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NEW FINDINGS THIS week showed that a misconfigured platform used by the Department of Homeland Security left sensitive national security information—including data related to the surveillance of Americans—exposed and accessible to thousands of people. Meanwhile, 15 New York officials were arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the New York Police Department this week in or around 26 Federal Plaza—where ICE detains people in what courts have ruled are unsanitary conditions.
Russia conducted conspicuous military exercises testing hypersonic missiles near NATO borders, stoking tensions in the region after the Kremlin had already recently flown drones into Polish and Romanian airspace. Scammers have a new tool for sending spam texts, known as “SMS blasters,” that can send up to 100,000 texts per hour while evading telecom company anti-spam measures. Scammers deploy rogue cell towers that trick people's phones into connecting to the malicious devices so they can send the texts directly and bypass filters. And a pair of flaws in Microsoft's Entra ID identity and access management system, which have been patched, could have been exploited to access virtually all Azure customer accounts—a potentially catastrophic disaster.
