Posted on 07/23/2015 9:33:20 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The prolonged hacking into the White House Office of Personnel Management, which put the personal information of at least some 21.5 million past and current federal employees in jeopardy, is only the beginning of the security threat to the Obama Administration and its successors, a number of top-level experts in cybersecurity have told Fox News. The attack has been frequently sourced as coming from China.
The experts warned that the entire U.S. national security clearance system could be compromised, that future senior government leaders and advisors could be targeted even before taking office, and hundreds, perhaps thousands, of government officials might successfully be blackmailed, bribed or otherwise manipulated in the future into handing over still more sensitive information.
The identity disaster could also weaken the U.S. in any time of military confrontation: “If we choose to engage in conflict, we are in a much weaker position,” one expert concluded.
The threat could include intruders already in the government whose security credentials were stealthily enhanced during the OPM intrusion, which may have lasted a year before it was detected last April.
“There may be people walking around with higher levels of clearance than they should have,” said one of the experts. “I believe the entire national security apparatus is now at risk. It’s mind-boggling.”
“It’s the digital equivalent of Pearl Harbor,” another expert told Fox News. “Because people don’t see the carnage, they don’t recognize that this is the equivalent of an act of war. This is about espionage—Cold War tactics in the modern digital age.”
The experts consulted by Fox News were former government officials with deep knowledge of federal information systems and experience with national security issues, who had worked in top positions in both the Obama and George W. Bush administrations.
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There are multiple networks. DoD uses a very different network than the OPM. However agencies need to communicate with each other.
The solution isn’t really creating parallel networks as that increases the over complexity and cost dramatically. The solution is to follow the damn rules.
This was almost certainly avoidable if they followed the rules and built their systems properly.
Sure its doable, it would also result in massive increases in billing to ATT and other carriers.
QUOTE: “The prolonged hacking into the White House Office of Personnel Management...”
Valerie Jarrett gave the Moslem Brotherhood her back door.
To the network I mean!
as long as obie’s in charge...there’s no will...and no way.
“The OPM system that was hacked does not include files of intel agents or higher level operatives. So the Chinese need only compare the list of Americans in their country to the OPM list, and those who are missing get targeted as likely spies.”
A lot of agents have covers that put them working for other US departments and agencies.
At this point, what difference does it make?
Does anyone doubt that the traitors in the white hut have not been having a field day giving away intel and classified information? I don’t.
We have been increasingly compromised since January 21, 2008.
At this point what difference does anything make?
Wrong analogy. It's the Visigoths have broken through the gates - let the sacking of Rome commence.
The moment US Govt/Mil put china chips into their system computers, it was over.
Trace back to the people responsible for allowing china sourced hardware, arrest them, put them on trial, convict and execute them for treason because a 2 year old could see this coming.
It made compromising our system childs play because those chips are KNOWN to be backdoored. We already KNOW it.
This problem will not be fixed, ever, as long as those china sourced hardware parts remain in use. Then we will have a chance at defending against straight up hacking.
Not try, al others could simply be citizens.
Oh well...
People voted for this. So enjoy the ride down, suckers.
They don’t even need the chips
Well it’s a lesser evil. No matter what.
Not at all, all others not on list could be citizens.
No, but it sure makes everything they do a ton easier. Gives them far more points to screw with and access/FUBAR.
And lest we forget, those chips are in our aircraft/weapons systems and commercial airliners.
Are you saying the MSM's protecting China now too? Or just the usual lying filthy traitorous democrats?
I agree with the ATT alumnus...it would be easy.
Of course it would. There are costs, and then there are the costs of risks.
The solution is to follow the damn rules.
Since when has that ever worked? Know anybody who keeps the Ten Commandments?
Obama’s plan to give it all away ,well except his share
Those stories turned out to be bogus.
There were definitely counter fitted chips in cisco gear, but they did not have the capability to be remotely re-programmed.
Then the stories were not bogus at all. China got their crap into our stuff.
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