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October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month!
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– News covered by Quincy Quarry News with commentary added.
Sloppy City of Quincy Cybersecurity lost big bucks
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In a darkly amusing bit of irony, one of Quincy Quarry News’ cyber security interns advised the Quarry’s City Editor that the recently released Massachusetts Public Employees Retirement Administration Commission (“PERAC”) report on the February 2021 cyberheist of $3.5 million from the City of Quincy Public Employees Retirement fund – a report which torched both the retirement fund operations and the City of Quincy’s woefully lax cybersecurity practices – was released during Cybersecurity month.
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Needless to say, Quincy Quarry’s ever-growing legions of loyal readers know that there was no point in the Quarry bothering to reach out to Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch for comment even though he has long touted himself as the Chief Executive of the City of Quincy and thus in turn can only properly be seen as the person ultimately accountable for any and all things that go wrong on his watch while mayor.
After all, the buck should stop at Mayor Koch’s desk; however, it would appear that such is not the case when three and a half million of them are involved.
For example, Koch spokesmodel Pinocchio Walkbacker recently announced that those variously tied to the Koch Maladministration whose sloppiness facilitated the cyberheist oh so readily happening will not be appearing before the City Council for a well-deserved grilling in spite of Pinocchio’s twice going on the record that such would happen after the PERAC report was released.
FYI, it’s not my fault. NONE of it is my fault.
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So what also for the fact that the City of Quincy was hit with denial of service cyber attacks both BEFORE the cyberheist as well as then again AFTER the cyberheist and which itself only came to light when it was exposéd by Quincy Quarry’s media brethren at WCBV Channel 5 a full year after the heist went down.
Obviously, one would think that three strikes and one should be out of office; however, apparently such is not the case when Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch is at the plate.
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If City Hall understood cyber security, the pension board would not have lost $3.5 million. Amazingly, the city’s good old boy IT peeps are still employed by taxpayers.
In Quincy, October is Cyber Heist DISCOVERY Month.
A.K.A, Koch’s October surprise!
Shouldn’t the CEO of the Quincy Company be fired if a resignation is not forthcoming as the buck stops there? Oh, wait a minute, the missing $3.5 million bucks did not stop there. The $3.5 million left the country.