Posted on 12/10/2016 7:19:23 PM PST by bryan999
The Department of Homeland Security told members of congress Friday that a rogue federal employee may have been responsible for a November hack-attack that targeted the Georgia secretary of state’s system, LifeZette has learned.
On Friday afternoon DHS initiated a conference call with members of Georgia’s congressional delegation to discuss the cyber-attack, a Capitol Hill staffer with knowledge of the call told LifeZette.
DHS officials said on the call that there were two possible explanations for the hack, the source said. Either a malicious third-party mirrored the DHS IP address linked to the hack — or someone within the department executed the attempted infiltration without authorization. DHS is currently investigating both possibilities.
At the invitation of Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA), staff from the House Oversight Committee and Homeland Security Committee also participated on the call, another source with knowledge of the situation confirmed.
The emergency call with the Georgia delegation came in response to a strongly worded letter sent by Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp to Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson on Thursday, on which the entire Georgia delegation to Congress was copied.
“The private-sector security provider that monitors the agency’s firewall detected a large unblocked scan even on November 15 at 8:43 AM. The event was an IP address (216.81.81.80) attempting to scan certain aspects of the Georgia Secretary of State’s infrastructure. The attempt to breach our system was unsuccessful,” Kemp wrote.
“I’m am writing you to ask whether DHS was aware of this attempt and, if so, why DHS was attempting to breach our firewall.”
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Sure! Sure! “Rouge” agents!
I just KNEW it was the Reds!
Lol!
Strange you never hear them mention this as a possibility of the "Russian" hackers.
Well if he was named Vladimir or Alexander then I’m sure that he was a “rogue Russian agent” covertly placed in the DHS!
What horse sht.
That sounds very much like the IRS’s initial explanation for the harassment and delay in approving the tax-exempt status of Tea Party groups: “Just a couple of rogue employees from the Cincinnati office.”
Sure, and rogue employees at the IRS targeted conservatives.
Sure . . .
Lots of rogue agents in obamanation. Joe the Plumber was hit. Lois Lerner. Joe Biden. And now the DHS
DHS has admitted they may have a rogue employee that attempted to hack the Georgia Voter data base. The attack was unsuccessful. Now were there other attempts by this employee ? We’re any of those successful ? Are there other rogue employees ?
For those of us familiar with US gov IT systems, there is no possibility of an anonymous rogue employee. Zero. So that BS won’t walk, and it won’t walk in front of a Congressional Inquiry.
Why don’t we examine Routing logs and find out exactly who it was?
when federal employees get tired of feeding their porn addictions they start hacking??
Perp most likely did not limit him/her self to one hack attempt at one state’s database.
Homeland Security needs to expose the perp and examine all hacks.
No problem, then. We need the name of the rogue employee, his supervisor, and charges should be filed against them immediately.
Avoid the park
And no, I don’t expect any of those things to actually happen. They’ll lie, obfuscate and delay. If by some miracle they do give the responsible parties up, expect them to mysteriously die in accidents rather than have the possibility of testifying who told them to do it.
They have no Idea who used a department computer to run this action?
I call bs or the world’s worst OPSEC
Which is plausible for the clown posse running our govt
No wonder Trump needs General John Kelly to run DHS
Jeh Johnson: One of the best arguments going for doing away affirmative action.
Third possibility - someone sat on their keyboard and “butt dialed” the attempted hack”.....
Probably a russian plant.
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