The OPM has admitted that the 4 million record number is way low, the number is likely around 14 million and the SF-86 data, which OPM initially said was not compromised, was, in fact, hacked. In a statement to Bloomberg News on Friday, agency spokesperson Samuel Schumach (see article) said Investigators have “a high degree […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While the OPM continues to muddle around in dealing with their breach and telling the public what happened, more news stories are coming out. First, the White House ordered agencies to tighten things up in a security sprint. While using agile terminology is nifty, my guess is that most of these agencies are more familiar […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Wired wrote a piece about how Apple and Google are trying hard to kill off apps. In part, I buy what Wired says – that it is about the user experience and if you can seamlessly integrate that experience into the platform (iPhone or Android) then you don’t really care about the app. I think […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Several short items – The battle over NSA spying is not over, the OPM breach is better or worse than we thought, The first ruling on net neutrality is here, Senator McConnell is trying to insert the cyber protection bill CISA inside the defense appropriations bill in a way that does not allow for debate. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Gene Kaspersky, head of the Russian anti-malware vendor and security research labs reported yesterday that the malware that infected his labs last year was also found … drum roll … at the hotels for the delegates to the Iranian nuclear talks (see article). Kaspersky reported yesterday (see article) that their lab was the victim of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The government seems to be avoiding telling us what information was taken. This could be because they don’t know – or because they do know. One speculation that keeps coming up, and that the OPM has not denied, is that the hackers got SF-86 data. If that is true, that is a problem. I will […]
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