Gli organi statali irlandesi utilizzano software per la password concesso in licenza dall’intelligence russa
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/07/17/state-bodies-are-using-password-software-with-links-to-russia/
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Gli organi statali irlandesi utilizzano software per la password concesso in licenza dall’intelligence russa
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/07/17/state-bodies-are-using-password-software-with-links-to-russia/
di Banania2020
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As long as you don’t open Windows around Putin you’ll be grand.
Why does our government suck at the most basic shit
But the israeli softwares ok right?
Seems ill-advised.
Liscensed? This is like saying we both use Windows
Well it is our government. They aren’t the brightest when it comes to budgets, ideas or understanding rural Ireland.
There is actually another IT article on the same:
[https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/07/17/how-russian-password-technology-made-its-way-into-irish-state-agencies/](https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/07/17/how-russian-password-technology-made-its-way-into-irish-state-agencies/)
What th fuck!? Joke shop
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Ooooooof course they do.
Got the leaving cert, finished school. Civil service job. No work experience but given a job to procure software.
Between this and watching prime time last night about 5000000 they squandered on Irish rail, it’s depressing. Why can’t they be competent? Is it cos of all the nepotism?
Nothing like sourcing your cybersecurity from the country actively trying to hack everyone, top work lads.
The state of that
I’m more worried they’re using passwords at all. Not a secure way of running things.
Why to use Bitwarden when you can use something else…?
A total lack of due diligence… doesn’t sound like us at all. It’ll be grand.
The government will need to commission an investigation into the matter. It will cost 2 million and the report will be available in 2-3 years.
The link to the Russian element was uncovered by a consortium of news outlets doing an investigation. It doesn’t seem like something that would have been easily spotted. Deutsche Post are among others using it.
It’s the Irish government. They probably mostly use ‘Passw0rd’ as their password anyway.
The root of a lot of this is actually our constitution. There is no head of Cybersecurity for the Irish Public Sector. There is a CIO but they have no power to implement anything department by department.
The reason for this is that in our state the Minister for every department has complete autonomy and responsibility for his/her department and can’t be dictated to by any overarching department or other minister.
This was obviously done to protect the departments from outside interference but it did not foresee the internet or IT in general. As a result every single department must mange their own IT from their own budget with their own people.
So there is no government wide mandatory architecture, policy etc.
The NCSC and OGCIO/DPER provide advice and some shared services but department have to sign up to them, they can’t be forced.
Nis2 might speed things up, it’s being legislated for at the moment and carries big consequences for ministers if their departments are caught out (ministers barred from public office in the event of a badly managed breach for example)