Adding to the mountain of blunders already perpetrated by the Obama gang, the UK newspaper The Sunday Times says it got a whole lot worse. That's
without mentioning how Office of Management and Budget files got hacked, exposing key information about every U.S. federal employee.
QuoteLONDON (Reuters) - Britain has pulled out agents from live operations in "hostile countries" after Russia and China cracked top-secret information contained in files leaked by former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, the Sunday Times reported.
Security service MI6, which operates overseas and is tasked with defending British interests, has removed agents from certain countries, the newspaper said, citing unnamed officials at the office of British Prime Minister David Cameron, the Home Office (interior ministry) and security services.
The United States wants Snowden to stand trial after he leaked classified documents, fled the country and was eventually granted asylum in Moscow in 2013.
Russia and China have both managed to crack encrypted documents which contain details of secret intelligence techniques that could allow British and American spies to be identified, the newspaper said citing officials.
However an official at Cameron's office was quoted as saying that there was "no evidence of anyone being harmed."
http://news.yahoo.com/britain-pulls-spies-russia-china-crack-snowden-files-233218043.html
Cameron's spokesface needs a re-think. The U.S. Office of Management and Budget files got hacked, as did the Pentagon, and now the personnel files of EVERY federal employee (including hugely-sensitive background-check information) are now in enemy hands.
Two related pieces at this link to Instapundit....
Quote"You don't understand how detailed the forms are. It's over a hundred pages of you listing everything about yourself – who you are sleeping with, who your friends are – it's like a cheat sheet to your life. . . . It just seems like if there was ever anything that you should protect, it would be these files." Well, remember, these are the people who set up Healthcare.gov and ran secret email on insecure private servers.
http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/208477/
This is Obama's idea of open government: federal efforts to improve cybersecurity were only started two years ago, and just as they did with the Obamacare rollout, those efforts bogged down so fast you'd swear they never started at all.
We're in the
best of hands.
Is this the transparency Obama had in mind?? :ohmy:
I wonder if DOD and VA records were/are at risk as well? That said, why would computer systems that contain this data, even be on a network that is accessible from the outside?
Any seventh grader knows there's no such thing as "secure" online. So why even have this information on a network that is accessible via the internet? Hellooooo McObama
Quote from: daidalos on June 14, 2015, 12:37:55 PM
I wonder if DOD and VA records were/are at risk as well? That said, why would computer systems that contain this data, even be on a network that is accessible from the outside?
Any seventh grader knows there's no such thing as "secure" online. So why even have this information on a network that is accessible via the internet? Hellooooo McObama
They might not have accessed it from the internet, but through (supposedly) secure DOD or Govt systems. Who knows were they might have found a "backdoor" that gave them access to a seemingly inconsequential computer that ended up giving them access to the entire system.
Remember that malware we used to infect the Iranian nuclear project computer system that screwed up their centrifuges? It got into their supposedly secure system when one of their workers took a flash drive home from the lab and then plugged it into his home computer - which was hooked up to the internet!
When he took it back to work the next day - BINGO!
Let's be sure we are on the same page. According to the investigators, working backwards, the Chinese just obtained the files on everyone who has either applied for or applied for and was granted secret clearance for the past 30 years, some 40 million files. That's all the FBI background checks, names, dates, on and on.
My goodness, I have better security on my PC than to allow that. I routinely transfer large video files to external Seagate Passport 100 Gb hard drives, unplug them, put the drives on a shelf, and delete the files from my computer. Not just for security, but to free space.
I know the Federal Government is a Chinese fire, but surely they cannot be that stupid. No, something about the whole Chinese hack does not add up.
Quote from: red_dirt on June 14, 2015, 05:40:26 PM
Let's be sure we are on the same page. According to the investigators, working backwards, the Chinese just obtained the files on everyone who has either applied for or applied for and was granted secret clearance for the past 30 years, some 40 million files. That's all the FBI background checks, names, dates, on and on.
Well, I guess I'm hung out to dry. Well, Obama did promise the most transparent administration in history.
All Snowden's if our fault.
I spent some time learning transfer (buy and sell) operations for currency, negotiable bonds, and gold. One screwup could have cost someone a lot of money.
Twice during the shift, a tech would come around and download all the sensitive registrations, addresses, insurance data, etc. to his own disc. Then he would erase everything from ours. That way, if our system got invaded, there was nothing there.
The info was on a magnetic disc in a safe. That was 1971.
These guys are passing the buck. They are trying to call it an act of war. What do they want to do, declare war on China because some unknown hacker there got into our system?
Rep Gowdy, are you free?
Quote from: bluelieu on June 14, 2015, 07:43:40 PM
Well, I guess I'm hung out to dry. Well, Obama did promise the most transparent administration in history.
He didn't lie.