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[–] Pnut@lemm.ee 4 points 2 hours ago

The people that believe in everything the DOGE has to say are the people that don't understand what data is, how it works, or its extraordinary value. I forget which comedian pointed it out, but a small number of creeps at Facebook know:

  • Where you live
  • Where you go
  • When you go to places and how much time you spend
  • How you likely feel
  • How many devices you have and their specs *Who is related to you and how *Etc.

Now think about friending your aunt. Now they have all of that from her too.

If I told you that was the premise of my new company would you be insisting that other people cast aside their instincts and just join? What do you think their goal is? Because it has plainly NOT been making a better world with healthier people. There are many ways to connect. Being trendy is so... Off trend these days.

[–] C1pher@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

No surprise, people at DOGE are clowns.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 13 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Headline lobs it.

Login credentials belonging to an employee at both the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the Department of Government Efficiency have appeared in multiple public leaks from info-stealer malware, a strong indication that devices belonging to him have been hacked in recent years.

Kyle Schutt is a 30-something-year-old software engineer who, according to Dropsite News, gained access in February to a “core financial management system” belonging to the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

[–] Pnut@lemm.ee 1 points 3 hours ago

I have always seen very specific ages in any news article. The fact that someone that had access to the "Federal emergency management agency" and is only confirmed as a "30-something-year-old" (poor grammar by the way) alarms me.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 7 points 11 hours ago
[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 20 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

How do people still get viruses? Nobody I know has legitimately gotten one in like 10 years

[–] deaf_fish@lemm.ee 14 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

In the old days the viruses would just put a skull up on your screen or some other nonsense.

Now the virus hides and they track everything you do and steal all your passwords and banking information.

It's better for them to not go loud. Otherwise they'll be discovered. And the point is to stay hidden as long as possible to collect as much data as possible.

Most people don't know their computers are infected.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I think the question is rather how do you even get infected in the first place?

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 4 points 3 hours ago

Ads are a major vector. Like a pick pocket, they work best when placed among large crowds of people. The more folks you can brush against, the more pockets can be tried in passing. Sooner or later, you will get something.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 11 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Most malware exist to steal your data. Most people are infected with such malware today. They're called apps.

Most free mobile apps today are malware

[–] tfm@europe.pub 8 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Pnut@lemm.ee 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] tfm@europe.pub 1 points 3 hours ago

The weird ones

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 76 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] Pnut@lemm.ee 1 points 3 hours ago

Hey. Easy now. We all know AI is only for financial trading, fucking over your employees to avoid severance and maintain control, or porn. That's it.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I think you're joking, but the most likely way the government will fix this is an AI powered threat detector, like Falcon from CrowdStrike.

Its cancer but they have a lot of federal contracts for their endpoint EDR

[–] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 1 points 4 hours ago

I mean, heuristics and an LLM could be better than either one on its own.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 28 points 1 day ago

ugh, I hate how close this cuts

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 46 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Foreign governments are feasting on the once secure data. I can't imagine the self inflicted damage America has done to itself. I really can't imagine what America's enemies will do with this.

[–] WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 10 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

What could they possibly need to do? Osama Bin Laden illustrated very effectively that all you need to do is give Americans a little bloody nose- the US will happily spend the next 30 years trying to stop the bleeding by stabbing itself in the heart.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 16 points 21 hours ago

They won't need to do much.

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 59 points 1 day ago

user names and passwords for logging in to various accounts belonging to Schutt have been published at least four times since 2023 in logs from stealer malware.

Oof. That's embarrassing. He's been oblviously leaking his credentials for months due to an earlier infection by malware.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 17 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Ars doesn't let me say what I think should happen to all these DOGE traitors anymore, but man they are the fucking worst in every sense.

[–] forrgott@lemm.ee 7 points 21 hours ago

Well, when all is said and done, they're gonna be "loose ends". Not that that really helps much.

[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Convenient. Likely just plausible deniability.

[–] HowAbt2morrow@futurology.today 9 points 20 hours ago

This is it. The, “whoooo? Lil ole meeee? How was I supposed to know?”

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

"move fast and break things"

yeah no that's not what that means

[–] Akasazh@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

The opposite of the morning routine of a porter in the moving industry:

Break fast and move things

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well, I read it as just a description of Fred Durst in the late 90s/Early 00's.

He's rollin rollin rollin rollin, and if his day keeps goin' this way, he's gonna break something tonight!

[–] dai@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

Not the face, not the face!

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 8 points 23 hours ago

Did he install it himself?

Like. Did download it and deploy it on the wrong computer?

[–] Glent@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago
[–] kikutwo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Because of course it is. Just vibe it brah.