Islamic State Hacks CENTCOM Twitter Feed as Obama Talks Cybersecurity

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freebeacon.com:

“ISIS is already here, we are in your PCs, in each military base. With Allah’s permission we are in CENTCOM now,” said one tweet sent from CENTCOM’s account.

 

The apparent hack came as President Obama addressed the nation regarding cyber security. He is expected to propose two pieces of cyber security legislation and to address the effort in his upcoming State of the Union address.

 

The hackers subsequently tweeted images of spreadsheets containing the home addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of dozens of current and former senior U.S. military officers.

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Wow, didn't Anonymous say they were going to hack radical islam websites this weekend after the Paris terror attack?

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Yet nobody seems to be able to publish the IRS emails.

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CENTCOM's Twitter Hacked By ISIS?

 

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/centcoms-twitter-hacked-isis_823501.html

 

 

 

[Valin]

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On a related note

 

Murphy's Law: China And The Dark Side Strategy To Computer Security

January 12, 2015:

 

A recent survey of in American civilian and government organizations found that civilian firms short about 40 percent of the computer security staff they had jobs for. In the government it was worse, with government and military organizations having far more unfilled tech jobs. Worse, the government and military were more likely to put unqualified people into the Internet security jobs and hope for the best, just so they could show better stats on their Internet security staffing. One thing you cannot fake is that 2014 was, like 2013, record breaking in the number of Internet system breaches and quantities of data stolen.

 

The most common reason for the staffing problems was the unwillingness of senior management to pay competitive salaries. This means that the companies were not able to pay what qualified people demanded. The firms that were willing to pay, and got the people they needed, were usually banking and financial firms, who seemed to better appreciate the importance of Internet security.

 

Meanwhile military and government outfits in general, cannot compete (in terms of pay and benefits) for the best people and are forced to hire temps. The top tech people can be hired temporarily as consultants, but the government has to pay the very high going rate. The consulting firms snap up a lot of the qualified people by paying them what they are worth and then renting these experts out to the government and military at a high profit.

 

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