Anne Katherine Carnell is an Australian businesswoman and former Liberal Party politician,who served as the third Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) from 1995 to 2000.
James R. Langevin is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Rhode Island's 2nd congressional district from 2001 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party,he is the first quadriplegic to serve in Congress;Langevin was appointed to be the first quadriplegic speaker pro tempore of the U.S. House of Representatives in 2019. Langevin did not seek reelection in 2022.
The United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is an independent agency of the United States government that manages the United States federal civil service. The agency provides federal human resources policy,oversight,and support,and tends to healthcare (FEHB),life insurance (FEGLI),and retirement benefits for federal government employees,retirees,and their dependents.
Michele Marie Leonhart is an American career law enforcement officer who served as Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) from 2010 to 2015,as well as in an acting capacity from 2007 to 2010. After the resignation of Administrator Karen P. Tandy in the fall of 2007,Leonhart also served as Acting Administrator of the DEA. On February 2,2010,President Barack Obama nominated Leonhart for the position of DEA Administrator.
A data breach is a security violation,in which sensitive,protected or confidential data is copied,transmitted,viewed,stolen,altered or used by an individual unauthorized to do so. Other terms are unintentional information disclosure,data leak,information leakage and data spill. Incidents range from concerted attacks by individuals who hack for personal gain or malice,organized crime,political activists or national governments,to poorly configured system security or careless disposal of used computer equipment or data storage media. Leaked information can range from matters compromising national security,to information on actions which a government or official considers embarrassing and wants to conceal. A deliberate data breach by a person privy to the information,typically for political purposes,is more often described as a "leak".
Morrell John Berry is an American former government official who was named President of the American Australian Association in 2016. Berry was director of the United States Office of Personnel Management from 2009 to 2013 and United States Ambassador to Australia from 2013 to 2016.
Barack Obama assumed office as President of the United States on January 20,2009,and his term ended on January 20,2017. The president has the authority to nominate members of his Cabinet to the United States Senate for confirmation under the Appointments Clause of the United States Constitution.
Christine M. Griffin is an American lawyer. From 2011 to 2013 she served as Assistant Secretary for Disability Policies and Programs for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services.
e-QIP is a secure website managed by OPM that is designed to automate the common security questionnaires used to process federal background investigations. e-QIP was created in 2003 as part of the larger e-Clearance initiative designed to speed up the process of federal background investigations conducted by OPM's Federal Investigative Services (FIS). e-QIP is a front end data collection tool that has automated the SF-86,questionnaire for national security investigations as well as the SF-85P,the questionnaire for public trust positions. e-QIP allows applicants for federal jobs to enter,edit and submit their investigation data over a secure internet connection to their sponsoring agency for review and approval.
Cyberwarfare by China is the aggregate of all combative activities in the cyberspace which are taken by organs of the People's Republic of China,including affiliated advanced persistent threat groups,against other countries.
Erin Cathleen Conaton is a former United States Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness. She previously served as Under Secretary of the Air Force.
Stewart Liff is an American author and management consultant known for his work in Human Resources Management,Performance Management,Visual Management and team development. Liff has served in various senior government personnel and management positions and as a consultant and teacher to government agencies and businesses. He has written seven books,is a frequent conference speaker,and is a regular contributing author to government and professional publications.
Julia Ann Pierson is an American former law enforcement official. She served as the 23rd Director of the United States Secret Service. Pierson became director on March 27,2013. Amid a series of security lapses involving the agency,Pierson resigned on October 1,2014.
Avril Danica Haines is an American lawyer and senior government official who serves as the director of national intelligence in the Biden administration. She is the first woman to serve in this role. Haines previously served as Deputy National Security Advisor and Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the Obama administration. Prior to her appointment to the CIA,she served as Deputy Counsel to the President for National Security Affairs in the Office of White House Counsel.
The Office of Personnel Management data breach was a 2015 data breach targeting Standard Form 86 (SF-86) U.S. government security clearance records retained by the United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM). One of the largest breaches of government data in U.S. history,the attack was carried out by an advanced persistent threat based in China,widely believed to be the Jiangsu State Security Department,a subsidiary of China's Ministry of State Security spy agency.
Beth Frances Cobert is an American businesswoman and has been a government official. She served as the acting Director for the United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM) from July 10,2015 to January 20,2017. As of March 2021,she is Chief Operating Officer of the Markle Foundation and Chief Executive Officer of Skillful,an initiative of that foundation.
Kiran Arjandas Ahuja is an American attorney and activist serving as the director of the United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM). She served as the chief of staff to the OPM director from 2015 to 2017. She assumed that position after serving for six years as the director of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. An Indian-born American,she has also been a lawyer with the United States Department of Justice and a founding director of a non-profit,the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum. In 2017,she became the CEO of Philanthropy Northwest.
Lena Lovato Archuleta was an American educator,school librarian,and administrator in New Mexico and Colorado for more than three decades. In 1976 she became the first Hispanic woman principal in the Denver Public Schools system. She was also the first Hispanic president of the Denver Classroom Teachers' Association and the Colorado Library Association,and the first female president of the Latin American Education Foundation. She was instrumental in the founding of several political and community advocacy groups for Latinos and served on numerous city and community boards. Following her retirement in 1979,she became a full-time volunteer for the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP). She was inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame in 1985. In 2002 the Denver Public Schools system dedicated the Lena L. Archuleta Elementary School in northeast Denver in her honor.
On March 27,2016,hackers under the banner "Anonymous Philippines" hacked into the website of the Philippine Commission on Elections (COMELEC) and defaced it. The hackers left a message calling for tighter security measures on the vote counting machines (VCM) to be used during the 2016 Philippine general election on May 9. Within the day a separate group of hackers,LulzSec Pilipinas posted an online link to what it claims to be the entire database of COMELEC and updated the post to include three mirror link to the index of the database's downloadable files. The leaked files by LulzSec Pilipinas amounts to 340 gigabytes.
Janine Anne Davidson is an American public servant,known for expertise on topics such as military operations,U.S. foreign policy and national security policy as well as higher education leadership.
