Posted on 07/09/2015 8:13:11 PM PDT by TurboZamboni
Today’s a busy day for those pointing and laughing at the people who mocked presidential candidate Mitt Romney over his warnings about Chinese hackers and Russia’s status as America’s greatest geopolitical foe.
Among those who got in on the action was OPM Director Katherine Archuleta, who in 2012 posted a video showing that Romney possessed “little understanding of what’s going on in the 21st century.”
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Surely she is the most qualified rather than an affirmative action hire.
Anyone who does NOT think that China and Russia are a major cyber threat should be treated with ridicule and scorn!!
This has been a fact for YEARS!
OPM Head Has No Tech Or Cyber-Security Experience, Won’t Resign
http://dailycaller.com/2015/07/09/opm-head-has-no-tech-or-cyber-security-experience-wont-resign/
if anything, she’ll get a bonus and a professorship at some
moonbat college in Madistan.
Sadly, you’re probably correct.
Well, one has to admit she was correct in her assessment of Romney.
“After the Clinton Administration, she went back to local government and became a Senior Policy Advisor to Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper.”
So many have “floated” above their competence level... ( ; )
https://www.opm.gov/about-us/our-people-organization/senior-staff-bios/katherine-archuleta/
Romney didn’t know squat about much of anything.
As a candidate, some guys handed him GOP positions on foreign policy.
I run a small, private e-mail system as part of a private cloud.
A port scan brings up a server from Soviet Russia attempting to attack port 25/tcp, despite having been blocked for WEEKS (the e-mail server auto-bans nodes for a YEAR).
I am also getting traffic from a compromised node in Tennessee, on port 5900/tcp.
Access to that service is limited to nodes within the VoiceStream GPRS network, since they are my ISP.
On the road, I simply connect my phone to my laptop—there should not be any reason as to why I would need to connect to unsecured Wi-Fi anyway.
(Current IP address: 208.54.86.228—belongs to T-Mobile USA, just as expected.)
I also get periodic attacks on the SSH and RDP ports, primarily from Red China.
This private cloud is hosted on ten-year-old hardware. Getting it secured wasn’t terribly hard, considering the age of the software.
The government, by law, is required to use the latest software, to protect against attacks of this nature, among other things.
If I can stop hackers at my door, while still using Windows Server 2000 (don’t laugh), why is the government unable to do the same (with the latest software and support), given that they have more than enough resources to do so?
What idiot outsources IT security to a foreign owned company and a Chinese one at that. This is the most incompetent administration in our history
In a septic tank the fecal matter on top is supported by the fecal matter underneath. If un maintained, a solid upper crust forms that blocks all progress.
They’ll say they are underfunded and just need more money.
“The government and its employees live in a parallel universe of high salaries, water-tight job protections, wonderful benefits, early retirements, beautiful new offices, bountiful staffs, you name it. They do it all with our money, often when they don’t even have it yet.”-Joe Soucheray
Port 443 and a random numbered port are all I have open on all my servers. You should not have ssh on port 22, you should put it on a random port and someone hits 22, block them.
One server has port 8333 open.
My husband’s computer has been getting log in requests for our cloud server on port 5900 from an IP address in the Netherlands for weeks.
I think that the government must not want to secure its computers. Maybe it’s just using political hires who know nothing.
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