems in use – and the government doesn’t know…
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US government urged to overhaul outdated technology
US government IT operations may be wasteful and dated, according to a report from the US Government Accountability Office (GAO). Government IT acquisitions face major challenges and critical action is needed to implement more effective, cost-efficient solutions, the report said. The GAO offered nine actions that must be taken to make these changes. A strengthening of oversight and management is…
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The Best Government Conspiracy Movies
We may earn a commission from links on this page. Governments lie. They cheat. They steal. Sometimes the blame comes from within: corrupt individuals who’d conned their ways into the halls of power with no moral compass beyond their own self-aggrandizement. Sometimes, the fault lies within ourselves: We’re drawn to populist politicians who tell us what we want to hear…
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