
CNN reported Wednesday that a U.S. official has confirmed that “the United States is pulling spies from China as a result of the cyberattack that compromised the personal data of 21.5 million government workers.”
by John Hayward30 Sep 2015, 10:35 PM PST0

The Wall Street Journal reports on a study from cybersecurity group ThreatConnect and the security consultants at Defense Group, Inc., indicating that China’s military is heavily involved in hacking and cyber crime.
by John Hayward24 Sep 2015, 8:13 PM PST0

The Office of Personnel Management announced Wednesday that 5.6 million sets of fingerprints were taken in the data breach which impacted 21.5 million government workers. Previously, OPM had said the number of sets of fingerprints taken was 1.1 million.
by John Sexton23 Sep 2015, 4:27 PM PST0

The end of another “red line” farce draws nigh, as China waves aside the Obama administration’s bluster about cyberwar sanctions and claims to be more victimized by hackers than the United States is.
by John Hayward8 Sep 2015, 8:44 PM PST0

Hard on the heels of reports that China and Russia are busy using stolen U.S. government data to identify American intelligence officers and assets, comes word that the Obama administration is considering retaliatory sanctions against Russian and Chinese targets.
by John Hayward2 Sep 2015, 7:45 PM PST0

A report on the breach of OPM’s computers systems by the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT) says hackers did not have to work very hard to gain entry. The report also raises a worrisome new possibility about what hackers might have been doing during the months they had undetected access: adding false data to the systems even as they were stealing from it.
by John Sexton20 Jul 2015, 8:33 PM PST0

Did outgoing OPM Director Katherine Archuleta write her own resignation statement? Perhaps it’s better to ask: Did she even bother to read her own resignation statement? In any case, the last word on Archuleta’s tenure contains three embarrassing mistakes in the span of 10 sentences.
by John Sexton10 Jul 2015, 1:48 PM PST0

In a surprise announcement this afternoon, Katherine Archuleta, the Director of the Office of Personnel and Management resigned suddenly after details were released regarding a massive hacking breach of over 21 million people.
by Charlie Spiering10 Jul 2015, 10:36 AM PST0

House Oversight Committee Chairman Representative Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) argued that the OPM hack has “sort of an act of war” and that there is “sort of this ghost war” involving hacking and security on Friday’s “America’s Newsroom” on the Fox
by Ian Hanchett10 Jul 2015, 9:43 AM PST0

Just for a moment, let us indulge McLaughlin and Clift and suppose Hillary Clinton, contrary to all available evidence and testimony, really did set up a private server because she thought the State Department system she was required to use was dangerously vulnerable. What does that tell us about Big Government and its high priestess? The Democrats who saddled us with a gigantic burden of taxes, deficit spending, and regulations don’t trust the multi-trillion-dollar government they’ve built.
by John Hayward6 Jul 2015, 7:21 AM PST0

Office of Personnel Management Director (OPM) Katherine Archuleta was unsure of how many employees and retirees’ information her agency oversees and might have been breached in testimony before the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday. Archuleta was asked by Chairman Jason
by Ian Hanchett24 Jun 2015, 11:43 AM PST0

FireEye, a private sector cybersecurity firm, told media that they believe they have discovered who was behind the massive hack on the federal Office of Personnel Management in which millions of federal employees’s data was stolen.
by Michael Lucchese23 Jun 2015, 6:26 PM PST0

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has revised its timeline on a massive data breach that exposed the personal information of 4 million Americans to foreign hackers.
by John Sexton19 Jun 2015, 8:33 PM PST0

In 2014, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) urged the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to shut down computer systems which were operating without a current security authorization. OIG specifically warned the breach of some of the systems could have “national security implications.”
by John Sexton16 Jun 2015, 7:00 PM PST0

Contents: Tsipras gives bitter, defiant speech to Greece’s parliament; Speculation grows about China’s purpose in giant government hacking breach
by John J. Xenakis6 Jun 2015, 8:42 AM PST0

They didn’t fess up willingly, but after we applied the appropriate pressure, government officials responsible for operating the Washington, D.C. Obamacare “Small Business Exchange” have finally admitted that Congress is taking advantage of health benefits its members and staff are not entitled to claim.
by Tom Fitton13 Jan 2015, 11:27 AM PST0