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Terrific: Russian hackers got into White House computer system in 2014



Gosh, maybe everyone in the Obama Administration should use homebrew servers. They might be more secure than the ones in the White House. They're not, of course, and that's of no comfort to anyone given what we're now hearing about a hacker attack last year on the White House's servers. Apparently the hackers were Russian and they had quite the look around:
The report by CNN says the hackers were able to get sensitive information, including non-public details about President Obama’s schedule. White House officials responded by saying the attack last year was made public and that no classified information was compromised. And they declined to comment on CNN's assertion that Russia was the culprit. “This report is not referring to a new incident,” National Security Council spokesman Mark Stroh told Fox News. Stroh said the report by CNN was “speculating” on the attempts last year to hack an unclassified network for the Executive Office of the President.

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However, he also made clear the administration takes such threats “very seriously” and that “immediate” efforts were taken to evaluate and mitigate the hacking. He declined to respond to the assertion that Russia was the perpetrator of the White House attack by saying: “As has been our position, we are not going to comment on the referenced article’s attribution to specific actors.” By the way, if you read further down in the story you'll find that one of the White House's assertions for why the hackers might not have been Russian is that lots of other countries also do this. Which one did they name as an example? Iran. I know. The jokes write themselves. It's clear from the White House response that someone hacked in, otherwise they wouldn't be talking about needing to "evaluate and mitigate" anything. And claiming that they didn't see any classified information, even if true, isn't of much comfort. If hackers could get in and see anything, then theoretically they could get in and see everything. If the White House considers it a win that they only saw the president's non-public schedule, but not the classified stuff, I think they might want to reconsider their data loss prevention strategy. This is the equivalent of some guy jumping the fence and running right past the Secret Service through the front door - with a knife on him no less - and getting all the way to the foot of the stairs leading to the private living quarters. And that would never happen. Oh wait . . .


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