DHS sent in incident response teams comprised of members of the US-CERT and other agencies "to identify the scope of the potential intrusion and mitigate any risks identified," Lee said. "Based ...

Scott Kupor’s confirmation as OPM director comes as the Trump administration continues efforts to significantly scale down the size of the federal workforce.

Encryption “would not have helped” at OPM, says DHS official Attackers had valid user credentials and run of network, bypassing security.

A DHS U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team advisory, issued late June 30, mirrors warnings from security experts in June about the risks of OPM’s email notification strategy.

We’ve learned hackers first breached the Office of Personnel Management’s networks in late 2013, ... “Due to the constant monitoring systems in place at DHS and OPM, ...

The Office of Personnel Management, the Office of Management and Budget, and Department of Homeland Security all declined to testify before the House Armed Services Committee about the OPM breach ...

Meanwhile, Barron-DiCamillo, the director of DHS' U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team, seemed skeptical of reports saying number of victims could reach 14 million.

On the heels of the recently reported data breach at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) which affected millions of current and former federal employees, the House Committee on Homeland ...

Homeland Security officials on Thursday confirmed that hackers may have breached the network of the Office of Personnel Management, which essentially functions as the federal government’s human ...

The charts below illustrate the different personnel systems coming into the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and why it's necessary to harmonize them. As George Nesterczuk writes in his ...

Representatives from three federal agencies made a last-minute decision to evade testimony in a classified congressional briefing on Tuesday. The Office of Personnel Management, the Office of ...