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| Hacking as Offensive Counterintelligence - OPM |
| 2015-06-13 |
| Washington, DC, is reeling from revelations that the Office of Personnel Management, the Federal government’s HR hub, has been extensively hacked. OPM is an obscure but important agency since it holds the personnel records of Federal workers, past and present, and even more, it conducts background investigations for security clearance holders across many Federal agencies. Based on available information so far, the records of some four million Federal workers, going back to 1985, have been compromised, of whom 2.1 million are currently serving. In what has become the custom inside the Beltway, OPM had repeated warnings about its slipshod computer security practices but not much was done despite the enormously rising threat of foreign hackers. The extent of this needless debacle is truly disastrous, as I explained in a series of tweets the other day. |
| Posted by:newc |
| #2 Thanks Noose, good read. Blaming this on Chinese, Russian or the East Estonians is diverting attention from the act itself. Many times acts such as these are performed by anarcharist mercenaries or contract workers, enabled by insiders, that put what was collected out to bid. Sometimes they are given a shopping list for a specific customer. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2015-06-13 03:56 |
| #1 It's a must read, as is most of what he posts. This goes down the line of implications many are facing. Is you are in this, you are going to want to understand all the possibilities. |
| Posted by: newc 2015-06-13 02:23 |