“I cannot believe that we’re seeing command injection vulnerabilities in 2024 in any products, let alone a secure remote access product that’s supposed to have additional vetting for use by the US government,” says Jake Williams, vice president of research and development at the cybersecurity consultancy Hunter Strategy and a former NSA hacker. “They are […]
The US Treasury Department suffered a “major” security incident after a China state-sponsored hacker broke into the third-party remote management software it uses, as reported earlier by The New York Times. In a letter to lawmakers seen by The Vergethe Treasury Department said BeyondTrust, the company behind its remote management software, notified the agency of […]
The statement seemed to offer an assurance that other vaccines were not subject to the new restrictions. “Changes regarding seasonal vaccines like COVID and influenza do not change the Department’s policy or messaging regarding childhood immunizations,” it read. This flu season, the health department has reportedly canceled standard vaccination events and clinics. On social media, […]
Concealing some of the information on job applications led to more women being hired.Credit: Christopher Ames/Getty In 2017, when Sherri Christian returned to her institution after a year-long sabbatical, she looked around the biochemistry department and realized that she was the last female hire, seven years earlier. At the time, there were 19 members, just […]
During the first Trump administration, the Justice Department launched four sprawling leak investigations that ultimately targeted two Democrats in Congress, dozens of congressional staffers from both parties, and eight reporters at three national outlets, as described in a report from the top DOJ watchdog on Tuesday. The Justice Department’s inspector general found prosecutors never notified […]
Harmeet Dhillon — one of California’s most prominent Republican Party operatives, a cultural crusader against “woke” politics and a fervent champion of President-elect Donald Trump — was named Monday by Trump to a top civil rights post in the U.S. Department of Justice. If confirmed, Dhillon would be the second woman to lead the Department […]
The Department of Justice building Tierney L. Cross/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Tierney L. Cross/Getty Images The Justice Department’s internal watchdog found no evidence of political motivation by federal prosecutors who subpoenaed the communication records of two Democratic members of Congress, congressional staffers as well as reporters as part of leak investigations during the […]
Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., took aim at Secretary of State Antony Blinken after it was reported that the State Department held therapy sessions for employees who were upset by President-elect Trump’s election victory. “I am concerned that the Department is catering to federal employees who are personally devastated by the normal functioning of American democracy […]
The Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) has agreed to cancel its requirement for schools to enforce teaching guidelines that were deemed “woke” in a recently settled lawsuit. Pennsylvania officials were requiring schools to adopt a set of instructions on how to approach teaching under their “Culturally-Relevant and Sustaining Education Program Framework Guidelines” (CR-SE). The guidelines […]
In the two weeks since Donald Trump was reelected president, he’s tapped a string of individuals to serve as second-term advisers and cabinet members whose common thread could be summed up by four words: What the actual fuck. Trump wants to put a rabid anti-vaxxer in charge of the nation’s health, named a man accused […]
