www.theregister.com

... On March 11, while examining logs, Berulis says he noticed a huge spike in outside login attempts being blocked - in particular one with an IP address that has the Primorskiy Krai region in Russia's Far East listed as its location.

The person was trying to log into an account that had been set up for one of the DOGE aides, Berulis claimed. The login attempts started within 15 minutes of the account being established, and used the correct username and password, he told Congress. The login attempts were blocked because the agency does not allow access to its systems from overseas. ...

And now, the US seems to be handing the security of the Country to Mr Musk?

Am I the only one who seems an issue here?

OpEd: Putin plans to make the West destroy itself (2020)
www.spectator.co.uk

... here's only one person who'll be genuinely pleased with the Intelligence and Security Committee's Russia report, finally revealed on Tuesday, and that's Vladimir Putin.

Russia emerges as an amorphous and formidable enemy -- all the more so because the inconclusive and much-redacted report contains next to no substantiated allegations.

Instead Russia appears as a phantom, unknowable menace, and this will spawn a thousand conspiracy theories far more corrosive and confusing to our politics than any Moscow-generated Twitter-storm or document leak. ...

OpEd: Putin plans to destroy America from within (2017)
www.timesonline.com

... Valery Gerasimov is the Russian general who devised their new geopolitical strategy of hybrid warfare. This is an integrated system of cyberattacks, subversion, espionage and propaganda aimed at undermining Russia's adversaries without firing a single shot.

While Americans bankrupt themselves so as to re-fight the last war, it literally sneaks in the back door. It now seeks to use all of our own weaknesses, hypocrisies and momentum against us. Meanwhile, most Americans don't seem to realize that such a war even exists.

Honed in western Europe, its divisiveness is everywhere in our authoritarian age of President Donald Trump. Vladimir Putin's goal is the political demise of our very democracy itself.

The U.S. constitution was drafted by men who knew all the dark powers of authoritarianism, and the many challenges posed in building any real democracy. World history has documented the eagerness of leaders to impose their own beliefs as God's law. Racial, social, economic and political history shows the eagerness of strong-willed groups to dominate their neighbors. ...