Technology
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The Director of National Intelligence is the first administration official to publicly attribute the OPM breach to China, and says intelligence agencies would have engaged in similar operations if given the opportunity.
June 26, 2015 -
Tony Scott, the federal chief information officer, said he fully supports OPM Director Katherine Archuleta and CIO Donna Seymour in their efforts to address long-standing cyber challenges, and cautions lawmakers to ‘be careful about distinguishing fire starters from firefighters.’
June 26, 2015 -
DHS says its program to scan federal networks for cyber threats should be mostly finished by the end of this fiscal year, but it still faces obstacles in implementation of EINSTEIN 3, which seeks to stop cyber attacks before they enter federal networks.
June 25, 2015 -
During the second hearing of the week, the Office of Personnel Management defended its hiring of Winvale and CSID despite continued questions about the $21 million contract. Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) pressed OPM about the possibility of the second breach impacting 32 million current and former federal employees.
June 25, 2015 -
The Office of Personnel Management will hire a special cyber advisor, accelerate the implementation of two-factor authentication and data encryption technologies.
June 25, 2015
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