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Pentagon Reveals Cyber Breach of Travel Records (apnews.com)
The Pentagon on Friday said there has been a cyber breach of Defense Department travel records that compromised the personal information and credit card data of U.S. military and civilian personnel. From a report: According to a U.S. official familiar with the matter, the breach could have affected as many as 30,000 workers, but that number may grow as the investigation continues. The breach could have happened some months ago but was only recently discovered. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the breach is under investigation, said that no classified information was compromised. According to a Pentagon statement, a department cyber team informed leaders about the breach on Oct. 4. Lt. Col. Joseph Buccino, a Pentagon spokesman, said the department is still gathering information on the size and scope of the hack and who did it. "It's important to understand that this was a breach of a single commercial vendor that provided service to a very small percentage of the total population" of Defense Department personnel, said Buccino.
Because the device manufacturers are any better at security? Good joke... Good joke...
It's not like we've heard about numerous data breaches of private companies or anything because of lax security practices. Nah, they're all impregnable and spend the most amount of money possible on security that they can.
It's almost as if bad guys have become emboldened to attack the US. I wonder why that could be?
You are welcome on my lawn.
.... but this is the same government that says we should have backdoors on all civilian encryption schemes and they'd keep those perfectly safe. Right. I'm sure nothing bad could happen from that.
And the circle of life continues to spin, occasionally wobbling on its axis thanks to the weighty presence of dumb.
You watch, there will be absolutely no consequences to whomever was in charge of that shit.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
Another day, another news item about someone's security getting breached. I'm beginning to wonder if we don't all need to just break out the old zip-zap machines, the good ol' knuckle-busters of old, and get rid of all this electronic bullshit, and go back to the fucking 1970s. I miss my C64... sure it was slow as shit and using a 2400 baud modem sucked, but we didn't know different.
Hell... I'm even beginning to miss bell-bottoms. I miss natural perky tits in tight little sweaters and long straight hair on girls not covered in ridiculous makeup and tattoos... all our great rock and jazz and soul musicians were still alive... and today they're mostly all dead, all the great bands have broken up, all our shit's getting broken into, the world's going to fucking pieces... anyone got a time machine handy? Set course for 1969 and engage. (I'll need a year or two to re-acclimate first.)
(For a list of grievances, we could just play back the second half of "We Didn't Start the Fire," really.) -sigh-
Our reign has gone on long enough. Indeed. Summon the meteors.