the Personnel Management Office Acting Inspector General confirmed that the independent office is investigating whether any “emerging threats” of sensitive information has arisen as a result Elon Musk Dodge Activists who make rapid changes on protected government networks.
“OPM Oig [office of the inspector general] It is obligated to provide independent and objective supervision of OPM programs and operations. In a message On March 7 for Democratic legislators, adding that his office is not only legally required to examine OPM safety protocols, but he does this routinely based on “risk development”. The letter stated that the office will contain specific requests issued by Democratic legislators last month in its “current work”, with a “new participation” on the potential risks of the agency related to computer systems that have been accessed or modified by the United States service.
Vent, whose predecessor launched in Jan Urging Democrats On the Parliamentary Committee for Government Control and Reform last month to investigate Wireless reports and Other ports About Dog’s efforts to reach a wide range of registration systems that host some of the most sensitive data for the government, including employees’ files on millions of government employees and their families.
“We are very concerned that the arrival of the unauthorized system can occur throughout the federal government and can pose a major threat to the personal privacy of all Americans and to the national security of our nation,” wrote Gerald Honoli, the category of the Supervisory Committee in a letter on February 6.
In addition to OPM, Democrats pressed similar security assessments in five other agencies, including in the Treasury, Public Services Department, Small Business Administration, the American International Development Agency, and the Ministry of Education. However, VINT is the only international energy agency in any of the named agencies that have responded so far, as a WIRED spokesman told.
While in the minority in the House of Representatives and the Senate, Democrats do not have a few power to conduct effective supervision outside the official listening sessions, which the Republicans must hold. During his first term, Trump’s Ministry of Justice issued instructions to notify the executive agencies that they are not permissible to answer questions from Democrats.
Republicans in Congress have adhered to the official oversight, if any, to do Doug, and choose instead Background With billionaire on the effects of the anti -theft cruciate campaign.
The executive order was to establish Dog, who was signed by the president on his first day in his post, instructions to federal agencies to provide Musk customers with “full and advanced access” for all registry systems that are not classified in order to carry out a cleansing of the government “fraud, waste and abuse”. Soon it became clear that Dog’s employees, many of them Young engineers With direct relationships with Musk’s private business, she only pays little attention to ensuring the main privacy; Avoid, for example, Compulsory assessments One of the new technologies installed on protected government networks.
“Many of the concerns that you have expressed in your message touch the problems that OPM Oig holds as part of our annual reviews of the IT and financial systems of OPM, and we plan to integrate these concerns in these current projects,” Vint writes in the March 7 letter. “We have just started a participation to assess the risks associated with new and modified information systems in OPM. We believe that in the end, our new participation will be widely treated many of your questions related to the integrity of OPM systems.”
