In a rather embarrassing slip, the personal email account of Christopher Kojm, chairman of the US National Intelligence Council (NIC), has become the latest victim of been the cracker known as Guccifer. According to screenshots seen by The Smoking Gun, Guccifer grabbed email exchanges with 9/11 Commission members, banking …

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Wednesday 29th May 2013 20:38 GMT ecofeco

Yes, it really "that shit"

As I was saying in the Chinese hack thread, the security really is "that shit" and El Reg has been publishing articles on it for quite some time.

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  1. Wednesday 29th May 2013 22:31 GMT Jamie Jones
    
    Re: Yes, it really "that shit"
    
    @Anon : Where did he say the articles or the comments are shit?
    
    Perhaps you need to try and comprehend it better?
    
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Wednesday 29th May 2013 20:40 GMT ecofeco

About those paintings

IIRC, those painting are fakes, right?

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Wednesday 29th May 2013 20:58 GMT Don Jefe

Culprit

I think it would be funny if it was Obama responsible for this. Just screwing with everyone.

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Wednesday 29th May 2013 21:16 GMT Anonymous Coward

Audit trail

I thought using private, non-government email accounts was not allowed for any work related stuff

" email exchanges with 9/11 Commission members, banking information, personal correspondence, and documents covering the latest Obama administration's transition earlier this year."

If this is the case how do Microsoft come into it, they do not guarantee "your content (as defined later) will be safeguarded", to what extent are they sharing information and location with other companies as they see fit. How are these other companies or Microsoft vetted?

And even more so who do people working in those companies (or with access )react once they are aware of this hack, might someone then trawl through accounts related to this one with a simple search providing they had access.

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Thursday 30th May 2013 02:43 GMT ian 22

And what is your definition?

Do you use the dictionary definition of "privacy", or the Internet definition?

Clearly "privacy" == "public".

Do you and your monkey have anything to hide?

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Thursday 30th May 2013 06:47 GMT JCitizen

The US "gubbamint" is a TOTAL joke on IT security!!

I am SO tired or reading this, that is wouldn't bother me to see everyone of our US gubbamint sumbitches shot up against a wall!! This is incompetence extraordinaire!

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