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The US DOJ says at least two DOGE employees accessed Social Security data that was off-limits under a court ruling and shared agency data on third-party servers (April Rubin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/20/doge-employees-social-security-inform…

DOGE employees may have improperly accessed social security data, DOJ says
It's a stunning admission from the Trump administration, after it battled in court over DOGE's rights to access and use Social Security data .

How Sandia Labs’ Chrisma Jackson protects nuclear secrets from hackers around the clock
https://www.abqjournal.com/business/how-sandia-labs-chrisma-jackson-protects-nuclear-secrets-from-hackers-around-the-clock…

How Sandia Labs’ Chrisma Jackson protects nuclear secrets from hackers around the clock
Chrisma Jackson, Sandia National Laboratories’ top cybersecurity director, discusses protecting nuclear weapons data from constant threats and how her team defends against sophisticated attacks around the clock.

A massive WhatsApp security flaw exposed the phone number of almost every user on the planet
– despite the fact that parent company Meta had been alerted to the vulnerability way back in 2017.
Security researchers were able to use what they described as a “simple” exploit to extract a total of 3.5 billion phone numbers from the messaging service …
The researchers say that if the same exploit had been used by bad actors, the result would have been “the largest data leak in …

WhatsApp security flaw exposed 3.5B phone numbers – inc yours
A massive WhatsApp security flaw exposed the phone number of almost every user on the planet – despite the fact...

Jugendschutz: OpenAI und Anthropic erweitern Sicherheit
Anthropic schätzt künftig das Alter der Claude-Nutzer. Bei OpenAI ist Sicherheit neuerdings die oberste Priorität.
https://www.hei…

Secrets of 800-year-old Chinese Mummy’s Excellent Preservation Revealed https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/secrets-of-800-year-old-chinese-mummys-excellent-preservation-revealed/

Secrets of 800-year-old Chinese Mummy’s Excellent Preservation Revealed
The quality of the preservation was such that his mortal remains emitted a pleasant fragrance 800 years after his entombment. 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/20/social-security-data-doge-whistleblower/
He accused DOGE of risking Social Security data. It cost him his career.

He accused DOGE of risking Social Security data. It cost him his career.
Charles Borges says Musk’s cost-cutting team uploaded a copy of a mainframe database containing the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans.

Two members of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency may have⚠️ accessed and shared Social Security numbers
-- in an effort to help an advocacy group🔥 “overturn election results in certain States” last year,
according to court documents. 
The revelation, which was first reported by Politico, comes as part of a series of corrections to previous testimony by top Social Security Administration officials
related to legal battles over DOGE’s access to Social Secu…

Trump administration admits DOGE may have misused Americans' Social Security data | TechCrunch
The revelation comes as part of a series of corrections in a legal case over DOGE’s access to Social Security Administration data.

Security company Koi finds browser extensions with 8M total installs that collected users' conversations with AI chatbots and sold them for marketing use (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/1…

Browser extensions with 8 million users collect extended AI conversations
The extensions, available for Chromium browsers, harvest full AI conversations over months.

Microsoft warns that Copilot Actions in Windows, now in beta and off by default, can infect devices and pilfer data, prompting concern from security researchers (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/

Critics scoff after Microsoft warns AI feature can infect machines and pilfer data
Integration of Copilot Actions into Windows is off by default, but for how long?

Seems like the funeral industry in Korea has failed to meet its cybersecurity requirements. Gotta wonder if this is true everywhere. (not that most organizations aren't bad at cyber -- they are -- but haven't read much about the funeral industry).
Exclusive: Funeral Industry Faces Security Gaps as Top Firms Lack Key Certifications

Exclusive: Funeral Industry Faces Security Gaps as Top Firms Lack Key Certifications
Exclusive: Funeral Industry Faces Security Gaps as Top Firms Lack Key Certifications Despite managing sensitive data of millions, funeral companies remain exempt from information security regulations, raising concerns over data protection and ransomware risks