{"id":1754525,"date":"2022-11-29T06:09:15","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T11:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1754525"},"modified":"2022-11-29T09:19:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T14:19:49","slug":"pentagon-has-no-policy-to-track-attempted-russian-chinese-and-iranian-cyber-attacks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pentagon-has-no-policy-to-track-attempted-russian-chinese-and-iranian-cyber-attacks-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Has No Policy to Track Attempted Russian, Chinese, and Iranian Cyber Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpentagon-has-no-policy-to-track-attempted-russian-chinese-and-iranian-cyber-attacks-2%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1754525&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/\">National Security<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Defense Department hit with more than 12,000 attempted hacks since 2015<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"736\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/GettyImages-1228221670-736x491-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt=\"China hack\" srcset=\"denied:data:image\/gif;base64, R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/GettyImages-1228221670-736x491.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/GettyImages-1228221670-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/GettyImages-1228221670-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/GettyImages-1228221670-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tGetty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/adam-kredo\/\" title=\"Posts by Adam Kredo\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Adam Kredo<\/a> \u2022 November 28, 2022 12:00 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The Pentagon has failed to put in place policies to track attempted\u00a0cyberattacks by Russia, China, Iran, and other malicious hackers leaving the U.S. government with incomplete information on the more than 12,000 attempted hacks from enemies since 2015,\u00a0according to findings by a federal watchdog.<\/p>\n<p>Hackers have attempted to penetrate computer systems belonging to the Defense Department with more than 1,500 cyberattacks per year, according to data from 2015 to 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gao.gov\/assets\/gao-23-105084.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published<\/a> by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), a federal investigatory group that recently determined the Pentagon is often not properly logging these attacks or reporting them to leadership. China, Iran, and Russia conducted many of the most high-profile attacks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;DOD\u2019s system for reporting all incidents often contained incomplete information and DOD could not always demonstrate that they had notified appropriate leadership of relevant critical incidents,&#8221; according to the GAO. &#8220;Until DOD assigns such responsibility, DOD does not have assurance that its leadership has an accurate picture of the department\u2019s cybersecurity posture.&#8221; These failures are primarily due to the Defense Department\u2019s failure to assign an organization the task of tracking these incidents, even though the agency itself and Congress have mandated officials do so.<\/p>\n<p>Though the number of reported cyber incidents have dropped during the past several years\u2014from 3,880 in 2015 to 948 in 2021\u2014without the ability to fully detail and report these incidents, Pentagon leaders and those who have their personal information breached may not know an attack took place, according to the report. The failure to put safeguards in place serves as a boon to malicious cyber hackers, including foreign nations that are trying daily to penetrate these networks.<\/p>\n<p>The DOD still &#8220;lacks an accountable organization and consistent guidance to ensure complete and updated reporting of all cyber incidents,&#8221; according to the GAO. Reports that were submitted &#8220;were often incomplete and not always updated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ninety-one percent of the reports reviewed by government investigators &#8220;did not include information on the discovery date of the incident, hindering DOD\u2019s ability to determine whether incidents were reported \u2026 in a timely manner,&#8221; according to the report. Nearly 70 percent of the reports did not include information about the specific type of cyberattack, &#8220;limiting DOD\u2019s ability to identify trends in the prevalence of various threats affecting its networks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Those in charge of monitoring and reporting hack attacks &#8220;also did not consistently notify DOD leadership of incidents that had a detrimental impact on DOD\u2019s ability to perform its mission or availability of its networks,&#8221; according to the report, which found little evidence that leadership knew about an estimated 47 percent of cyber incidents logged from 2015 to 2020.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Until DOD assigns responsibility for ensuring complete and updated incident reporting and proper leadership notification, the department will not have assurance that its leadership has an accurate picture of its posture,&#8221; the report warns. &#8220;As a result, the department may miss opportunities to assess threats and weaknesses, gather intelligence, support commanders, and share information.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;vast majority&#8221; of cyberattacks logged during the reporting period were &#8220;malicious logic&#8221; penetrations, a hacking technique in which malicious software is unwittingly downloaded onto a computer and then used by an adversary to gain access and information without the user\u2019s knowledge. These accounted for more than 11,500 of the incidents logged from 2015 to 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Other incidents included &#8220;unauthorized privileged access to an information system&#8221; and denial-of-service attacks, a crude form of hacking that disrupts a computer system.<\/p>\n<p>While the DOD established two mechanisms to track and report cyberattacks, the GAO found that it &#8220;has not fully implemented either process.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Security Defense Department hit with more than 12,000 attempted hacks since 2015  Getty Images  Adam Kredo \u2022 November 28, 2022 12:00 pm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1753817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1754525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1754525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1753817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1754525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1754525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1754525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}