Memo from a departing chief of White House security lays out how an ongoing reorg under the Trump administration has left its networks more vulnerable to attack
An internal memo on cybersecurity, obtained by Axios, warns that “the White House is posturing itself to be electronically compromised once again.”
Axios Alexi McCammond
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@thepacketrat
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White House guts infosec team, “posturing itself to be compromised” again https://arstechnica.com/...
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@chey_cobb
@chey_cobb
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One of the chief cyber security officers in the WH has quit. Says security is being handed over to White House Communications and all the senior security staff will continue to walk out over a hostile work environment. @thespybrief https://www.axios.com/...
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@thenamecast
Cast
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Weakening White House cyber security, opening the door for further attacks. https://twitter.com/...
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@peterwsinger
Peter W. Singer
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“Given all the changes I've seen in the last three months, I foresee the White House is posturing itself to be electronically compromised once again.” https://twitter.com/...
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@scottjshapiro
Scott Shapiro
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Don't need cybersecurity if you want foreign powers listening https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
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@ellenspivak
Ellen Spivak
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“...at least a dozen top- or high-level officials have resigned or been pushed out of a cybersecurity mission that was established under Barack Obama to protect the White House from Russian hacking and other threats...” https://www.axios.com/...
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@rich_outlaw
@rich_outlaw
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AND THIS IS DELIBERATE EASIER FOR RUSSIAN AND CHINESE INTEL SERVICES TO BREACH @WhiteHouse https://twitter.com/...
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@jenlucpiquant
Jennifer Ouellette
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White House kicks infosec team to curb in IT office shakeup. Senior staffer quits over “highly concerning” lack of security practices. https://arstechnica.com/...
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@campuscodi
Catalin Cimpanu
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Paging Fancy Bear! If you guys can leave those Eastern European embassies alone for a week, here's a cool target https://twitter.com/...
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@alexi
Alexi McCammond
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SCOOP: An internal memo obtained by @Axios warns that “the White House is posturing itself to be electronically compromised once again.” At least 12 top- or high-level officials have resigned recently from a key WH cybersecurity team. https://www.axios.com/...
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@wylienewmark
Horkos
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“The memo doubled as a formal resignation letter by its author, Dimitrios Vastakis, who was the branch chief of the White House computer network defense.” https://twitter.com/...