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Are they reporting what is a mis-identification of automated vulnerability scanning?

We've been talking for weeks now about how NSA continually weakens the US by attacking encryption and infrastructure - and nobody is actually helping tighten our networks.

Could it be that DHS has some mandate to scan government networks?

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It could also be that

a) DHS machines are compromised

b) They are just falsifying the IP

If they're all from the same IP address, it seems likely that it's a compromised machine.

> Are they reporting what is a mis-identification of automated vulnerability scanning?

If DHS doesn't have approval/authority, isn't an automated vulnerability scan a cyberattack?

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