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IndependentKrebs

Who is the DOGE and X Technician Branden Spikes?

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2025 00:54:40 +0000

At 49, Branden Spikes isn’t just one of the oldest technologists who has been involved in Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). As the current director of information technology at X/Twitter and an early hire at PayPal, Zip2, Tesla and SpaceX, Spikes is also among Musk’s most loyal employees. Here’s a closer look at this trusted Musk lieutenant, whose Russian ex-wife was once married to Elon’s cousin.

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IndependentKrebs

Teen on Musk’s DOGE Team Graduated from ‘The Com’

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2025 00:32:53 +0000

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.

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MalwareBytesSecurity

Twitter security under scrutiny after former executive turns whistleblower

Categories: News

Tags: Twitter

Tags: Zatko

Tags: Mudge

Tags: L0pht

Tags: Cult of the dead cow

Tags: Infrastructure

Tags: bots

Tags: Elon Musk

Tags: FTC

Tags: SEC

Tags: whistleblower

Former Twitter head of security and ethical hacker Peiter Mudge Zatko has alleged some serious problems about the social media giant.

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