DoD Budget Appears to Cut Cyber Offense, Beef Up Defenses

Re:DoD Budget Appears to Cut Cyber Offense, Beef Up Defenses by caseysoftware on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @11:40PM (#27364567)

> I do not think companies have really demonstrated that they can handle this data responsibly.

Neither have governments. The entire OPM (Office of Personnel Management) background check database was breached and thoroughly compromised for years. And that system is effectively the blackmailer's wet dream. I wrote about that almost 6 years ago here:

https://caseysoftware.com/blog/why-this-security-breach-is-w...

And that was before the NSA had all their best hacking tools stolen..

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Re:DoD Budget Appears to Cut Cyber Offense, Beef Up Defenses by jl2718 on Thursday June 03, 2021 @08:06AM (#27380036)

What is the responsible thing to do here?

Should a government announce to the people that everybody within it is potentially operating under foreign influence?

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Re:DoD Budget Appears to Cut Cyber Offense, Beef Up Defenses by Nexxius on Thursday June 03, 2021 @02:43PM (#27385594)

Cyber COP, Experian Cyber services, and the like have provided fairly perm accounts paid for by the government due to breaches and mistaken disclosures of PII. While the above mentioned incident is one of the more notable, it ain't the first and isn't even the most recent.

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Re:DoD Budget Appears to Cut Cyber Offense, Beef Up Defenses by jl2718 on Monday June 07, 2021 @12:35PM (#27424573)

If you think that is even an attempt at a solution, then I’m pretty sure you don’t understand how this information is used.

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