From: FierceGovernmentIT
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“In terms of advanced persistent threats, the OPM breach was not a sophisticated attack,” states a July report (pdf) from the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology.
“The failure of [the Homeland Security Department] or OPM systems to detect the breach does not indicate a level of sophistication on behalf of the adversary; rather, it only shows that the breach was sophisticated for 1970’s legacy systems that operate on COBOL mainframe applications that have not been updated since the Y2K bug,” add report authors who include researchers from Carnegie Mellon, (ISC)2, HP and Securetronix, among others.
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