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.
US Authorities Say Daniil Kasatkin, 26, Worked as Negotiator for Ransomware Group A Paris criminal court on Tuesday held an extradition hearing for a Russian professional basketball player who U.S. authorities say worked as a negotiator for an undisclosed ransomware group. French police on June 21 arrested Daniil Kasatkin, 26, at Charles de Gaulle Airport.
Experts Warn Federal Cyber Cuts Are Hindering Public-Private Threat Sharing Efforts The White House has continued to sharply reduce the size of cybersecurity teams across the federal government while cutting information technology budgets and funding for key programs. Experts warn public-private information sharing around critical cyberthreats has slowed.
CEO Doug Merritt: GenAI, Workload Sprawl Raise Zero Trust Stakes for Aviatrix Aviatrix is addressing cloud network security gaps with its new Cloud Native Security Fabric. CEO Doug Merritt says companies need zero trust across ephemeral workloads, especially with agentic AI multiplying data pathways. The company’s pivot includes a new C-suite and product strategy overhaul.
Remote Code Execution Flaw Affects More Than 5,000 Servers Threat actors are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability in a server file transfer solution. Researchers say the flaw in Wing FTP Server could allow threat actors to execute system-level commands remotely, using null byte and Lua injection without authentication.