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[–] vegeta@lemmy.world 56 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Berulis alleged in the affidavit that there attempted logins to NLRB systems from an IP address in Russia in the days after DOGE accessed the systems. He told Reuters Tuesday that the attempted logins apparently included correct username and password combinations but were rejected by location-related conditional access policies.

There's a VPN for that (or maybe the systems don't allow it?)

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 31 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Which... would on further notice say... we only know about failures... so yeah any agents in appropriate locations or VPNs using correct credentials would be effectively undetectable.

[–] vegeta@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago

DOGE: Department of Glasnost Effectiveness

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 26 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Bro no fucking shit.

Play script kiddie games win script kiddie prizes.

Morons.

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

A department of random college kids with unfettered and unmonitored access, who have Marshals to force access to ANYWHERE THEY PLEASE, seems ripe for recruiting by an intelligence agency.

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

One of them left their personal Google calendars on public.

1000% that mitherfucker got tailed, and had the state-level equivalent of a flipper-zero Pegasus his phone or some shit.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 24 points 6 days ago

No shit. Wow who could have seen that coming.

FLASHBACK: Jan 7, 2021: “No shit. Wow who could have seen that coming.”

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 21 points 6 days ago (1 children)

muskrat's goon squad interns are the breach.

[–] GrundlButter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 6 days ago

Exactly. They are by definition unauthorized government contractors accessing sensitive data. Neither executive order nor the words of dictator Donnie can authorize them.

There are no oversight bodies, and the collection, storage, and use of this data is an infosec disaster that they hope is outshined by the infosec disasters their actions have enabled.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 3 points 5 days ago

almost as if all this chaos was conducted behind the scenes by russia through trump and musk.

[–] oxysis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 6 days ago

And in other news fire is hot, house cats are an invasive species, and native grasses are stripped out and replaced foreign grass because it looks greener. More at 11.

[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago