This is bad: > F5, a Seattle-based maker of networking software, disclosed the breach on > Wednesday. F5 said a “sophisticated” threat group working for an undisclosed > nation-state government had surreptitiously and persistently dwelled in its > network over a “long-term.” Security researchers who have responded to similar > intrusions in the past took the language to mean the hackers were inside the > F5 network for years. > > During that time, F5 said, the hackers took control of the network segment the > company uses to create and distribute updates for BIG IP, a line of server > appliances that F5 ...

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 security are profound. First, it was reported that people associated with the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) had accessed the US Treasury computer system, giving them the ability to collect data on and potentially control the department’s roughly ...