CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on Github – Krebs on Security



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Holy crap. This is so bad. 

The GitHub repository that Valadon flagged was named “Private-CISA,” and it harbored a vast number of internal CISA/DHS credentials and files, including cloud keys, tokens, plaintext passwords, logs and other sensitive CISA assets.

Valadon said the exposed CISA credentials represent a textbook example of poor security hygiene, noting that the commit logs in the offending GitHub account show that the CISA administrator disabled the default setting in GitHub that blocks users from publishing SSH keys or other secrets in public code repositories.

“Passwords stored in plain text in a csv, backups in git, explicit commands to disable GitHub secrets detection feature,” Valadon wrote in an email. “I honestly believed that it was all fake before analyzing the content deeper. This is indeed the worst leak that I’ve witnessed in my career. It is obviously an individual’s mistake, but I believe that it might reveal internal practices.”

One of the exposed files, titled “importantAWStokens,” included the administrative credentials to three Amazon AWS GovCloud servers. Another file exposed in their public GitHub repository — “AWS-Workspace-Firefox-Passwords.csv” — listed plaintext usernames and passwords for dozens of internal CISA systems. According to Caturegli, those system included one called “LZ-DSO,” which appears short for “Landing Zone DevSecOps,” the agency’s secure code development environment.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/05/cisa-admin-leaked-aws-govcloud-keys-on-github/

The Nikola One Fraud & the Trump Bribe



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A man with no working truck convinced Wall Street he had built the next Tesla. His company hit $30 BILLION. All he did was push it down a hill with no engine.

> Trevor Milton founded Nikola in 2014, named after the same inventor as Tesla. 

> The goal was to build hydrogen powered trucks that would make diesel obsolete. He had no trucks.

> In 2018 he released a promotional video called Nikola One In Motion. It showed a sleek semi truck accelerating smoothly down an open highway.

Investors went wild.

> What nobody knew was that the truck had no engine, no fuel cell, and no propulsion system of any kind.

> Milton's team towed it to the top of a hill, tilted the camera to hide the slope, and let it roll.

> He spent the next four years doing the same thing with words. On podcasts, television and social media.

> Investors were told Nikola could produce its own hydrogen. It could not. They were told the trucks were ready for production. They were not. They were told orders were flooding in. They weren't.

> In June 2020 Nikola went public. Within days the company was worth $30 BILLION, more than Ford.

> Milton's personal stake hit $7.3 BILLION overnight.

> A $32.5 MILLION ranch in Utah followed. A record for the state at the time.

> In September 2020 Hindenburg Research published a report calling Nikola "an intricate fraud" built on "an ocean of lies." Milton resigned within ten days.

> A federal jury convicted him of securities fraud and wire fraud in 2022. Sentenced to four years in prison the following year.

> He never went. He was free on $100 MILLION bail pending appeal.

> He and his wife donated $3.2 MILLION to Donald Trump's 2024 campaign.

> In March 2025 Trump gave him a full pardon. The pardon erased $168 MILLION in restitution to defrauded shareholders.

> Nikola filed for bankruptcy the following month, leaving thousands of investors with nothing.

The company never had a product. The only thing that was real was the $30 BILLION valuation, the $7 BILLION that landed in his pocket and the pardon that made sure none of it had to be returned.

Why would someone take the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA)?



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The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) is taken to rapidly screen for mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and early dementia, evaluating memory, attention, executive functions, and language. It is often used when a patient or family reports memory concerns, to track progression of neurological diseases like Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s, or to assess cognitive decline following a stroke or injury. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

Key Reasons for Taking the MoCA:

• Detecting Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI): It is more sensitive than other tests (like the MMSE) for catching subtle early signs of dementia or MCI, where individuals may have memory or thinking problems but still function independently.
• Screening for Neurodegenerative Diseases: It helps identify dementia related to Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease, Lewy Body Dementia, and Frontotemporal dementia.
• Assessing Executive Functioning: The MoCA covers skills that other tests miss, such as planning, multitasking, and conceptual thinking.
• Neurological Conditions and Injuries: Used for evaluating cognition in cases of stroke, brain tumors, brain metastasis, and traumatic brain injury.
• Monitoring Cognitive Decline: It allows doctors to track changes in a patient's cognitive abilities over time. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]

What the Test Involves:

• Duration: Usually takes about 10 minutes.
• Structure: A 30-point test assessing visuospatial abilities, orientation, memory, and language.
• Scoring: A score of 26 or higher is generally considered normal, while lower scores may indicate impairment. [1, 2, 3]

Example MoCA Test