DOGE

Eve Hill represents a coalition of leading disability rights advocates along with individual plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the Social Security Administration and DOGE to stop unlawful cuts to social security services. – Go Health Pro

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Eve Hill represents a coalition of leading disability rights advocates along with individual plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the Social Security Administration and DOGE to stop unlawful cuts to social security services. – Go Health Pro

The National Federation of the Blind (NFB), the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD), Deaf Equality, the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, and Massachusetts Senior Action Council, along with individual plaintiffs, filed a federal lawsuit today against the Social Security Administration (SSA), Acting Commissioner Leland Dudek, DOGE Acting Administrator Amy Gleason, … Read more

What could possibly go wrong? DOGE to rapidly rebuild Social Security codebase. – Go Health Pro

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What could possibly go wrong? DOGE to rapidly rebuild Social Security codebase. – Go Health Pro

Like many legacy government IT systems, SSA systems contain code written in COBOL, a programming language created in part in the 1950s by computing pioneer Grace Hopper. The Defense Department essentially pressured private industry to use COBOL soon after its creation, spurring widespread adoption and making it one of the most widely used languages for … Read more

DOGE axes CISA ‘red team’ staffers amid ongoing federal cuts – Go Health Pro

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DOGE axes CISA ‘red team’ staffers amid ongoing federal cuts – Go Health Pro

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has fired more than a hundred employees working for the U.S. government’s cybersecurity agency CISA, including “red team” staffers, two people affected by the layoffs told TechCrunch.  The people, who asked not to be named, said affected employees were axed immediately when their network access was revoked with … Read more

Who is the DOGE and X Technician Branden Spikes? – Krebs on Security – Go Health Pro

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Who is the DOGE and X Technician Branden Spikes? – Krebs on Security – Go Health Pro

At 49, Branden Spikes isn’t just one of the oldest technologists who has been involved in Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). As the current director of information technology at X/Twitter and an early hire at PayPal, Zip2, Tesla and SpaceX, Spikes is also among Musk’s most loyal employees. Here’s a closer look at … Read more

DOGE as a National Cyberattack – Go Health Pro

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DOGE as a National Cyberattack In the span of just weeks, the US government has experienced what may be the most consequential security breach in its history—not through a sophisticated cyberattack or an act of foreign espionage, but through official orders by a billionaire with a poorly defined government role. And the implications for national … Read more