Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
Jeb Bush on Monday used the recent hacking of the Office of Personnel Management to bash President Barack Obama on cyber security and plant a flag on how he would handle cyber threats. Bush, who has been sharpening his attacks on Obama on the campaign trail in recent weeks, posted on the publishing platform Medium that the recent hacking of OPM shows the Obama administration doesn’t take those types of “threats seriously.” The post comes as the Obama administration deals with the fallout of a huge breach of federal employees’ data. Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight committee, is looking to question a pair of contractors hired by OPM to perform background checks on potential employees to see if they accidentally opened up the agency to an attack. “A recent Inspector General report indicates that vulnerabilities to OPM’s systems had been identified as much as a year ago. And no one can suggest the government did not understand the value of millions of personnel records — many of which included the intrusive and sensitive personnel questionnaire (the “SF-86”),” Bush wrote. “OPM officials knew this data was valuable, knew it was sensitive, and knew it was […]
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