Share with people who may not be that aware of what Musk's #DOGE rats have been doing inside the people's protected data systems. Thank you #Harvard University for putting this online.

"Could my data be used against me?

Yes, and the risks are both immediate and long-term. In the short term, unauthorized access has already enabled targeting of individuals for harassment. For example, some employees of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) have been “doxxed,” i.e., had their personal information released publicly, after DOGE accessed personnel files. Federal workers are reporting fear of political retaliation, with FBI officials particularly concerned about the targeting of those perceived as disloyal to the administration. While these examples involve federal employees, the data DOGE is accessing could enable similar attacks against many Americans who do not work for the federal government. Leaked data could enable identity theft, financial fraud, or targeted harassment."

#coup #corruption #infosec #InsiderThreat https://ash.harvard.edu/resources/understanding-doge-and-your-data/

"members of the DOGE team asked that their activities not be logged on the system and then appeared to try to cover their tracks behind them, turning off monitoring tools and manually deleting records of their access — evasive behavior that several cybersecurity experts interviewed by NPR compared to what criminal or state-sponsored hackers might do." ... "If he didn't know the backstory, any [chief information security officer] worth his salt would look at network activity like this and assume it's a nation-state attack from China or Russia," said Braun, the former White House cyber official. ... In the days after Berulis and his colleagues prepared a request for CISA's help investigating the breach, Berulis found a printed letter in an envelope taped to his door, which included threatening language, sensitive personal information and overhead pictures of him walking his dog, according to the cover letter attached to his official disclosure. ... "If the underlying disclosure wasn't concerning enough, the targeted, physical intimidation and surveillance of my client is. If this is happening to Mr. Berulis, it is likely happening to others and brings our nation more in line with authoritarian regimes than with open and free democracies," wrote Bakaj, his attorney
#DOGE #corruption #infosec #cybersecurity #InsiderThreat #coup #natsec https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security

And here's another reminder of the insider threat if you don't investigate your employees' or consultants' backgrounds and claimed credentials carefully enough. @briankrebs has the story and how a number of criminal cases may now be appealed or overturned:

Cyber Forensic Expert in 2,000+ Cases Faces FBI Probe:

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/04/cyber-forensic-expert-in-2000-cases-faces-fbi-probe/

Today's reminder of the insider threat involves a pharmacist in Maryland who over a period of 8 years or more, used keyloggers and installed spyware on about 400 computers at the University of Maryland Medical System so he could spy on female co-workers in private moments at work (such as changing clothes, breastfeeding their babies), and in their homes. He was reportedly fired in October 2024, and was able to get another job in another healthcare facility in Maryland because there has been no criminal charges filed against him yet and UMMS apparently didn't alert his new employer.

If Maryland law is like my state's laws, the hospital may be barred legally from revealing what happened if asked for a recommendation by the new employer. And it seems the Maryland state pharmacy board can't just suspend a license unless there's been a conviction, so the failure to have criminal charges filed already seems to have put more potential victims at risk.

Unsurprisingly, a potential class action lawsuit has already been filed against UMMS with six plaintiffs so far. There are estimates that there are more than 80 victims of the now-former employee.

Some of the media coverage on the case: https://thedailyrecord.com/2025/04/04/six-women-sue-umms-claiming-staffer-spied-on-them-after-security-breach/

Man found guilty of planting infinite loop logic bomb on ex-employer’s system - Davis Lu had planted malicious Java code onto his employer's network that would cause "in... https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/man-found-guilty-of-planting-infinite-loop-logic-bomb-on-ex-employers-system #insiderthreat #guestblog #lawℴ #logicbomb #malware

Developer guilty of using kill switch to sabotage employer's systems

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/developer-guilty-of-using-kill-switch-to-sabotage-employers-systems/

Robert Evans: Democratic Insiders Are Sharing A Warning About Curtis Yarvin, Elon Musk & Neoreactionaries. DNC employees and think tank workers are spreading a document about the Neoreactionary threat to democracy.
#coup #technofascism #InsiderThreat #authoritarianism #neoreactionary
https://shatterzone.substack.com/p/democratic-insiders-are-sharing-a

This petty suggestion is probably an indication that at least one Five Eyes partner has exhibited a rational response to Trump's election and stopped sharing sensitive intelligence. As they all should have last November. It's not like they don't know what a security threat Trump and his goons represent. I'm sure they're only sharing limited intelligence without risk of damage when it's funneled directly to Putin. I mean, of course they are. #intelligence #InsiderThreat #coup #natsec https://www.ft.com/content/2dfa3c11-64a7-49f6-83df-939b8d1cfb8e

#elonmusk has made it clear that he's an active, fast moving threat -- to the United States, to #democracy, to #truth and to #justice across the globe.

His supporters and employees are likewise a threat. Every worker at #SpaceX or #Tesla or any of his companies not looking to leave is an accomplice or actively sabotaging the fascist are threats as well. They should all be treated as an #insiderthreat . Maybe they can be reasoned with, but their continued support of Musk cannot be tolerated.

Essential reading RT @Nonya_Bidniss: The question I wish all Americans were educated & thoughtful enough to ask is: Among Trump's close influencers, who benefits from dismantling the brain trust and infrastructure of what has been for generations the foremost global superpower? This looks like chaos but is not. This is the execution phase of a long term strategic operation. #InsiderThreat #treason #coup #corruption https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1112274/the-foundations-of-americas-prosperity-are-being-dismantled/

Codename: Krasnov

"Mussayev’s claims are by no means the only ones from former KGB officers.

In “American Kompromat,” a 2021 book by Craig Unger, former KGB officer Yuri Shvets claims that Trump had been recruited by Moscow in the 1980s.

“Donald Trump was cultivated as a Russian asset… and proved so willing to parrot anti-Western propaganda that there were celebrations in Moscow,” Shvets told the Guardian in 2021.

Shvets was a KGB major during the 1980s with cover job as a correspondent in Washington for the Soviet news agency TASS. He moved to the US permanently in 1993 and gained American citizenship. He worked as a corporate security investigator and was a partner of Alexander Litvinenko, who was assassinated in London in 2006, according to the Guardian."
#treason #InsiderThreat #coup #corruption https://www.kyivpost.com/post/47630

The question I wish all Americans were educated & thoughtful enough to ask is: Among Trump's close influencers, who benefits from dismantling the brain trust and infrastructure of what has been for generations the foremost global superpower? This looks like chaos but is not. This is the execution phase of a long term strategic operation. #InsiderThreat #treason #coup #corruption https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1112274/the-foundations-of-americas-prosperity-are-being-dismantled/

All democratic countries should have long since stopped sharing any sensitive intelligence with the U.S.; they should immediately stop purchasing or using Starlink and end all subscriptions, scrap the equipment; they should ban U.S. billionaire-owned social media and AI; they should ban purchases from U.S. foreign military sales; and they should be putting demarches on the desks of every U.S. diplomat every day about anything they can think to complain about.

All people in countries outside the U.S. should boycott anything exported from the U.S. in order to force U.S. companies to put pressure on the criminal regime.

The Trump/Musk regime has turned into a full-on extortion machine. It has proven itself an adversary to all former allies and a friend to the most evil regimes. It is replacing the highest ranking military officers with toadies--most worryingly, the top military lawyers who advise the DOD on what is and isn't legal for the military to do. It is carrying out Russian strategic objectives at breakneck speed. This cannot be tolerated by any free nation. The Trump/Musk regime is a national security threat to the U.S. and to the entire free world. #coup #corruption #military #natsec #InsiderThreat

"This whole business of "costs," I fear, is a carefully designed information operation. It is a fact widely known and exploited that Donald Trump has a personal fear of being "ripped off." This known vulnerability is visible when he speaks about Ukraine with a sense of personal grievance or with other high emotion. This weakness is, one must fear, exploited by Putin and others who wish to direct American policy." #InsiderThreat https://snyder.substack.com/p/recoup-the-costs