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- President Trump picks housing director Bill Pulte to serve as acting DNI.
- Federal watchdog warns of management issues for NIST's NVD.
- Spanish National Police arrest suspect in government doxxing case.
President Trump picks housing director Bill Pulte to serve as acting DNI.
US President Trump announced this morning that Bill Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) and chairman of the mortgage groups Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, will serve as acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI), Axios reports. Current DNI Tulsi Gabbard plans to resign at the end of June. President Trump, in a Truth Social post, cited Pulte's "deep experience managing the most sensitive matters in America, the safety and soundness of the Markets, and over 10 Trillion Dollars at Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac, a substantial increase from where it was just 12 months ago."
Pulte is a controversial pick, having held no previous intelligence-related roles. He will retain his positions as FHFA director and chairman of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, CNBC notes.
Federal watchdog warns of management issues for NIST's NVD.
A report from the US Department of Commerce's inspector general has concluded that NIST's National Vulnerability Database (NVD) is growing increasingly ineffective due to management failures, CyberScoop says. Unprocessed vulnerabilities in the NVD surged from 13,000 in February 2024 to more than 27,000 by the end of 2025, despite NIST's goal to have the backlog cleared by September 2024. The report says "NIST does not have sustainable processes to manage NVD submissions and will be unable to clear the backlog of unprocessed vulnerabilities or prevent future processing delays without significant changes."
The report identified several areas for improvement, including cutting duplicative severity score calculation and streamlining the manual processes for identifying affected products.
Spanish National Police arrest suspect in government doxxing case.
The Spanish National Police has arrested a suspect accused of stealing and leaking information on government employees, BleepingComputer reports. The individual allegedly leaked a massive amount of personal data belonging to workers at the State Attorney General's Office, the National Cybersecurity Institute, the National Police, the Civil Guard, and the National Security Council. The police noted that the nature of the leak carried national security risks.
The police stated, "The investigation, overseen by Madrid Investigative Court No. 22, began after authorities detected the mass dissemination of this data, which created an immediate risk to the security and integrity of both the affected individuals and the institutions themselves. Given the seriousness of the situation, an urgent operation to locate and arrest the perpetrator was launched, culminating last Wednesday, May 27, with the arrest of the perpetrator and a search of his home."
