Google's 'security princess' helped White House after hack

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http://mashable.com/2015/01/06/google-security-princess-white-house-hack

By Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
Mashable.com
Jan 6, 2015

After hackers breached its internal network in late October, the White 
House got the help of a Google security engineer, Parisa Tabriz, the 
company's self-proclaimed "security princess."

Tabriz was tapped by the newly founded U.S. Digital Service, a tech task 
force for the government which launched in August, as a consultant for a 
"Top Secret / Classified project" to improve the network of the White 
House and the Executive Office of the President, according to an earlier 
version of her own resume, which has since been edited.

Tabriz's work for the White House on computer security has not been 
publicly reported before. Her resume entry was spotted on Monday by 
American Civil Liberties Union Principal Technologist Christopher 
Soghoian, who in the past exposed the FBI hacking techniques scouring the 
LinkedIn profiles of government contractors.

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