DOGE to Fired CISA Staff: Email Us Your Personal Data (Krebs on Security)

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A message posted on Monday to the homepage of the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is the latest exhibit in the Trump administration’s continued disregard for basic cybersecurity protections. The message instructed recently-fired CISA employees to get in touch so they can be rehired and then immediately placed on leave, asking employees to send their Social Security number or date of birth in a password-protected email attachment — presumably with the password needed to view the file included in the body of the email. The homepage of cisa.gov as it appeared on Monday and Tuesday afternoon. On March 13, a Maryland district court judge ordered the Trump administration to reinstate more than 130 probationary CISA employees who were fired last month. On Monday, the administration announced that those…
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Announcing OSV-Scanner V2: Vulnerability scanner and remediation tool for open source (Google Online Security Blog)

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Posted by Rex Pan and Xueqin Cui, Google Open Source Security Team In December 2022, we released the open source OSV-Scanner tool, and earlier this year, we open sourced OSV-SCALIBR. OSV-Scanner and OSV-SCALIBR, together with OSV.dev are components of an open platform for managing vulnerability metadata and enabling simple and accurate matching and remediation of known vulnerabilities. Our goal is to simplify and streamline vulnerability management for developers and security teams alike. Today, we're thrilled to announce the launch of OSV-Scanner V2.0.0, following the announcement of the beta version. This V2 release builds upon the foundation we laid with OSV-SCALIBR and adds significant new capabilities to OSV-Scanner, making it a comprehensive vulnerability scanner and remediation tool with broad support for formats and ecosystems.  What’s new Enhanced Dependency Extraction with OSV-SCALIBR…
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