Security "R" Us ...

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Pentagon Pete, the DOW genius, the ultimate warrior, has security issues. Seems he lacks the wherewithal of what communication security is all about. Back in the Pleistocene, yours truly was a 1st Lt. in charge of a very important facility charged with to and from communications from country X to the states. Having top secret clearance demanded that said communications handled by the facility had to be strac “ “Skilled, Tough, Ready, Around the Clock.” or heads would roll, including mine, something PP has no concept of understanding as to why this basic tenet of communication secuity must be adhered to 24/7.

To whit ...

Signalgate leaker Pete Hegseth just handed a multimillion-dollar contract to protect the Defense Department from hackers to a firm that allegedly couldn’t even protect its own employees from having their data stolen.

The Defense Secretary came under fire last year for disclosing sensitive details of U.S. military strikes to a journalist who’d been accidentally added to a group chat on Signal.

Hegseth used the messaging app, which is not approved for official government communications, with other top members of Donald Trump’s cabinet, including Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, and CIA Director John Ratcliffe.

It gets better ...

The Daily Beast can now reveal that after Hegseth’s jaw-dropping security blunder, his department has awarded almost $100 million in contracts for protecting IT systems at U.S. facilities across the world to a firm hit by a massive breach that saw criminals make off with sensitive personal data on at least 45,000 people. The new deal is to provide and maintain electronic systems to protect Navy bases from cyber attacks, as well as emergency systems to help manage physical threats against those facilities.

Hegseth's new security deal comes as Trump wages war with one of the most hostile cyberattack actors on the planet.

Virginia-based group M.C. Dean’s latest contract with the Pentagon landed on Feb. 26, two days before Donald Trump went to war with Iran. The Islamic regime is one of the most adversarial hacking forces on the planet, carrying out repeated attacks against U.S. military assets, industrial infrastructure, banks, and elections. Iran is presently bombing American targets around the Persian Gulf in retaliation for Trump’s strikes.

The gift that keeps on giving ...

Criminals first got into M.C. Dean’s systems in December 2021, accessing sensitive details of employees, contractors, and other individuals’ driver’s licenses, Social Security numbers, and health insurance information. The month before, the group had won a $250m Pentagon IT contract for dozens of DOD facilities across the country—including the nuclear bunker where Dick Cheney was taken on 9/11.

Hegseth's new security deal comes as Trump wages war with one of the most hostile cyberattack
actors on the planet. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

One cannot make this up