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Obama Creates a Color-Coded Cyber Threat 'Schema' After the DNC Hack (vice.com)
The White House on Tuesday issued new instructions on how government agencies should respond to major cyber security attacks, in an attempt to combat perceptions that the Obama administration has been sluggish in addressing threats from sophisticated hacking adversaries, Reuters reports. The announcement comes amid reports that hackers working for Russia may have engineered the leak of emails stolen from the Democratic National Committee in an attempt to influence the outcome of the upcoming presidential election. Motherboard adds: George W. Bush's Homeland Security Advisory System -- the color-coded terrorism "threat level" indicator that became a symbol of post-9/11 fear mongering -- is getting its spiritual successor for hacking: the "Cyber Incident Severity Schema." President Obama announced a new policy directive Tuesday that will codify how the federal government will respond to hacking incidents against both the government and private American companies. [...] The Cyber Incident Severity Schema ranges from white (an "unsubstantiated or inconsequential event") to black (a hack that "poses an imminent threat to the provision of wide-scale critical infrastructure services, national government stability, or to the lives of U.S. persons") , with green, yellow, orange, and red falling in between. Any hack or threat of a hack rated at orange or above is a "significant cyber incident" that will trigger what the Obama administration is calling a "coordinated" response from government agencies. As you might expect, there are many unanswered questions here, and the federal government has announced so many cyber programs in the last few years that it's hard to know which, if any of them, will actually make the US government or its companies any safer from hackers.
This is what the government does when they want to give the appearance of doing something when they really don't have any idea what to do. It didn't do anything after 9/11 and nobody really will pay any attention to it now, either.
[tongue in cheek]
I guess it isn't since Obama says it is ok....
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
Maybe they should have encrypted their stuff. ...oh wait.
Our current level is solid black.....because programmers don't care about bugs, managers don't let them care, and our critical infrastructure is connected to the internet.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Is he a brony after all?
Yes, let's adopt the most widely-mocked concept of Rumsfeld's DOD and apply it to the most widely-obfuscated topic of national security, making the whole thing seem absolutely as trollish as possible.
The only thing missing is an article by Gersh Kuntzman about how his amazon gift order invoices got leaked to family members and ruined his Hanukkah.
I just want to hear a high-ranking government official say we gone to plaid.
Why hasn't Trump's campaign been hacked? He has been unprepared for the rigors of a presidential campaign. Maybe he is doing old fashioned small number of advisors with old fashioned phone and face communications. Without internet connected computers with valuable info, there is no computers to hack... An unintentionally good security strategy. I wonder if his phone lines are bugged. Or if social engineering would work wonders?
>George W. Bush's Homeland Security Advisory System
Lying fucking idiots. George W. Bush and King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia planned the entire 9/11 false flag.
The only cyber "threat" out there are the ones playing admin to the US government spy apparatus. This is the CIA primarily and of course NSA/DHS/DOJ/FBI/Stratcom/etc.
Also guilty of treason are Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Markmonitor, and others.
They literally took your taxes and spent it on things to scare you. Every time they scare you they say hey, we need more control.
Slashdot editors I highly recommend you research this before you continue to pump fear and/or cyber fear for the "intelligence agencies" which are really "dumbfuck agencies".
Whew! Everything is ok now!
A fine is a tax you pay for doing wrong and a tax is a fine you pay for doing all right.
Obama didn't build that. Someone else built that system.
Who here keeps up with what the current color is for our " Terrorism Threat Level " ?
* crickets *
( Who here remembers we even have one ? )
Exactly. No one cares. Even fewer are going to give a sh*t about some other lame ass color coded scheme. :|
( LoudSpeaker: Today's cyber-threat level is Muave with just a hint of Magenta )
Don't want your networks hacked ? Maybe you should keep a competent IT staff on hand. ( and treat them like you want them to stick around )
Not the contractors from India you're using because it's cheaper.
So, when can we expect this system to be applied to rate the mass surveillance activities of the NSA, CIA, FBI, and others against law-abiding US citizens? Sounds like a good way for the EFF to rank the severity of abuses.
Obviously their hacker cred is not up to par, or else they would have specified colors by hex triplets.
OPM gets hacked... 'bama doesn't care.
His party gets hacked... well, now we need new laws and regulations and procedures!
All the times U.S. agencies and depts got hacked, nothing. But shit got real when it was only political.
So kiddies, White ... is good and Black ... is bad!
Hahahahahhahahhahahahhaha
Would Obama do the same thing if it was the Republican National Convention?
0 means non-event, 5 means kiss your ass goodbye.
There are a significant amount of efforts at keeping software secure. Instead of funding security, our government has instead been sabotaging these efforts. It's hard for me to care about their security at this point.
But then everything does.
The only way for it to not, is to be invaded by ALIENS! Then it's US against THEM. And them is probably some sort of bug-like creature, with large, super-oversized sex organs, which these creatures use to impregnate humans (male and female) so to create a race of bug-humans, which will inherit the Earth.
By 2040, as you are all well aware, computers won't have the power needed so this will be all the more simpler for these bug aliens to take over the world.
You have been warned.
What's the blue screen mean? Windows is giving me one now.
Table-ized A.I.
Like foreign countries never influenced USA elects.
Just google "Hillary accepting foreign donations", and see what comes up.
Wow, anyone having flashbacks to Bush's colored terrorist alerts?
Funny thing that, people were all hyped up on the stupidity of it when he did it, but Obama can straight up murder an American citizen with drones and people barely make a peep. Am I the only one who hated these things no matter which party was doing them?
None of the previous security protocols worked either.
Information just wants to be free, especially when it can be socially engineered and exists in multiple locations at various times.
-- Tigger warning: This post may contain tiggers! --
RED- Any cyber attack that threatens the Democratic party or its donors
YELLOW- Any cyber attack by our enemies including China, Russia, and maybe ISIS
GREEN- fuck em
So Obama pretends to be everyone's President, but when it comes down to threats to the Democrat Election Fraud machinery, it suddenly becomes an issue of color.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
They picked black?
Damn it Jim, we don't have any black lights!
How can we show such urgency without flashing lights?!
You think this is a game?
You gotta watch out for that dangerous black ice!
Instead of showing leadership by going medieval on the DNC bigwigs, we get some stupid color coding scheme. Obama administration in a nutshell.
So, the government gets hacked and no overall action is taken, pentagon hacked, no particularly overarching initiatives. But the private organization, the DNC, they get hacked and Obama springs into action and creates an overarching initiative, because, well, political strategy is more important than Chinese military hacking, Russians hacking defense organizations and industry, etc. But threaten the liberal agenda by disclosing the truth, sure. Hacking the DNC warrants a more active response than Snowden whistleblowing or Hillary Clinton's threat to national security repeated breeches and theft of above top secret data through her private servers being hacked.
comeon guys really?
where have all the baby sitters gone?
well call them the fuck back, it seems someone is screaming loud enough to require supervision..
is that what My tax dolars ae really spent on
what we as a nation are taken SO NOT SERIOUSLY that we cant even have a mutha fuckin election?
i apologize for what may seem like rude or terse comments, but im at my whits end on this..
make it stop
Beige Alert!
Beige Alert!!
Beige Alert!!!
US President Barack Obama's half-brother, Malik Obama, says he will vote for Donald Trump. http://www.bbc.com/news/electi...
One more perpetually orange indicator.
Slashdot: Where the sig outsmarts the comment
Current threat level color is: ass raped brown, with a hint of broken vein red.
"Go to Blue Alert!"
"Sir, are you absolutely sure? That does mean changing the bulb."
Red Dwarf: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa_gZ_7sdZg
The chart specifically mentions "civil liberties" being impacted. Does that mean we can get the Patriot Act classified as a terrorist document?
directly hard-wired to Americans brains, ready to scare them and whip up fear and anger at any time. They just need to press the button, and Americans will panic and froth. The government just needs to set the level or indicator to black and the Americans will truly believe that the evil Russians and Chinese are coming for them. It works perfectly with a placated and uneducated population like this. Smart.
Oh goody, more color coding bullshit. I'll throw it in the trash along with the other color codes, and the food pyramid.
C'mon. There are a million attackers 24 hours a day, for a network and data center architecture that treats security as an afterthought, and applications that are built as well as the industry standard. (smirk)
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
So, when the DNC's email servers have been compromised, the White House scrambles to come up with some cockamamie Directive on United States Cyber Incident Coordination. However, if the Secretary of State uses her own, unsecured server, the POTUS just states that "it was just a mistake" and doesn't endanger national security and the AG doesn't even try to slap a wrist.
What a bunch of inconsistent idiots.
Repeat after me: "The DNC is not a government agency."
The DNC is a private club.
It is extremely bizarre to me that a simple hack on the server of a small private club should warrant such attention from the FBI, DHS, NSA, CIA, Whitehouse, etc.
Why is my tax money being spent on this. How about we track down the people holding hospitals for ransom? Why not fund the development of a secure email protocol? Why pay for all this theater? What a waste.
... is getting its spiritual successor for hacking ...
yeah, I'll put that beside my nuclear warfare (DefCon) advisory, my 'minutes to doomsday' clock, my terrorism threat advisory since my country still has one. Oh, right down the bottom will be the forest fire advisory, the ocean tsunami advisory and the UV solar radiation advisory.
No threat level pink? This is an insult to all women...and people that are sympathetic to women...and people that are men that really want to be women.
And no threat level rainbow? Oh the humanity!!! Once again we have left our LGBT brothers and sisters in the lurch.
And code black is an imminent threat? Sounds vaguely racist.
No...this just won't do. Back to the drawing board Barack.
This is a fairly pathetic response from the Obama administration. Rather that focusing on DNC corruption, the President is working to create better infrastructure to assist them in keeping their corrupt secrets. I don't want to call out the US government as being entirely corrupt, but here we are. Maybe, instead of this, the Obama administration would be better of using the money as a reward, to Guccifer 2.0, for his assistance for doing their job.
Citizen, understand that the DNC breaking its own rules by working for one particular campaign in the primaries is NOT NEWS! If you talk about this, the evil russians win!!!! Accept that the rules are only for you, not for those in office! Stop thinking so much and learn to love exclamation marks!!!!
Regards, The Chosen Few Who Truly Understand
See also this discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/Redox/comments/4unzzf/flawed_thinking/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Redox/comments/4unzzf/flawed_thinking/
Stop using the gobbermint stuff from Bell Labs.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Redox/comments/4unzzf/flawed_thinking/
White: Everything is secure. Nothing to see here. Move along, folks.
Green: Trivial "hack", low-sensitivity data; e.g. someone looked at the scripts running on a government site, and found that they're collecting traffic statistics for marketers.
Yellow: Minor hack, medium-sensitivity data; e.g. individual politician's email hacked, revealing undeclared income from lobbyists.
Orange: Moderate hack, high-sensitivity data; e.g. release of DNC emails revealing deliberate suppression of Bernie Sanders' campaign, rigging the primary election.
Red: Serious hack, critical data; e.g. data released by Snowden indicating that the NSA is spying on every man, woman and child in the country.
Black: Release of data revealing the lizard-person conspiracy.
Putin will have his butt boy Donald wave a red flag instead.
Years ago I remember a pundit joking that Obama would change the terror threat level colors (from the W era) into "chick colors", implying that Obama was effeminate, gay, and/or p-whipped.
It had colors like chartreuse, coral, fuchsia, periwinkle, peach, etc.
Table-ized A.I.
https://youtu.be/rENdZ4dk6BI
The DNC has been working hard to change the story from one about how they rigged the primary in collusion with the Clinton campaign and the media to one about Scary Russian Hackers. Unfortunately they've been rather successful.