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IRS employees can use ‘password’ as a password? No wonder we get hacked
Why should anyone trust what the US government says on cybersecurity when they can’t secure the systems they have full control over? By Trevor Timm.
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New report blasts personnel office cyber security management
Sooner or later the Office of Personnel Management is bound to have some good news. Just not this week. This week is reserved for the congressional grilling... -
OPM head: ‘I’m as angry as you’ about poor fraud protection
Office of Personnel Management Director Katherine Archuleta told senators Tuesday “I’m as angry as you are” about reports that credit monitoring firm CSID has offered substandard service to the millions of victims of the recent federal data breach... -
Senators leave classified OPM brief wanting details
“There’s no more concrete answers to the questions about, when did you know and what did you do?” said Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), exiting the briefing. “And that still, in my view, needs to be answered.”
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Comparing hardware then to now is not a valid point. XP run on hardware now would destroy hardware then. The main issue is XP not the hardware. For the Navy it's probably cheaper to spend 30M to have MS keep them up to date, instead of spending $100M+ having their systems ported to newer versions of Windows.
Don't think there's much to port, and programs that work on XP should work on Win7+ ? Think again, something as trivial as the change in directory paths could cause a program to not perform the way it was intended, and chances are that the developers who wrote the programs run by the Navy are either not around anymore, or they have fresh uni-grad programmers working for them that are wetting their pant in anticipation to rewrite the whole infrastructure to use the latest hipster coding language.
The point is more that the US Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command is on XP and means to keep it that way. It's about competence not complexity, the way I read it.
Yeah I just decided to pick on that one point as it stood out to me as something that was slanted opinion rather than fact when it came to comparing hardware then and now to make a point.