The Elon Musk–founded Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) uploaded to an insecure Amazon Web Services server a copy of Americans’ Social Security data, risking the security of critical personal information for more than 300 million people, according to a protected whistleblower disclosure to the US Office of Special Counsel and congressional committees filed by the Government Accountability Project.…
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Top US cyber officials face divergent paths after Senate confirmation
Since the start of the Trump administration, the US federal government’s two top cybersecurity leadership positions have been vacant, but those roles are finally on the path to being filled. The first job is the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which has been vacant since former director Jen Easterly left on…