Decrypted: How bad was the US Capitol breach for cybersecurity? – TechCrunch

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        One of hundreds of pro-Trump supporters in the private office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi after storming the Capitol and breaching security in protest of the certification of the election results for President-elect Joe Biden.
        Police were overrun (when they weren’t posing for selfies) and some lawmakers’ offices were trashed and looted.
        As politicians and their staffs were told to evacuate or shelter in place, one photo of a congressional computer left unlocked still with an evacuation notice on the screen spread quickly around the internet.
        At least one computer was stolen from Sen. Jeff Merkley’s office, reports say.
        Most lawmakers don’t have ready access to classified materials, unless it’s for their work sitting on sensitive committees, such as Judiciary or Intelligence.
        The classified computers are separate from the rest of the unclassified congressional network and in a designated sensitive compartmented information facility, or SCIFs, in locked-down areas of the Capitol building.
        “No indication those [classified systems] were breached,” tweeted Mieke Eoyang, a former House Intelligence Committee staffer.
        Congressional offices deal in unclassified information.
        Classified information dealt with in designated Congressional SCIFs. No indication those were breached.
        https: t.co Ciel6BW3oU — Mieke “18 USC 2383” Eoyang (@MiekeEoyang) January 7, 2021
        But the breach will likely present a major task for Congress’ IT departments, which will have to figure out what’s been stolen and what security risks could still pose a threat to the Capitol’s network.
        Kimber Dowsett, a former government security architect, said there was no plan in place to respond to a storming of the building.
        My heart goes out to the unsung IT heroes at the Capitol tonight.
        My guess is they’ve never had to run asset inventory IR before – a daunting, stressful task in a tabletop exercise – and they’re running one (prob w


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