Trust no one: VA’s mindset for the digital world

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Trust no one: VA’s mindset for the digital world

The nation’s increasingly complex computing environment constantly withstands ever-evolving attempts to hijack data resources, compromising sensitive information. In 2020 and 2021, ransomware attacks on SolarWinds’s Orion software and Colonial Pipeline’s billing infrastructure exposed significant security weaknesses in the government’s software supply chain, impacting private and federal computer systems.

To help protect the United States from increasingly sophisticated cyber threats, the White House issued Executive Order 14028, Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity, “to ensure baseline security practices are in place, to migrate the federal government to a ‘Zero Trust Architecture,’ and to realize the security benefits of cloud-based infrastructure while mitigating associated risks.”

Trust no one: VA’s mindset for the digital world - VA News

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On 10/19/2022 at 11:02 PM, brokensoldier244th said:

Social engineering- the one thing you can’t tech your way out of. Mitnick wasn’t  that great of a hacker of systems- he was, however, much more dangerous. He was good at hacking people.

He was clever until he got arrested. I read that when he was in prison, he lost most of his teeth to another inmate. That was a sign that he was smart enough to get one over on someone, but lacked street smarts...

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Or, he traded them on purpose. I worked in a prison for a few years, inmates trade all kinds of weird shot to each other.