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SouthBayDem

(32,917 posts) Sat Aug 30, 2025, 03:06 AM Aug 30

Noem terminates 24 FEMA workers for failing to address cyber vulnerabilities

Source: NextGov

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is terminating two dozen members in the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s IT department after the DHS agency said the employees failed basic security protocols that allowed hackers to access its networks.

Noem’s office said agency Chief Information Officer Charles Armstrong and Chief Information Security Officer Gregory Edwards were terminated, alongside 22 others. They could not be immediately reached for comment.

A routine cybersecurity review of FEMA’s systems uncovered the vulnerability, DHS said in a statement, which added that the vulnerability was addressed before any sensitive data could be pilfered from its systems.

The review “uncovered several severe lapses in security that allowed the threat actor to breach FEMA’s network and threaten the entire department and the nation as a whole,” DHS said.

Read more: https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/08/noem-terminates-24-fema-workers-failing-address-cyber-vulnerabilities/407807/

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Noem terminates 24 FEMA workers for failing to address cyber vulnerabilities (Original Post) SouthBayDem Aug 30 OP

I'm not buying her reasoning. Puppyjive Aug 30 #1

a lot of information missing Angrybob2001 Aug 30 #3

You mean like letting the DOGE script kiddies pilfer the entire national database and sell it on 8 Chan? Mawspam2 Aug 30 #2

You're on to something! IzzaNuDay Aug 30 #6

Reuters notes the interesting timing... Eugene Aug 30 #4

Wondering how many of those fired matched those who wrote that letter ..... ificandream Aug 30 #8

Sounds like they just want these people out of the way so they can get their own people in there. patphil Aug 30 #5

Can we just get to the point a million or 3 of us Hornedfrog2000 Aug 30 #7

I'll be there with you! slightlv Aug 30 #10

I absolutely belief this....NOT! slightlv Aug 30 #9

I suppose they should all be thankful popsdenver Aug 30 #11

Puppyjive

(835 posts)

1. I'm not buying her reasoning.

Reply to SouthBayDem (Original post)

Sat Aug 30, 2025, 05:29 AM

Aug 30

This does not pass the smell test.

Angrybob2001

(53 posts)

3. a lot of information missing

Reply to Puppyjive (Reply #1)

Sat Aug 30, 2025, 07:18 AM

Aug 30

How long have the vulnerability been known about, and what was the severity. How long ago and who installed the systems that had the vulnerabilities. What was the real reason for firing 22 people.

Tin foil hat time. They ran across one of Corey Lewandowski grifts.

Mawspam2

(1,032 posts)

2. You mean like letting the DOGE script kiddies pilfer the entire national database and sell it on 8 Chan?

Reply to SouthBayDem (Original post)

Sat Aug 30, 2025, 05:57 AM

Aug 30

IzzaNuDay

(1,133 posts)

6. You're on to something!

Reply to Mawspam2 (Reply #2)

Sat Aug 30, 2025, 11:10 AM

Aug 30

Letting DOGE run amok probably increased hacking opportunities across the government.

Eugene

(66,354 posts)

4. Reuters notes the interesting timing...

Reply to SouthBayDem (Original post)

Sat Aug 30, 2025, 08:15 AM

Aug 30

US Homeland Security chief reports breach at FEMA, fires 23 employees

DHS did not immediately respond to a message seeking further clarity on what happened.

Noem devoted nine paragraphs of her statement about the breach to attacks on FEMA's IT staff, accusing them of "failure," "neglect," "incompetence" and dishonesty. She said 23 of them had been fired. Reuters could not immediately verify her claims.

News of the FEMA breach - and the mass firing purportedly connected to it - follows an open letter of dissent against the agency's leadership signed by scores of current and former FEMA employees. The letter warned Congress that the inexperience of top appointees of President Donald Trump's administration could lead to a catastrophe on the level of Hurricane Katrina, which ravaged the Gulf Coast of the United States 20 years ago.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/dhs-chief-noem-fires-two-211242780.html

ificandream

(11,368 posts)

8. Wondering how many of those fired matched those who wrote that letter .....

Reply to Eugene (Reply #4)

Sat Aug 30, 2025, 02:03 PM

Aug 30

patphil

(8,265 posts)

5. Sounds like they just want these people out of the way so they can get their own people in there.

Reply to SouthBayDem (Original post)

Sat Aug 30, 2025, 10:35 AM

Aug 30

FEMA will be remade in the image of Trump. Who gets aid will depend on their loyalty to Trump. Only Republican states need apply.

Hornedfrog2000

(866 posts)

7. Can we just get to the point a million or 3 of us

Reply to SouthBayDem (Original post)

Sat Aug 30, 2025, 01:54 PM

Aug 30

Swarm the whitehouse and drag his ass out yet? If Ukraine can do it, so can we.

slightlv

(6,563 posts)

10. I'll be there with you!

Reply to Hornedfrog2000 (Reply #7)

Sat Aug 30, 2025, 02:30 PM

Aug 30

slightlv

(6,563 posts)

9. I absolutely belief this....NOT!

Reply to SouthBayDem (Original post)

Sat Aug 30, 2025, 02:29 PM

Aug 30

DOGE was forced on us as an illegitimate government office to strip us of all our privacy information, and destroy the government from the inside out. Script kiddies run amok. And one of the absolute worst offenders of "vulnerabilities" is trump, himself. One of the probably least noticeable, least important as the whole realm of crises evolves, is the scapegoating of innocent employees for the sin and crimes of their bosses.

popsdenver

(481 posts)

11. I suppose they should all be thankful

Reply to SouthBayDem (Original post)

Sat Aug 30, 2025, 03:05 PM

Aug 30

That she didn't take them all to her ranch, tie them to posts and shoot them...........with the way things are going, that may come later.....

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