Knives, bombs, shootings and murder plots – all of which are related to a group of people 764 Crime Network Called “No life. According to its own manifesto, the group attempted to “purify humans with endless attacks” and released at least two “killer guides” related to violent plots in the United States and Europe. Intelligence documents reviewed by Wired show analysts’ growing concern, but experts are still unsure how to stop the group’s differences.
Monday, x Has experienced intermittent interruptions The botnet attempts to remove its system after garbage traffic floods the social network. Elon Musk said the distributed denial of service attack originated from Ukrainian IP addresses, which means the country – which has been besieged by Russian invasions and is often ridiculed by millionaires, may be responsible. Security experts told Wired that this is not how DDOS attacks work.
at the same time, Within the cybersecurity and infrastructure security agencymassive layoffs are hurting US cyber defense and weakening protections for foreign opponents. According to the agency’s interview, layoffs overworked and stressed international partnerships that help protect cyberattacks by cities, businesses and nonprofits. “A lot of people are scared,” one employee said. “We are waiting for other shoes to fall off. We don’t know what will happen.” When the connection takes you Inside the organization At the heart of uncertainty and chaos in the second Trump administration, we have updated Quick and easy guide to using signals To help you take advantage of end-to-end encryption of your messaging application.
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Those “green bubbles”, cross-platform text messages that annoy iPhone owners and downgrade Android users to lower class of group chat, are not only a cultural disconnect. They are also a security issue: text messages sent between Android and iOS devices (unlike blue bubble iMessage text or Android to Android messages) are not encrypted end-to-end, allowing them to be monitored or intercepted. Now, this may eventually be changing.
The GSM Association, which is responsible for many of the widely used telecom standards, announced this week that its rich communications service (or RCS) protocol will now support end-to-end encryption for cross-platform texting, Apple revealed that it will integrate the capabilities of RCS into its iOS devices. So far, both Apple and Google support other features of RCS in text sent between iOS and Android, but do not support end-to-end encryption, which ensures that only devices sending and receiving messages can decrypt them without any servers or detectives seeing them in transit.
Neither Apple nor GSMA stated that the new privacy feature was launched. Until then, anyone sending cross-platform messages would wisely stick to WhatsApp or long-term applications that offer end-to-end encryption and help Android and iPhone users avoid personal controversy over bubble colors.
The White House hired Sean Plankey to run CISA, the Department of Homeland Security’s agency that mainly carries out digital defense in the United States. Plankey has long been considered a major contender for the position, holding multiple cybersecurity positions in the first Trump administration, after previously serving in senior positions at U.S. Cyber Command. In that Ministry of Defense agent focused on cyber offense, he served as head of the Weapons and Tactics branch and received the Bronze Star of Hackers in Afghanistan. Like many federal agencies, CISA Facing hundreds of people to cut In recent weeks, its former director, Chris Krebs, has been severely criticized by the former Trump administration for its work to deal with false information and secure elections. After CISA described the 2020 election, Krebs was fired in a tweet by Trump after his term ended, and his results were undoubtedly “the safest in American history.”
Not even getting rid of the NSA from Elon Musk’s scorched earth movement to the gut government. On Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal reported Musk visited the intelligence agency in Fort Mead, and the current and former U.S. officials who spoke to the magazine said they met with leaders to discuss staff reductions and operational changes.
Despite being one of the most insulated branches of U.S. intelligence, the NSA still finds itself pulled into Musk’s orbit. The visit to Fort Mead is another sign of the enormous nature of his influence, and even the most secret federal action, the world’s richest man was awarded to the world’s richest man.
