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DOGE Denizen Marko Elez Leaked API Key for xAI

July 25, 2025 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, business insider, Data Breaches, doge, gitguardian, github, grok, marko elez, philippe caturegli, president trump, seralys, techcrunch, The Coming Storm, the new york times, the wall street journal, the washington post, twitter, vice president j.d. vance, x, xai

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2025 01:23:43 +0000

Marko Elez, a 25-year-old employee at Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has been granted access to sensitive databases at the U.S. Social Security Administration, the Treasury and Justice departments, and the Department of Homeland Security. So it should fill all Americans with a deep sense of confidence to learn that Mr. Elez over the weekend inadvertently published a private key that allowed anyone to interact directly with more than four dozen large language models (LLMs) developed by Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI.

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Senator Chides FBI for Weak Advice on Mobile Security

July 25, 2025 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, Apple, bill marczak, citizen lab, cve-2025-43200, emerita melissa hortman, federal bureau of investigation, Google, international computer science institute, john hoffman, kash patel, Latest Warnings, lockdown mode, lorenzo francheschi-bicchierai, nicholas weaver, security tools, sen. ron wyden, susie wiles, The Coming Storm, the wall street journal, Time to Patch

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2025 17:33:59 +0000

Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) briefed Capitol Hill staff recently on hardening the security of their mobile devices, after a contacts list stolen from the personal phone of the White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles was reportedly used to fuel a series of text messages and phone calls impersonating her to U.S. lawmakers. But in a letter this week to the FBI, one of the Senate’s most tech-savvy lawmakers says the feds aren’t doing enough to recommend more appropriate security protections that are already built into most consumer mobile devices.