US Cyber Threats Persist With Limited Actions to Resolve Vulnerabilities

Cyber threats in the United States persisted in 2015 and yielded the largest cyber breach ever that affected 21.5 million Americans as the government’s measures to protect data and networks have been woefully insufficient.WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — In June, the US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) reported that the personal records of millions of federal government employees and retirees have been hacked, including those who have applied for security clearance. The authorities soon dismissed the OPM director, but never officially made attribution for the attack.

The shock of the massive OPM breach led to numerous discussions on cyber protections, and in the final legislative week of the year, the US Congress is poised to pass legislation to incentivize private sector cyber threat information sharing.

After Edward Snowden’s leaks of the National Security Agency’s (NSA) collaboration with US technology companies to carry out massive spying, privacy advocates and technology companies fought back against the push for information sharing mandates that would give US law enforcement new access to private users’ data. For the full article click here 

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