IAPP published a summary of the hearings on Capitol Hill regarding the OPM breaches. The revelations certainly explain the mess, but also continues to raise the question about where Congress has been over the last 6 years. It is certainly OK to beat up OPM management, but I don’t see Congress taking any of the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Katherine Archuleta, in testimony before Congress said that she realized when she assumed her post 18 months ago that the agency had huge cyber security issues. When pressed on why the data was not encrypted, her response was that it is hard to do on systems that are that old. However, Dr. Ozment, DHS assistant […]
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]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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