New, at KrebsOnSecurity.com: Marko Elez, a 25-year-old employee at Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has been granted access to sensitive databases at the U.S. Social Security Administration, the Treasury and Justice departments, and the Department of Homeland Security. So it should fill all Americans with a deep sense of confidence to learn that Mr. Elez over the weekend inadvertently published a private key that allowed anyone to interact directly with more than four dozen large language models (LLMs) developed by Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/07/doge-denizen-marko-elez-leaked-api-key-for-xai/

This is fun. Google Gemini’s “Summarize email” function is vulnerable to invisible prompt injection utilized to deceive users, including with fake security alerts.

#infosec #cybersecurity #blueteam

https://0din.ai/blog/phishing-for-gemini

A look at the recent sea surface temperature trend (annual mean) for the Gulf of Mexico... 🫣

See more at https://zacklabe.com/united-states-climate-indicators/

"While these agents promise to make life easier by allowing users to “put your brain in a jar,” they can also gather valuable—and often sensitive—data. This is a core concern for #Signal, which is trusted by tens of millions of users, including those in government, military, human rights and journalism, for confidential communication and guaranteed #privacy."

https://observer.com/2025/07/signal-meredith-whittaker-agentic-ai-risk/

NEW: Over the weekend, Jack Dorsey launched an open-source chat app called Bitchat, which he promised to be “secure” and “private.”

He then later added a warning that the app not been tested or reviewed for security issues, asking people not to trust it as "it does not necessarily meet its stated security goals."

Security researchers are already finding flaws in it.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/09/jack-dorsey-says-his-secure-new-bitchat-app-has-not-been-tested-for-security/

Good scoop by reporters with the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), who confirmed that Sergio Gor, the director of the White House Office of Presidential Personnel, was born in the former Soviet Union, specifically in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Gor prompted speculation about his origins when he declined to say where he was born, saying only that it was not in Russia.

https://www.occrp.org/en/news/exclusive-top-trump-advisor-sergio-gor-was-born-in-the-soviet-union