No land in sight. LinkedIn.com/Pulse article. Ruben Santamarta’s continuing look at the Spanish blackout. Pull quote: “Please note that, obviously, I did not attempt to gain unauthorized access. However, the user interface is accessible without any form of authentication and was even indexed by Google, as anyone can verify. Through it, the actual owners of the assets managed by NEXUS can view everything related to their plants, including dispatch and operating instructions received from REE (if any). I strongly hope this is merely a read-only front-end, and that there are no privileged accounts capable of issuing commands to the plants via this publicly accessible interface.”
Exclusive: Hacker who breached communications app used by Trump aide stole data from across US government. Reuters.com article. Pull quote: “Jake Williams, a former National Security Agency cyber specialist, said that, even if the intercepted text messages were innocuous, the wealth of metadata - the who and when of the leaked conversations and chat groups - posed a counterintelligence risk.
"Even if you don't have the content, that is a top-tier intelligence access," said Williams, now vice president of research and development at cybersecurity firm Hunter Strategy.”
FDD Uncovers Likely Chinese Intelligence Operation Targeting Recently Laid-Off U.S. Government Employees. FDD.org article. Pull quote: “After documenting this network, this report recommends several mitigation measures that the public and private sectors can employ to proactively detect and respond to these types of operations. While federal employees who were recently laid off should exercise heightened vigilance, the U.S. government should work to increase Beijing’s costs and deny it the benefits of conducting online targeting operations. Most importantly, the government should work with job recruiting websites and social media platforms to monitor suspicious activity more aggressively, while Congress should conduct oversight to ensure this effort is effective.”
Wealthy gain, low-income people lose from GOP megabill, analysis finds. Politico.com articlew. Pull quote: “The [CBO] analysis, requested by top Democrats, gives fuel to Democrats’ attacks on the bill that it would lead to gains for wealthy Americans while taking away benefits for lower-income people.”
Pipeline Safety: Editorial Change To Reflect the Name Change of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Federal Register PHMSA final rule. Summary: “As directed by the Executive order of January 20, 2025, “Restoring Names that Honor American Greatness,” PHMSA is amending its regulations to change the name of the body of water known previously as the “Gulf of Mexico” to the “Gulf of America.””
Terminology Relating to Sex; Technical Amendments. Federal Register, TSA final rule. Replacing the word ‘gender’ with the word ‘sex in multiple places in TSA regulations; complying with EO 14168. Summary: “This document makes nomenclature changes to sections of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) administered by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). This action is necessary to conform with the Executive order of January 20, 2025 (Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government).”
Pipeline Safety: Repair Criteria for Hazardous Liquid and Gas Transmission Pipelines. Federal Register PHMSA advanced notice of proposed rulemaking. Summary: “PHMSA is publishing this advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM) to solicit stakeholder feedback on potential opportunities to improve the cost-effectiveness of its repair requirements for gas transmission (49 CFR part 192) and hazardous liquid or carbon dioxide (49 CFR part 195) pipelines. Many of those requirements—particularly for hazardous liquid and carbon dioxide pipelines—have not been updated in over two decades, and others do not fully account for recent advancements in pipeline safety technology and best practices or the maturation of PHMSA's regulatory regime. PHMSA is also seeking stakeholder feedback on authorizing risk-based inspection procedures for determining the inspection interval for in-service breakout tanks under part 195. Materials obtained from this ANPRM will inform a forthcoming notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) in this proceeding.” Comments due July 21st, 2025.
‘Complete Disarray’: 15,000 Employees Resign, Sparking Crisis. NewsBreak.com article. Pull quote: “Employees have cited a climate of surveillance and fear as reasons for their resignations. USDA plans to exempt 53 critical roles from the hiring freeze, complicating staffing efforts amid significant resignations.”
Supreme Court Shuts Down Trump. NewsBreak.com article. Pull quote: “"The Government has represented elsewhere that it is unable to provide for the return of an individual deported in error to a prison in El Salvador where it is alleged that detainees face indefinite detention," they stated. "The [Texas] detainees' interests at stake are accordingly particularly weighty. Under these circumstances, notice roughly 24 hours before removal, devoid of information about how to exercise due process rights to contest that removal, surely does not pass muster.”
EO 14298 - Modifying Reciprocal Tariff Rates To
Reflect Discussions With the People's Republic of China. Federal
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