Posted on 02/21/2017 9:27:01 AM PST by mandaladon
U.S. Department of Homeland Security employees in the Washington area were unable to access some agency computer networks on Tuesday, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
It was not immediately clear how widespread the issue was or how significantly it affected daily functions at DHS, a large government agency whose responsibilities include immigration services, border security and cyber defense.
Employees began experiencing problems logging into networks at 5 a.m. ET on Tuesday due to the expiration of the personal identify verification cards used by federal workers and contractors to access certain information systems, one source said. At least four DHS buildings were affected, the source said, including locations used by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
DHS did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Government agencies redoubled efforts to implement the use of "smart" cards for network log-ins following the 2015 discovery of a massive hack at the Office of Personnel Management that compromised nearly 22 million background check records.
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What possible good could that be, when three Pakistani brothers, non- citizens, can be in charge of IT operations of the joint intelligence committee?
a) prepatory to a purge of jugear’s holdovers
b) hack by treasonous leftists
c) ?
Did they not keep their Common Access Cards up to date? Been standard procedure for accessing government networks for quite some time.
Thanks for the laugh.
Why indeed...
Looks like a raid in the WA area, and they don’t want any leaks.
Sounds like some DHS employees are in process of being uninstalled.
Dear itsahoot,
Ya hasta start sompeplace, and sometime, so’s somebody done t’row dah dart, an’ d’as whar it stuck!
running joke at my job- is if card does not unlock door- your job is gone
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