Russ Handorf, who served in the #FBI for a decade in various #cybersecurity roles, also reviewed Berulis' extensive technical forensic records & analysis….
"All of this is alarming," he said. "If this was a publicly traded company, I would have to report this [breach] to the Securities and Exchange Commission…."
For #cybersecurity professionals, a failure to log activity is a cardinal sin & contradicts best practices as recommended by the National Institute of Standards & Technology [#NIST] & the #DHS's #CISA, as well as the #FBI & the #NSA.
"That was a huge red flag," said Berulis. "That's something that you just don't do. It violates every core concept of security & best practice."
The #whistleblower believes that the suspicious activity warrants further investigation by agencies w/more resources, like #CISA or the #FBI.
#Labor #law experts…fear that if the data gets out, it could be abused, including by private companies w/cases before the agency that might get insights into damaging testimony, #union leadership, #legal strategies & internal data on competitors — #Musk's #SpaceX among them….
Ooof 
European Commission takes aim at end-to-end #encryption and proposes #Europol become an #EU #FBI
https://therecord.media/european-commission-takes-aim-encryption-europol-fbi-proposal
The #Trump administration’s demand for loyalty, as well as its removal of prosecutors & #FBI officials deemed not supportive of the president’s agenda, goes against that tradition, outside analysts said. So too does #Trump’s directive that #PamBondi “seek sanctions” against attorneys & law firms that the administration believes are engaging in “frivolous, unreasonable & vexatious litigation against *the United States* [trump].” #law #ethics #felon47
Law enforcement agents from the #FBI, the #DEA, the #ATF, & #DHS have been given a list of questions to ask the minors & their sponsors during the *welfare checks*….The form directs agents to question sponsors about who asked them to sponsor the child, if any payment was made during the sponsor process, what info they provided in their application, whether the sponsor has ever been arrested, where the sponsors do their banking & where the sponsor works.
#DHS has enlisted the #FBI & other #criminal law enforcement agencies in recent weeks to conduct *welfare checks* on #children & young people who came to the United States without their parents, alarming advocates who worry it’s an effort to target them for #deportation or scare them.
#Trump admin officials say they want to protect young migrants from trafficking & violence. Advocates worry they’re being targeted for #deportation.
#immigration #law #AbuseOfPower
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/04/10/trump-migrant-kids-welfare-checks/
→ The shocking farright agenda behind the surveillance #tech used by #ICE and the #FBI
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/clearview-ai-immigration-ice-fbi-surveillance-facial-recognition-hoan-ton-that-hal-lambert-trump/
“#Clearview is already well positioned to capitalize on #Trump’s #xenophobic plans.”
“#Immigrants aren’t the only people at #risk. […] "It creates a really disturbingly powerful #tool for #police that can #identify nearly every person at a #protest or a reproductive #health facility or a house of #worship with just #photos of those people’s #faces" […]”
Today in Labor History April 10, 1947: FBI agents visited Ronald Reagan (then president of the Screen Actors Guild) and his wife Jane Wyman, accusing them of belonging to a communist front group. To prove his loyalty, Reagan agreed to become a secret informer and went on to have a long and illustrious career as an anti-communist, union-busting, trickle-down asshole.
Trump just ordered the DOJ to investigate Trump's own former head of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (#CISA), Chris Krebs. Krebs's primary sin appears to have been making public statements that the 2024 election was the most secure in history because almost all votes were recorded on paper ballots.
Worth noting that since Nixon it has been an important norm that the president has no say in who does or doesn't get investigated by #DOJ and #FBI. I don't think its much of an exaggeration to describe attempting to purge your own former officials as at least mildly Stalinist - maybe "Stalinish" is the right word.
cc: @briankrebs
Maybe swapping-in someone with the faintest bit of f*cking clue
#KashPatel removed as acting #ATF director, replaced by #Army Secretary
#FBI Director Kash Patel was quietly removed as the Acting Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives & replaced by US Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll, four people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.
#law #LawEnforcement #Trump #Chaos
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/kash-patel-removed-acting-atf-director-replaced-by-army-secretary-sources-say-2025-04-09/
Luke O’Brien: The Shocking Far-Right Agenda Behind the Facial Recognition Tech Used by #ICE and the #FBI: Thousands of newly obtained documents show that #Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the #tRump administration.
#AI #immigration #facialrecognition #farright
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/clearview-ai-immigration-ice-fbi-surveillance-facial-recognition-hoan-ton-that-hal-lambert-trump/
"Clearview is already well positioned to capitalize on Trump’s xenophobic plans. Today, one of the company’s top customers is US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a relationship cemented during Joe Biden’s presidency, as the agency inked bigger deals with the startup. Under the Biden administration, ICE records show, the agency deployed Clearview widely, even as officials there charged with monitoring the technology were in the dark about how it was being used and by whom. As the agency executes Trump’s emboldened mission—“Border Czar” Tom Homan has vowed to unleash “shock and awe” against undocumented immigrants—the dragnet surveillance outlined by Ton-That during the company’s earliest years may already be underway. (ICE did not respond to a request for comment.)
During Biden’s presidency, the trappings of oversight still existed. But Trump has fired many of the inspectors general who review the use of technology such as Clearview and guard against abuse. And Trump’s early actions have shown his administration has little regard for the legal, congressional, and constitutional guardrails that have constrained his predecessors.
Immigrants aren’t the only people at risk. With Trump pursuing “retribution” against his political enemies, Clearview offers a range of frightening applications. “It creates a really disturbingly powerful tool for police that can identify nearly every person at a protest or a reproductive health facility or a house of worship with just photos of those people’s faces,” says Cahn."
I wrote up a quick #blog about making a #FOIA request to the #FBI through their web portal, the basics of how to make a request, how to write the request itself and tips on making sure that your request gets processed. While this blog is specific to the FBI the tips could be used for other agencies.
https://realhackhistory.org/2025/04/07/how-to-foia-with-an-example-from-hacking-history/
#GiftArticle
by Mike Schmidt
When #Trump returned to office, his rivals & #law enforcement ofcls feared he would follow through on his pledges to use the #DOJ & #FBI to investigate & even imprison perceived enemies.
But since winning re-election, Trump’s retribution campaign has turned out to be far more expansive, efficient & creative than anticipated. It has also been less reliant on the justice system.
#RevengePolitics #AbuseOfPower #tyranny #WeaponizationOfGovernment
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/us/politics/trump-biden-law-firms-revenge.html?unlocked_article_code=1.904.8-XE.5u9z6MqBgEoF&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
day of mourning for victims of 
recent attack on Kryvyi Rih
advanced near Kamianka, Novolyubivka and Toretsk
bombed office building in #Kyiv housing Ukrainian and state international broadcasters
bombed apartment blocks in #Kupiansk
This week, successfully stopped 450+ drones and 15 missiles
updates to missiles are relayed to allies for air defence system updates
neo-Nazi terrorist group led by former #FBI & #Pentagon employee living in called for targeted attacks on
