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NSA Chief Ousted Amid Trump Loyalty Firing Spree

Plus: Another DOGE operative allegedly has a history in the hacking world, and Donald Trump’s national security adviser apparently had way more Signal chats than previously known.

By Dhruv Mehrotra and Andrew Couts

Deciphering

Cybersecurity Professor Faced China-Funding Inquiry Before Disappearing, Sources Say

By Zeyi Yang, Louise Matsakis, and Caroline Haskins

Vanishing Act

Cybersecurity Professor Mysteriously Disappears as FBI Raids His Homes

By Dan Goodin, Ars Technica

Dark Secrets

An AI Image Generator’s Exposed Database Reveals What People Really Used It For

By Matt Burgess

Security Roundup

Top Trump Officials’ Passwords and Personal Phone Numbers Discovered Online

By Matt Burgess

Check Your Settings

Even More Venmo Accounts Tied to Trump Officials in Signal Group Chat Left Data Public

By Dhruv Mehrotra and Tim Marchman

To the Moon

SignalGate Is Driving the Most US Downloads of Signal Ever

By Andy Greenberg

People You May Know

Mike Waltz Left His Venmo Friends List Public

By Dhruv Mehrotra and Tim Marchman

Off Target

SignalGate Isn’t About Signal

By Andy Greenberg and Lily Hay Newman

Logging On

Using Starlink Wi-Fi in the White House Is a Slippery Slope for US Federal IT

By Lily Hay Newman

Cut and Run

Trump’s Aggression Sours Europe on US Cloud Giants

By Matt Burgess

Clean Break

How to Avoid US-Based Digital Services—and Why You Might Want To

By Violet Blue

(B)add-On

Low-Cost Drone Add-Ons From China Let Anyone With a Credit Card Turn Toys Into Weapons of War

By Lily Hay Newman

Security Roundup

End-to-End Encrypted Texts Between Android and iPhone Are Coming

By Andy Greenberg and Dhruv Mehrotra

Crypto Wars

A New Era of Attacks on Encryption Is Starting to Heat Up

By Matt Burgess

Brute Force

‘People Are Scared’: Inside CISA as It Reels From Trump’s Purge

By Eric Geller

Toxic Traits

The Violent Rise of ‘No Lives Matter’

By Ali Winston

Junk Traffic

What Really Happened With the DDoS Attacks That Took Down X

By Lily Hay Newman

Security Roundup

Cybercriminals Allegedly Used a StubHub Backdoor to Steal Taylor Swift Tickets

By Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess

Fourth Amendment

Trump’s Spy Chief Urged to Declassify Details of Secret Surveillance Program

By Dell Cameron

Loose Cannons

Pentagon Cuts Threaten Programs That Secure Loose Nukes and Weapons of Mass Destruction

By Justin Ling

Search and Destroy

The US Army Is Using ‘CamoGPT’ to Purge DEI From Training Materials

By Jared Keller

Unmasked

US Charges 12 Alleged Spies in China’s Freewheeling Hacker-for-Hire Ecosystem

By Andy Greenberg