Meanwhile, according to the disclosure and records of internal communications, 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.
The employees grew concerned that the NLRB’s confidential data could be exposed, particularly after they started detecting suspicious log-in attempts from an IP address in Russia, according to the disclosure. Eventually, the disclosure continued, the IT department launched a formal review of what it deemed a serious, ongoing security breach or potentially illegal removal of personally identifiable information.
So wait, the IP address from Russia logged in with correct username and password? Isn’t that insane?
And they disabled 2FA. Lmao wtf.
Someone had disabled controls that would prevent insecure or unauthorized mobile devices from logging on to the system without the proper security settings. There was an interface exposed to the public internet, potentially allowing malicious actors access to the NLRB’s systems. Internal alerting and monitoring systems were found to be manually turned off. Multifactor authentication was disabled. And Berulis noticed that an unknown user had exported a “user roster,” a file with contact information for outside lawyers who have worked with the NLRB.
My philosophy with news here on Privacy Guides is that both sides are just as privacy friendly and unfriendly as the other. As much as you may disagree with the political leanings with a post, you are more than welcome to post any articles here as long as it is on-topic.
Now for everyone, let’s keep discussion on-topic and not turn this into political discussion. Thank you
Indeed. If Tulsi Gabbard for some reason hurls Section 702 into a trash can, I would love to hear about it. Will it happen? Probably not. But I would be happy to see it on my RSS feed and post it here.
So far, everything that is happening at Doge is sloppy at best. Outright dangerous at most. Nothing wrong with reading news about it regardless of your political beliefs.
Did you create an account just to say this? This is some serious journalism and accusing the messenger instead of focusing on the content is a classical playbook in politics.
At this point, can you just link the refutation source as is and leave the angry political tone at the door? No one here is upset, we the community just don’t like reading angry vindictive things, we get enough of that on every other platform.
We are trying to keep a civil website and don’t like unfounded accusations. If you make bold accusations, this should be backed up with serious and verifiable proofs.
The censoring isn’t even being done just by mods. The community is reporting you, then mods are taking action.
I implore you to just post the source of your counter argument and leave the name calling out of it. Being mean to others and name calling is just rude. There is no reason to be hateful here.
I’ve reported your post for the following community guideline violation:
Always attack the argument, never the person.
If you have further complaints, please directly message the staff than de-rail discussion. I’ll ask Mods to clean up this thread so it can be a fruitful discussion.