Matt Muller

@matt.buildingsecops.com

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Cybersecurity tinkerer by day, wine and cheese tinkerer by night. Security @ Datadog | ex-Coinbase Security, Tines

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KrebsonSecurity Teen on Musk's DOGE Team Graduated from 'The Com' February 7, 2025 Wired reported this week that a 19-year-old working for Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was given access to sensitive US government systems even though his past association with cybercrime communities should have precluded him from gaining the necessary security clearances to do so. As today's story explores, the DOGE teen is a former denizen of 'The Com,' an archipelago of Discord and Telegram chat channels that function as a kind of distributed cybercriminal social network for facilitating instant collaboration.
A screenshot of FEC data listing payments made to the consultancy Mothership Strategies. For example, a $280,000 payment made on 10/16/2024.
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A screenshot from the 1Password browser extension with a tutorial on "learning to save and fill logins while you use the internet."