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Data center security flaws
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Shelby said the Department
of Administrative Services
agreed with all the auditors’
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main data center in Salem, the ument its security processes.
Hackers recently accessed
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data at the center, Gov. Kate
problems.
The vulnerabilities were out- Brown revealed last month, but
lined in a secret March 2012 let- Shelby said that breach was un-
ter to Michael Jordan, who was related to the security problems
at the time director of the De- DXGLWRUV LGHQWL¿HG +RZHYHU
partment of Administrative Ser- Shelby said one of the of the
vices, which manages the data suggestions auditors laid out
warehouse. The facility stores in the letter would have helped
data for multiple state agencies. IT staff to more quickly assess
The extent of the problem which types of data attackers
remains unclear, because the accessed.
The state data center had
agency declined to release the
letter in response to a public not yet installed centralized log
records request from the EO management software, which
Media Group/Pamplin Media would have allowed employ-
Group Capital Bureau. Auditors ees to more quickly assess the
are in the midst of another pe- scope of the data breach, Shel-
riodic review of security at the by said.
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center and they expect to com-
unlocked, or a window’s open,”
plete the report this summer.
State agencies have strug- Shelby said. “The next step is to
gled for years to keep Orego- ¿QGRXWLIDQ\WKLQJ¶VEHHQWDN-
nians’ data secure. Earlier this en or moved.”
The data center is now in the
month, the EO Media Group/
Pamplin Media Group Capital process of installing the cen-
Bureau reported that outdat- tralized log management soft-
ed security protocols on state ware, an improvement that was
websites left Oregonians vul- planned before the breach. IT
nerable to attackers when they employees ultimately learned
SDLGFKLOGVXSSRUW¿OHGXQHP- hackers had accessed metadata
ployment claims and completed about the movement of infor-
mation across the state comput-
other online transactions.
One reason the Department er network.
The public portion of the
of Administrative Services
does not want the public to see 2012 data center security audit
the 2012 letter is that attackers only hinted at the security vul-
could take advantage of securi- nerabilities that auditors found.
ty weaknesses at the data center It focused on improper handling
of media tapes and incomplete
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Matt Shelby, a spokesman or not fully tested recovery pro-
for the Department of Admin- grams used after events such as
istrative Services, wrote in an major computer crashes.
The only mention of weak-
email that “there is little be-
yond the header that we would nesses that could leave the cen-
release because it discusses past ter vulnerable to hackers was a
and current security issues at VLQJOHVHQWHQFHWKDWVWDWHG¿QG-
ings of a security review, one of
the State Data Center.”
Nonetheless, Shelby said the two objectives of the audit,
in an interview Tuesday that ZHUHVXPPDUL]HGLQWKHFRQ¿-
according to state Chief Infor- dential letter to Jordan.
The report was unusual be-
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Richards, employees have ad- cause state auditors usually pro-
dressed approximately one- vide at least a general descrip-
third of the security issues cited tion of the range of problems
they found and analysis of the
by auditors.
“The other two-thirds, causes. For example, a 2010 au-
ZH¶YH PDGH VLJQL¿FDQW SURJ- dit of security at the data center
ress,” Shelby said. “By that, I clearly stated there were prob-
mean 50 percent to 75 percent lems.
“In our prior audits of the
of what we think we need to
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do.”
By HILLARY BORRUD
Capital Bureau
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that collectively heightened the
risk that applications hosted at
the (state data center) could be
compromised,” auditors wrote.
“During this audit we con-
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rity issues continued to exist.”
A spokeswoman for Brown,
who was secretary of state and
oversaw the Audits Division in
2012, referred questions about
why the 2012 security concerns
were kept secret to the current
Secretary of State Jeanne At-
kins. Tony Green, a spokesman
for Atkins, said it would require
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ure out why auditors disclosed
security concerns in 2010 but
not in 2012.
“But generally speaking, au-
ditors weigh the security risks
known at that time against the
best way to get the recommen-
dations implemented,” Green
wrote in an email. “Between
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analysis produced different an-
swers.”
The Secretary of State’s Of-
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2012 letter.
“If you publish a report that
says this agency is vulnerable
to a hack that’s kind of like
printing an invitation to hack
it,” Green wrote.
Brown’s communications
director Kristen Grainger said
that as secretary of state and
now as governor, Brown has
also shared the concern that
identifying security weaknesses
could make it easier for attack-
ers to access Oregonians’ data.
“I think to a certain extent
she wants to be very careful not
to bring this to the attention of
hackers or people who would
do harm to the state’s IT ef-
forts,” Grainger said.
However, Grainger said
Brown wants to address what
has become a “long line” of
data breaches at state agencies
— hackers accessed databases
at the Secretary of State’s Of-
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ment Department in 2014 —
and that is why the governor
wants to hire an independent
expert to review state IT man-
agement and vulnerabilities.
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laboration between EO Media
Group and Pamplin Media
Group.
Gordon King/Yakima Herald-Republic via AP, File
In this 2008, file photo, Will Zack pulls a sockeye salmon from a hoop net
on his family’s fishing scaffold on the Columbia River just east of the Bon-
neville Dam near Skamania, Wash. Congressional delegations from Wash-
ington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana are demanding that the Obama ad-
ministration begin negotiations with Canada to update a landmark treaty
that governs the operation of dams on the Columbia, which is North
America’s fourth-largest river.
Northwest lawmakers seek
treaty talks with Canada
suggest changes beginning in 2024 with
10 years’ notice.
Numerous issues already have
SPOKANE, Wash. — The entire emerged.
For instance, the United States con-
congressional delegation from Washing-
ton, Oregon, Idaho and Montana is de- tends it should pay dramatically less to
manding that the Obama administration &DQDGD IRU WKH YDULRXV EHQH¿WV LW JHWV
begin negotiations with Canada to up- through the treaty.
Also, Native American tribes in the
date a landmark treaty that governs the
operation of dams on North America’s U.S. and Canada are pushing for the
return of salmon runs that some of the
fourth-largest river.
The treaty, signed in 1964, is import- dams destroyed.
Tribes are pushing for the treaty to
ant because the Columbia River basin’s
dams affect the economy, environment include salmon restoration to the upper
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residents in the four states, along more northern Washington state. The U.S. has
than 1,200 miles of the river and its trib- said the two countries should study the
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utaries.
“Given the 2024 deadline for certain that dam. But Canada contends restoring
aspects of the treaty, we ... urge you to ¿VKPLJUDWLRQDQGKDELWDWLVQRWDWUHDW\
initiate negotiations with Canada in issue.
The new letter follows one sent to
2015,” the 26 members of the Senate and
the president last year requesting action
House wrote to the president this week.
The letter expressed concerns about by mid-2014. It is intended to “express
the Obama administration’s slow pace consternation with how the process has
unfolded thus far.”
on the complicated matter.
“We remain concerned about ... the
The treaty governs operations of hy-
droelectric dams and reservoirs on the prioritization this matter is receiving
Columbia River. It has no expiration within your Administration and the De-
date, but either country can cancel it or partment of State,” the letter states.
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Associated Press
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