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They fired the people who might've prevented that. https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/11/doge-axes-cisa-red-team-staffers-amid-ongoing-federal-cuts/ https://techcr
by ceejayoz 6mo ago
They fired the people who might've prevented that.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/11/doge-axes-cisa-red-team-staffers-amid-ongoing-federal-cuts/ https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/11/doge-axes-cisa-red-team-st...
> 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.
- parineum 6mo agoNot posting secrets to public GitHub repos doesn't need red teaming.
- ceejayoz 6mo agoA red team might well notice that the build process doesn't check for accidentally committed secrets.
- gumby271 6mo agoAnd yet, here we are.
- jnovek 6mo agoStoring a bunch of passwords in a plain-text list that an individual can access violates zero-trust AND least-privilege which I think a red team might have some opinions on.
- wil421 6mo agoAt my job the commits wouldn’t have even made it to our private GitHub repo. The scanners would’ve rejected it when you tried to push a commit. They find keys and tokens all the time.