Issues, fire bombs, shooting and murder-for-rental yard-all linked to a splinter group of the 764 crime network called “No Lives Matter.” According to his own manifesto, the group seeks to “purify humanity through endless attacks” and released at least two Kill Guides “linked to violent plots in the US and Europe. Intelligence documents revised by Wired show growing concerns among analysts, but experts remain uncertain how to stop the group’s distribution.
X experienced interruptions on Monday after a botnet flooded the social network with junk traffic in an attempt to take off its system. Elon Musk said that the distributed attack on the denial of the service arose from the Ukrainian IP addresses, which implies that the country-what was under siege through a Russian invasion and was regularly mocked by the Centibillionaire. Security experts say that this is not how DDOS attacks work.
Meanwhile, mass dismissal within the cyber security and infrastructure safety agency hurts us and weakens the protection against foreign opponents. The cutting of vital staff has overworked employees and left international partnerships, according to interviews with staff at the agency helping to secure cities, cyber attacks and nonprofit organizations. “A lot of people are scared,” says one employee. “We wait for the other shoe to fall. We don’t know what’s coming. “While Wired you take in the agencies in the middle of the uncertainty and chaos of the Second Trump administration, we have updated our quick and easy guide to using signal to help you utilize the best from the end-to-end coding of the message.
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Those ‘green bubbles’, the cross-platform SMS messages that annoy iPhone owners and re-keep Android users in a group Chat bottom class are not just a cultural disconnection. It is also a security issue: SMS messages sent between Android and iOS devices-Anders as Blue-Borrel-IMESSAGE texts or Android-to-Android messages-is not encrypted from end to end, which they open to oversight or intercept. Now, that can change eventually.
The GSM Association, which is responsible for very widely used telecommunications standards, announced this week that its rich communications services (or RCS) protocol will now support end-to-end coding for cross-platform SMS, and Apple has revealed that it will now integrate the feature of RCs into its iOS. Until now, Apple and Google have supported both the other features of RCS in texts sent between iOS and Android, but not end-to-end coding, which ensures that only the devices that send and receive messages can decrease it and not see any server or snoop it sees in transport.
Neither Apple nor the GSMA said exactly when the new privacy functions are being introduced. Until then, anyone who sends cross-platform messages would be wise to stick to programs like WhatsApp or signal that have been providing end-to-end coding-and also helped to avoid Android and iPhone users personal disputes about bubble colors.
The White House tapped Sean Planey to manage Cisa, the agency within the Department of Home Security, mainly responsible for US digital defense. Planey, who has long considered the leading contender, served in the first Trump administration in multiple cyber security positions in the first Trump administration and previously held senior roles in the US cyber commission. In that Dod Agency, he focused on cyber offense, he served as an armor and tactic bran and earned a bronze star for the hacking operations in Afghanistan. Cisa, like many federal agencies, has faced hundreds of staff cuts over the past few weeks, and his former director, Chris Krebs, came under the previous Trump administration under the fierce criticism for the work of the agency to counter disinformation and secure election. Krebs was fired in a Trump -Tweet at the end of his term after CISA described the 2020 election, whose results Trump disputed unfounded, as the ‘safest in American history’.
Not even the national security agency was spared from Elon Musk’s scorched earth campaign to force the federal government. The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that Musk visited the intelligence agency in Fort Meade, which met with leadership to discuss staff reduction and operational changes, according to current and former US officials who spoke to the Journal.
Despite being one of the most isolated branches of US intelligence, the NSA still drew itself into Musk’s orbit. The visit to Fort Meade is another sign of the diverse nature of his influence and the extraordinary access that the richest man in the world has granted about even the most mysterious federal operations.