All of this would represent a serious threat to national security. Besides, strangely, Apple flatters denies it happened. “We strongly disagree with the claims of a targeted attack on our users,” Apple’s security engineering, Ivan Krstić’s security engineering, wrote in a statement to Wired. Apple noticed the issue that Iverify highlighted in its report, which caused iPhones crashing in certain cases when a message sender changed its own nickname and avatar. But it calls these crashes the result of “conventional software”, not evidence of intended exploitation. (This blanket denies certainly not Apple’s usual response to confirmed iPhone hacking. The company, for example, has processed a hacking company NSO group for its target of Apple clients.)
The result is that what could be a four-alarm fire in the anti-intelligent world is reduced-for now-to a very critical puzzle.
A 22-year-old former intern at the Heritage Foundation with no national security experience was reportedly appointed to a key department of a home security role controlling a major program designed to combat domestic terrorism.
According to Propublica, Thomas Fugate last month assumed leadership of the Center for Programs and Partnerships (CP3), DHS office tasked funding nationwide efforts to prevent politically motivated violence – including school shots and other forms of domestic terrorism.
Fugate, a 2024 graduate of the University of Texas at San Antonio, replaced the former CP3 director, Bill Braniff, a veteran of the army with 20 years of national security experience, which resigned in March after personal courts ordered by the Trump administration.
According to the most recent CP3 report to Congress, the office funded more than 1,100 initiatives aimed at disapproving violent extremism. In recent months, the United States has seen a string of high -profile targeted attacks, including a car bombing in California and shooting two Israeli embassy aid in Washington, DC. Its $ 18 million subsidy program, designed to support local preventive efforts, is said to be now under the supervision of Fugate.
Hacker group names have long been unjustifiable absurdity in the cybersecurity industry. Each threatening intelligence company, in a scientific defense attempt not to make an assumption that they track the same hackers as another company, comes with their own code name for any group they observe. The result is a somewhat nonsense profuso of overlapping name systems based on elements, weather and zoology: “fancy bear” is “forest blizzard” is “apt28” is “strontium.” Now, several major threatening smart players, including Google, Microsoft, Crowdstrike, and Palo Alto Networks, have finally shared enough of their internal research to agree on a glossary, which confirms that they are referring to the same entities. The companies did no, However, agrees to consolidate their name systems into a single taxonomy. So this agreement does not mean the end of sentences in security reporting as “The Hacker group Sandworm, also known as Telebots, Voodoo -Bear, Hades, Iron Viking, Electricity or Coast.” It just means that we reporters of cybersecurity can write that phrase with a little more confidence.
Chris Wade, the founder and CTO of a mobile device inverse engineering company Corellium, had a wild last decades: in 2005, he was convicted of criminal allegations of enabling spammers by providing them with proxy servers and agreed to work undercover for offense while avoiding prison. Then in 2020, he mysteriously received forgiveness from President Donald Trump. He also resolved an important copyright process from Apple. Now his company, which creates virtual images of Android and iOS devices, so that customers can find ways to enter them, is acquired by a telephone-hacking company Cellebrite, a leading legislative entrepreneur, for a $ 200 million significant salary for a hacker who has found on both sides of the law.
