US Government Seeks Medical Records of Trans Youth

“I’m looking implicit my enarthrosis driving home,” a doc whose infirmary was targeted by a subpoena told the Post.

Kristi Noem relocates to subject lodging aft doxxing

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has temporarily moved into unafraid subject lodging aft the determination of her Washington, DC flat was exposed online, triggering what DHS called “vicious doxxing” and a question of decease threats, the New York Post reports. A DHS authoritative said the relocation was indispensable for safety, though Noem continues to wage rent connected her Navy Yard residence.

The determination comes arsenic Noem has pointed to what she describes arsenic a crisp emergence successful unit against ICE agents, citing what it claims to beryllium a astir 1,000 percent uptick successful assaults—figures ICE has not afloat explained and that the Washington Post has questioned for lacking specificity. While DHS has not publically elaborate the sources of the alleged threats against her, Noem has framed them arsenic portion of a broader clime of hostility toward migration enforcement.

Nearly each Fortune 500 steadfast whitethorn person unknowingly hired North Korean IT workers

North Korea has reportedly infiltrated the planetary IT occupation marketplace by posing arsenic distant employees astatine Fortune 500 companies, Axios reports. The operation—backed by groups similar Jasper Sleet and Moonstone Sleet—uses stolen identities and AI-assisted applications to bypass hiring systems and conceal the workers’ existent origins.

The strategy funnels salaries backmost to Pyongyang and raises superior cybersecurity concerns, from intelligence spot theft to the hazard of extortion if the workers are exposed. The Justice Department has announced charges against respective individuals tied to the plot, portion the FBI has conducted raids connected “laptop farms” supporting it, ABC News reports. The Times of India, meanwhile, reported successful June that Microsoft had suspended astir 3,000 Outlook and Hotmail accounts allegedly connected to the scheme.

Earlier this month, WIRED reported connected a related trove of leaked documents obtained by cybersecurity researcher SttyK and presented astatine the Black Hat information conference. The cache provides a uncommon look wrong these North Korean IT idiosyncratic operations, detailing their meticulous occupation tracking, interior quotas, and adjacent glimpses of regular beingness nether adjacent authorities surveillance.

FBI partners with Texas universities connected cybersecurity and infrastructure research

Texas Tech University has signed a probe statement with the FBI focused connected defending cardinal services against cyberattacks and different disruptions, the Midland Reporter-Telegram reports. The concern volition reportedly assistance the bureau entree to Tech’s Critical Infrastructure Security Institute, which studies vulnerabilities successful the powerfulness grid, h2o systems, communications networks, and subject facilities.

Angelo State University volition besides lend entree to its cybersecurity programs and Regional Security Operations Center, wherever students bid portion monitoring real-world networks in West Texas. University leaders and FBI officials said the woody is meant to crook world probe into applicable tools and grow the pipeline of graduates prepared for defence and cybersecurity roles.

The propulsion to grow probe partnerships, however, contrasts with reporting successful the New York Times this week that the FBI whitethorn beryllium moving distant from its accepted relation arsenic an quality agency, with plans to little recruiting standards and absorption much connected thoroughfare crime. Critics accidental that displacement risks leaving the bureau with little capableness for complex, method cases, adjacent arsenic it seeks extracurricular expertise done agreements similar the 1 with Texas Tech.

Google issues exigency Chrome information update

Google has pushed an urgent information update for its Chrome browser, urging users worldwide—estimated successful the billions—to instal the spot immediately, The Sun reports. The update addresses aggregate vulnerabilities, including the high‑severity CVE‑2025‑8901 successful Chrome’s ANGLE graphics engine, which could let attackers to hijack devices simply by luring users to a malicious webpage.

Although there’s nary grounds of immoderate real‑world exploitation yet, Google emphasizes that the hazard remains until the update is installed and the browser is restarted. The fixes are rolling retired crossed each large platforms—Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS—and Google advises users to use them promptly to enactment protected.