Posted on 06/11/2015 6:25:34 PM PDT by sheikdetailfeather
WASHINGTON DC – As officials of the Obama administration announced that millions of sensitive records associated with current and past federal employees and contractors had been exposed by a long-running infiltration of the networks and systems of the Office of Personnel Management on June 4, they claimed the breach had been found during a government effort to correct problems with OPM’s security.
An OPM statement on the attack said that the agency discovered the breach as it had “undertaken an aggressive effort to update its cybersecurity posture.” And a DHS spokesperson told Ars that “interagency partners” were helping the OPM improve its network monitoring “through which OPM detected new malicious activity affecting its information technology systems and data in April 2015.”
Those statements may not be entirely accurate. According to a Wall Street Journal report, the breach was indeed discovered in April. But according to sources who spoke to the WSJ’s Damian Paletta and Siobhan Hughes, it was in fact discovered during a sales demonstration of a network forensics software package called CyFIR by its developer, CyTech Services. “CyTech, trying to show OPM how its cybersecurity product worked, ran a diagnostics study on OPM’s network and discovered malware was embedded on the network,” Paletta and Hughes reported.
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“We’re from the government and we’re here to screw up.”
White hat hacker: Data breach more serious than gov’t admits
Jun. 11, 2015 - 3:21 - Insight from cybersecurity expert David Kennedy
So if the federal government is too stupid to even recognize the breach, why exactly should we have faith that they can tell who is at fault?
I still think the Chinese are just a cover story. I think liberals are mining the data for their own use and need a scapegoat since the breach has been discovered. I base that theory on nothing but their m.o.
Government knew, they just didn’t care and wanted to keep it hush hush.
Since barney frank and jerri studds, the US g0vt has hired not based on what you know, but who you blow.
How else could barkai obama get elected?
Probably an inside job by libs or the usurper gave the password to several of his muzzy bros who spent the night in the Lincoln Bedroom.
Bkmrk.
Thank you! Me too. We don't have any idea what this is all about.
Coming right on the heels of the Patriot Act semi-rebellion seems a little too perfect for me.
can’t wait till FEDGUV INC puts our medical history online.
Smells more like b.o. to me. It's what he does.
Agree... today’s lax national security attitude is every communists’ wet dream. We’ve lost CIA station chiefs, lost overseas assets galore due to constant leaking, we’ve seen our special forces getting abused, our humint is eroded in ways not seen since the Church committee, and even that I think pales in comparison to the damage done in the last few years....
Incompetence is not this perfect in its destruction, but sabotage is.
Not just employees- contractors too, now.
DUH!!!! (not Wow)
Tinfoil my ass... this is BO PERIOD
Fundamentally transforming...
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