Cybersecurity Breach at Congressional Budget Office Remains a Live Threat

Reading the short article it feels like the old routine of 1. Cyber incident, 2. sparse information in all directions, 3. after fixed, all personnel returns to old habits with higher level of insecurity against a blurry, unspecific threat and back to square one. while the few sec op folks try to train employees to better secure the systems without really improving the crucial understanding of how such incidents really work. Or do I completely misinterpret such causalities?

> “Maintain a high level of vigilance and verify the legitimacy of CBO communications by confirming with the sender via telephone that they sent the message,” the note continues.

Depends how sophisticated and incentivized the attacker, of course.

in other news, busses in Norway have been found to have had internet conectivity installed by there chinese makers,spy busses and spy cranes, which is supposed to terrify us enough that we stop demanding $10000 chinese electric cars, which will spy on us, and send pictures of our children, likely throwing sandwiches at each other, back to china, for analysis of our eating habits and child rearing practice, so that they can wage profound psychological warfare on us, yes you, YOU, are making your child, FAT!