Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
Retail giants aren’t the only target of hackers who infiltrate computer systems to gain access to sensitive information. The federal government also falls victim, such as recently when the Obama administration revealed that 21.5 million people were affected by a breach at the Office of Personnel Management. Social Security numbers and other records were stolen, and likely anyone given a government background check in the last 15 years was affected. That’s disturbing, both because it happened and because of the ease with which the hackers were able to circumvent government security measures, cyber security expert Michael J. Daugherty says. “The government is quick to criticize security breaches and weaknesses in the private sector, but isn’t able to shore up its own weaknesses,” says Daugherty, author of the book “The Devil Inside the Beltway: The Shocking Expose of the U.S. Government’s Surveillance and Overreach into Cybersecurity, Medicine and Small Business” (www.michaeljdaugherty.com). The U.S. Government Accountability Office conducted a review this year that concluded government computers, and those of contractors that work for the government, face “an evolving array of cyber-based threats.” “These threats can be unintentional – for example, from equipment failure, careless or poorly trained employees – or intentional,” the […]
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