OPM

The past year has proven to be a contentious and disruptive time for the technology sector. The threat of home grown terrorism combined with the adroit usage of social media by terrorist groups, has forced the tech sector to come into far closer contact with the intelligence community than it ...

One year ago, on July 10, 2015, Katherine Archuleta resigned her position as Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) in the face of intense criticism following the announcement that OPM had been the victim of the worst breach of a government network in U.S. history. The actual breach ...

It has been a little over a year since the Office of Personnel Management announced that it had been breached. Since that time, the federal government has taken an array of steps to improve its cybersecurity posture and avoid another major breach. The Cipher Brief spoke to John Davis, Vice ...

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) was the victim of a cyber-attack in 2014.  Hackers (the Chinese are suspected) gained access to OPM’s local-area network on or about May 7, 2014 by stealing credentials and then planting malware and creating a backdoor for exfiltration.  Actual exfiltration of data on background ...

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) hack shocked the U.S., exposing the vulnerability of the U.S. government to cyber attack.  After thieves took the personal data of more than 20 million federal employees, what did we learn? 1. IT isn’t a priority until something goes wrong. OPM received several warnings from ...

Imagine this:  a private company discovers that detailed personal identifying information—including Social Security numbers, dates of birth, passport data, foreign travel histories, and other sensitive personal and private data—for more than 25 million people has been compromised in successive security breaches.  How swiftly do you think government officials, regulators, and ...

The Cipher Brief sat down with Michael Chertoff at the Aspen Security Conference to discuss emerging issues in cybersecurity. He feels that businesses and the government need to more proactively engage with cybersecurity problems and work closer together to minimize their vulnerability to hackers. TCB: What would you say for ...