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Did DOGE “breach” Americans’ data? (Lock and Code S06E08)

This week on the Lock and Code podcast … If you don't know about the newly created US Department of Government Efficiency DOGE, there's a strong chance they already know about you. Created on January 20 by US President Donald Trump through Executive Order, DOGE's broad mandate is “modernizing...

Teen on Musk’s DOGE Team Graduated from ‘The Com’

Wired reported this week that a 19-year-old working for Elon Musk 's so-called Department of Government Efficiency DOGE was given access to sensitive US government systems even though his past association with cybercrime communities should have precluded him from gaining the necessary security...

Ex-CIA Analyst Pleads Guilty to Sharing Top-Secret Data with Unauthorized Parties

A former analyst working for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency CIA pleaded guilty to transmitting top secret National Defense Information NDI to individuals who did not have the necessary authorization to receive it and attempted to cover up the activity. Asif William Rahman, 34, of Vienna, wa...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: Public google drive link Exposes Military Orders Containing PII (Name, SSN etc..) and Operational Details

A public Google Drive link was found that exposed military orders containing personally identifiable information PII such as full names, Social Security numbers, home addresses, and security clearance levels. The vulnerability was discovered on a website located at...

NSA Employee Charged with Espionage

An ex-NSA employee has been charged with trying to sell classified data to the Russians but instead actually talking to an undercover FBI agent. Its a weird story, and the FBI affidavit raises more questions than it answers. The employee only worked for the NSA for three weeks--which is weird in...

Sweden Accidentally Leaks Personal Details of Nearly All Citizens

Another day, Another data breach! This time sensitive and personal data of millions of transporters in Sweden, along with the nation's military secrets, have been exposed, putting every individual's as well as national security at risk. Who exposed the sensitive data? The Swedish government itsel...

FBI 'Double Agent' Pleads Guilty to Selling 'Classified Information' to China

An FBI electronics technician has pleaded guilty to acting as a Chinese secret agent and passing along sensitive information about the Feds to a Chinese government official. Kun Shan "Joey" Chun, 46, admitted in federal court in Manhattan on Monday that he violated his security clearance on sever...

Hack the Pentagon DOD Bug Bounty

MIAMI—Lisa Wiswell’s phone rang off the hook last summer in the throes of the OPM hack. But she wasn’t just answering questions from those whose security clearance and personal data disappeared into the Chinese ether; there were also hackers on the other end of the line offering their help...

High school Student Hacked Into CIA Director's Personal Email Account

A self-described teenage hacker has claimed to have hacked into personal AOL email account of Central Intelligence Agency CIA Director John Brennan and swiped sensitive top-secret data. It's Really a major embarrassment for Brennan as well as the CIA. The hacker, who describes himself as an...

5.6 Million Fingerprints Stolen In OPM Hack

It turns out roughly 5.6 million federal employees may have had their fingerprints stolen as part of this year’s mammoth Office of Personnel Management breach – a figure five times what the agency initially announced in June. OPM press secretary Sam Schumach broke the bad news Wednesday morning,...

Federal CISOs Propose New Efforts to Shore Up Govt. Cybersecurity

Nearly six months removed from the OPM hack and with many government departments still reeling when it comes to security, several federal chief information security officers volunteered a handful of new ideas at last week’s Billington Cybersecurity Summit in Washington, D.C to combat future hacks...

Stolen U.S. Government Credentials Found Online

Credentials stolen in breaches and sundry hacks belonging to close to 100 unique U.S. government domains are scattered among a number of paste sites and are searchable in other locations online. Analysts at Recorded Future said on Wednesday that through open source intelligence gathering and...

OPM Breach Dates Back to December

The attack on the Office of Personnel Management that was disclosed earlier this month began as early as December 2014 and likely was the end result of a social engineering attack that enabled the hackers to gain valid user credentials and move around OPM’s network. During a hearing on Capitol Hi...

Hill Debates Course of Action on China Cyberespionage

Lawmakers and experts on the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission today debated with and quizzed security and legal experts on the best course of action against cyberespionage attributed to China. The Senate committee heard pros and cons related to a number of possible scenarios...

OPM Warned About Vulnerabilities, Governance Weaknesses

It’s hardly a surprise that the U.S. Office of Personnel Management OPM was targeted by nation-state hackers, given the sensitivity of the personal information the office stored. It’s also no shocker that OPM has been successfully infiltrated more than once given the state of its information...

Is China Behind the Massive Data Theft of 4 Million U.S. Officials?

The US federal agency has notified its 4 Million current and former government employees that their private data has been compromised in a massive data breach. Hackers managed to break into US government computer systems in the Office of Personnel Management OPM and steal records of Millions of...

OPM Hack May Have Exposed Security Clearance Data

Twenty-four hours after unnamed White House officials said the Office of Personnel Management OPM data breach was linked to China, one security company has connected the intrusion to the massive break-ins earlier this year at insurance companies Anthem and Premera Blue Cross, while a D.C. think...

Chinese Hackers Broke into the Database of U.S. Federal Employees

Chinese hackers broke into the computer systems of United States government agency that keeps the personal information of all federal employees, according to the paper published in the New York Times. The attack occurred on the Office of Personnel Management and Senior American officials believe...