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White House Information Security Breach
Russian hackers blamed for cyber attack that exposed President's private schedule - as White House insists computer system is secure-by Daily Mail
The article is a of the six months investigations that were commenced on the cause and source of the cyber attack and information security breach that took place in October 2014 within the State Department and exposed some of the restricted information within the White House. The report indicates that the possible culprits in the information compromise were the private schedule of the president of the United States and the emails of some of the people working within White House.
Further, the article attributes this act of cyber attack on a group of cyber-bandits who were working on behalf of the Russian government and Vladimir Putin. Immediate measures were taken once the compromise was noted and systems shut down and upgraded to avoid a repeat of the same, the Daily mail however insinuates that an anonymous source shared with them that a re-entry into the White House systems has taken place by the same group. It is also indicated that the Russian embassy refused to comment on the allegations on the involvement of their country. The white house also refuted the claims that the systems have since been hacked into again. Through the White House deputy national security adviser, Ben Rhodes, the State Department clarified that though the intrusion took place, it did not compromise the classified information as the attack only reached the unclassified system. The writer alludes that the cyber attack was facilitated through an act known...
It is however disturbing to know that data at white house was accessed from a suspected rival of the U.S. And even more scary is the fact that no ordinary person knows how much of the data was accessed and to what use the hackers and the Russian government will put the information they have from white house. The president is known to use his blackberry to send and receive mails and communicate with other white house staff and the amounts of data and the levels of confidentiality of the data could be very sensitive.
Cause of the cyberattack and necessary measures
Critics say that the attack was successful due to the failure of white house to adopt to the new codes and instead relying on codes that have been in use over the decade and to make matters worse, the State Department used the public lines in their mail systems which was a major facilitator to the attack. Russia is seen as a bigger threat in the cyberspace than the traditional threats like China and…
References
Daily Mail, (2015). Russian hackers blamed for cyber attack that exposed President's private schedule - as White House insists computer system is secure. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3029768/Russian-hackers-blamed-cyber-attack-exposed-president-s-private-schedule-Obama-aide-insists-White-House-computer-secure.html
Frank J.C. & Sharon L.C. (2015). How to Stop Putin Hacking the White House. http://www.newsweek.com/how-stop-putin-hacking-white-house-321857
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