Department of Government Efficiency Archives

A Little Sunshine, Carole Winqwist, Department of Government Efficiency, DOGE, Eric Fourrier, General Services Administration, GitGuardian, Github, Grok, GSAi, Krebs, Latest Warnings, News, Philippe Caturegli, Reuters, Security, Seralys, SpaceX, Tesla, The Coming Storm, The Washington Post, Twitter/X, xAI

xAI Dev Leaks API Key for Private SpaceX, Tesla LLMs

Posted on May 1, 2025 by [email protected]

01
May

An employee at Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI leaked a private key on GitHub that for the past two months could have allowed anyone to query private xAI large language models (LLMs) which appear to have been custom made for working with internal data from Musk’s companies, including SpaceX, Tesla and Twitter/X, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. […]

Continue reading →

A Little Sunshine, async-ip-rotator, Browserless, Daniel J. Berulis, Department of Government Efficiency, Department of Health and Human Services, DOGE, Ge0rg3, Github, Integuru, Krebs, Labor Department, Marko Elez, National Labor Relations Board, News, Politico, Security, The Coming Storm, The Wall Street Journal

DOGE Worker’s Code Supports NLRB Whistleblower

Posted on April 23, 2025 by [email protected]

23
Apr

A whistleblower at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) alleged last week that denizens of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) siphoned gigabytes of data from the agency’s sensitive case files in early March. The whistleblower said accounts created for DOGE at the NLRB downloaded three code repositories from GitHub. Further investigation into one […]

Continue reading →

A Little Sunshine, A.J. Vicens, Chris Krebs, Cyber Safety Review Board, Department of Government Efficiency, DOGE, Dustin Volz, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Gen. Timothy Haugh, Heritage Foundation, Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate, Krebs, Latest Warnings, Martin Matishak, National Counterintelligence and Security Center, national security agency, Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar, News, Newsweek, Paul Rosenzweig, Pennsylvania Capital-Star, Raphael Satter, Reuters, Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (SAVE) Act, Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt, Security, Sen. Mark Warner, Sen. Ron Wyden, Suzanne Smalley, The Coming Storm, The Guardian, The Record, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, U.S. Cyber Command, U.S. Election Assistance Commission, Wendy Noble

Trump Revenge Tour Targets Cyber Leaders, Elections

Posted on April 14, 2025 by [email protected]

14
Apr

President Trump last week revoked security clearances for Chris Krebs, the former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) who was fired by Trump after declaring the 2020 election the most secure in U.S. history. The White House memo, which also suspended clearances for other security professionals at Krebs’s employer SentinelOne, comes as […]

Continue reading →

A Little Sunshine, Branden Spikes, California Russian Association, Congress of Russian Americans, Constellation of Humanity, Cyberinc, Department of Government Efficiency, Diana Fishman, Donald J. Trump, elon musk, Inc., Ivan Y. Podvalov, Jacqueline Sweet, Krebs, Maye Musk, Natalia Haldeman, Natalia Spikes, News, Radaris, Reeve Haldeman, Russian American Media, Russian Heritage Foundation, Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, Scott Haldeman, Security, SpaceX, Spikes Security, U.S. Digital Service

Who is the DOGE and X Technician Branden Spikes?

Posted on March 6, 2025 by [email protected]

06
Mar

At 49, Branden Spikes isn’t just one of the oldest technologists who has been involved in Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). As the current director of information technology at X/Twitter and an early hire at PayPal, Zip2, Tesla and SpaceX, Spikes is also among Musk’s most loyal employees. Here’s a closer look at […]

Continue reading →

A Little Sunshine, Bruce Schneier, Bybit, Christopher Stanley, Coinbase, Conservative Political Action Conference, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Davi Ottenheimer, Department of Government Efficiency, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice, Edward Coristine, Gavin Kliger, Global Investigative Journalism Network, Hunter Labs, Internal Revenue Service, Jacob Silverman, Jacob Williams, Katie Arrington, KleptoCapture Task Force, Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative, Krebs, Latest Warnings, Leland Dudek, lizardstresser, Michelle King, Natalya Martynova, National Institute of Standards and Technology, National Treasury Employees Union, News, Office of Management and Budget, Office of Personnel Management, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, President Donald Trump, Project 2025, Rep. Andy Ogles, Russia's War on Ukraine, Sean Cairncross, Security, Social Security Administration, Starlink, The Coming Storm, Treasury Department, U.S. Agency for International Development, U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Valery Martynov, Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelensky

Trump 2.0 Brings Cuts to Cyber, Consumer Protections

Posted on February 23, 2025 by [email protected]

23
Feb

One month into his second term, President Trump’s actions to shrink the government through mass layoffs, firings and withholding funds allocated by Congress have thrown federal cybersecurity and consumer protection programs into disarray. At the same time, agencies are battling an ongoing effort by the world’s richest man to wrest control over their networks and […]

Continue reading →

Login