🔓 Hackers exposed 40,000 DHS employees, including undercover agents

A hacktivist group calling itself the Department of Peace exposed names and contact details for more than 40,000 DHS employees and contractors, including some undercover investigators.

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) accounts for roughly 21,000 records and ICE nearly 7,000; the hackers claim they subverted DHS’s single sign-on system, which vendor Okta denies.

DHS called it a potential breach and is working to contain it, while the leak follows similar attacks on the FBI, widening exposure for federal law enforcement personnel.

SpaceX restricted Ukraine’s Starshield military satellite service for 10 days starting Oct. 14, leaving operators unable to guide fast drones during a Russian missile barrage.

Germany, which funds Ukraine’s access, and Canada protested, while senators pressed SpaceX and the Pentagon before full service was restored Oct. 24.

A former senior US military official says the episode will speed foreign Starlink alternatives, with Eutelsat OneWeb, SES, and Iridium positioned to gain government business.

A new Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) report warns China may field space-based directed energy weapons capable of threatening satellites by the late 2020s.

China’s intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance fleet tops 510 satellites, more than tripling since 2018, and Beijing already fields ground-based directed energy weapons that can damage satellites.

Orbital directed energy attacks would be hard to attribute and could hit multiple targets quickly, arriving as the US openly acknowledges its own on-orbit weapons.

Fluor Marine Propulsion received a $2.4B cost-plus-fixed-fee modification for Naval Nuclear Laboratory work across Pittsburgh, Schenectady, and Idaho Falls.

The Navy also raised a shared ceiling by $98.1M for submarine safety work and awarded Vigor Marine $42.8M to overhaul the oiler USNS Henry J. Kaiser.

The Kaiser overhaul drew only one bid and runs Dec. 15 to April 13, 2027, while just $597,900 of the nuclear award was obligated upfront.

The Army added Camp Atterbury and Muscatatuck Training Center in Indiana to its Permissive Test Range Expansion Initiative for commercial drone and counter-drone testing.

Atterbury offers more than 34,000 acres with restricted airspace up to 40,000 feet, while Muscatatuck’s 1,000 acres feature configurable urban infrastructure.

Vendors book through testrange.army.mil with an Army Test and Evaluation Command concierge team, part of a push to cut test waits that could run 12 to 18 months.

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