We are being attacked from without, and from within.
Via Fox News:
The spectacular hacking assault on the federal government’s Office of Personnel Management is just part of a broader, systematic campaign against the most valuable U.S. cyber-assets, public and private, that is ongoing and likely includes operations inside classified U.S. government networks, according to a group of top-level experts on government cybersecurity consulted by Fox News.
Taken together, the hacking waves are giving U.S. adversaries the ability to be “engaged against the whole fabric of U.S. society,” one of the experts said. “Because our systems function fine in peacetime, we don’t know their capability to disrupt them. For all we know they are still there.”
The extent of the current penetration is well known in in intelligence circles, he added. “The intelligence community has seen the data going out the door.”
“Our whole logistical system, for example, is Internet-enabled,” he added.
All of the experts consulted—in some cases they requested anonymity– had deep knowledge about federal information systems and extensive experience in positions that had oversight that extended beyond single government departments.
“I’m really worried, we’re being outmaneuvered,” one of the top-level experts, who has worked in both the Obama and George W. Bush administrations, told Fox News. “The average American person has no understanding of this.”
The same expert called the situation “shameful” and warned that the extent of the possible penetration of government databases is so deep that “it’s going to take the next Administration one to two years to get up to speed on how serious this is.”