Comments on: Government computer security still sucks http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2005/07/10/government-computer-security-still-sucks/ Protect yourself from government gaffes, bureaucratic blunders and incumbent incompetence Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:25:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Hackers hit Pentagon; NSA struggles to keep up - Homeland Stupidity http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2005/07/10/government-computer-security-still-sucks/#comment-1425 Hackers hit Pentagon; NSA struggles to keep up - Homeland Stupidity Wed, 05 Jul 2006 16:40:25 +0000 http://www.ioerror.us/?p=228#comment-1425 [...] In the meantime, the government is employing band-aid fixes to patch up its computers primarily after they’re wounded in hacker attacks. Meanwhile, government computer security still sucks governmentwide, despite a 2002 law requiring agencies to improve their information security practices. [...] [...] In the meantime, the government is employing band-aid fixes to patch up its computers primarily after they’re wounded in hacker attacks. Meanwhile, government computer security still sucks governmentwide, despite a 2002 law requiring agencies to improve their information security practices. [...]

]]> By: Homeland Security Architect? - Homeland Stupidity http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2005/07/10/government-computer-security-still-sucks/#comment-1424 Homeland Security Architect? - Homeland Stupidity Thu, 08 Jun 2006 19:04:42 +0000 http://www.ioerror.us/?p=228#comment-1424 [...] As previously reported, computer security at the Department of Homeland Security sucks. I mean really sucks. (It sucks government-wide, but it’s particularly ironic that it sucks at DHS.) And there’s no end in sight to the sheer stupidity of how DHS’s IT infrastructure is being mismanaged. [...] [...] As previously reported, computer security at the Department of Homeland Security sucks. I mean really sucks. (It sucks government-wide, but it’s particularly ironic that it sucks at DHS.) And there’s no end in sight to the sheer stupidity of how DHS’s IT infrastructure is being mismanaged. [...]

]]> By: “Biggest military hacker of all time” looking for UFO evidence - Homeland Stupidity http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2005/07/10/government-computer-security-still-sucks/#comment-1423 “Biggest military hacker of all time” looking for UFO evidence - Homeland Stupidity Sat, 27 May 2006 00:01:47 +0000 http://www.ioerror.us/?p=228#comment-1423 [...] Once again the U.S. is exaggerating the truth to make hackers look far more evil than they really are. First off, you have the ludicrous claim that one person somehow caused $700,000 worth of damage to computer systems — from the other side of the Atlantic Ocean! This is not entirely true; most of this dollar amount will invariably be the costs of securing the computers in question. But since government computer security royally sucks in the first place, it’s doubtful such security will ever be properly implemented anyway. That’s an interesting way to get your security measures paid for: just wait for a hacker to walk in, and try to stick him with the bill. Whether the hacker is right or wrong, it is absolutely wrong for the government — or a business — to leave its computers and data insecure hoping to hit the jackpot when someone invariably breaks in. [...] [...] Once again the U.S. is exaggerating the truth to make hackers look far more evil than they really are. First off, you have the ludicrous claim that one person somehow caused $700,000 worth of damage to computer systems — from the other side of the Atlantic Ocean! This is not entirely true; most of this dollar amount will invariably be the costs of securing the computers in question. But since government computer security royally sucks in the first place, it’s doubtful such security will ever be properly implemented anyway. That’s an interesting way to get your security measures paid for: just wait for a hacker to walk in, and try to stick him with the bill. Whether the hacker is right or wrong, it is absolutely wrong for the government — or a business — to leave its computers and data insecure hoping to hit the jackpot when someone invariably breaks in. [...]

]]> By: Secret Service computer security sucks - Homeland Security or Homeland Stupidity http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2005/07/10/government-computer-security-still-sucks/#comment-1422 Secret Service computer security sucks - Homeland Security or Homeland Stupidity Thu, 05 Jan 2006 08:12:56 +0000 http://www.ioerror.us/?p=228#comment-1422 [...] Government computer security, and government IT usage in general, has sucked for as long as the government has had computers. In the last few months, I let you know about problems with FEMA’s computer systems, a Customs and Border Protection computer snafu, the unsearchable Transportation Security Administration database, the occasionally missing in action Homeland Security web site, breaches of security at the Internal Revenue Service, and government computer security overall sucking. And I’ve barely been able to scratch the surface. Filed under: Homeland Stupidity [...] [...] Government computer security, and government IT usage in general, has sucked for as long as the government has had computers. In the last few months, I let you know about problems with FEMA’s computer systems, a Customs and Border Protection computer snafu, the unsearchable Transportation Security Administration database, the occasionally missing in action Homeland Security web site, breaches of security at the Internal Revenue Service, and government computer security overall sucking. And I’ve barely been able to scratch the surface. Filed under: Homeland Stupidity [...]

]]> By: Homeland Security management sucks - Homeland Security or Homeland Stupidity http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2005/07/10/government-computer-security-still-sucks/#comment-1421 Homeland Security management sucks - Homeland Security or Homeland Stupidity Wed, 04 Jan 2006 06:06:30 +0000 http://www.ioerror.us/?p=228#comment-1421 [...] But that’s not all that’s in this report. It also criticizes DHS’s accounting (yep, the books suck, too), its lack of effective oversight, the fact that their computer systems suck, the fact that it still hasn’t created a national threat database, and much more. Filed under: Homeland Stupidity, Terrorism, Hurricane Katrina [...] [...] But that’s not all that’s in this report. It also criticizes DHS’s accounting (yep, the books suck, too), its lack of effective oversight, the fact that their computer systems suck, the fact that it still hasn’t created a national threat database, and much more. Filed under: Homeland Stupidity, Terrorism, Hurricane Katrina [...]

]]> By: Navy, Marines block access to Web- based email - IO ERROR http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2005/07/10/government-computer-security-still-sucks/#comment-1420 Navy, Marines block access to Web- based email - IO ERROR Wed, 19 Oct 2005 14:01:10 +0000 http://www.ioerror.us/?p=228#comment-1420 [...] Government computer security still sucks, it seems. And instead of actually installing security measures, such as anti-virus software, on the at-risk computers, they instead block access to e-mail? [...] [...] Government computer security still sucks, it seems. And instead of actually installing security measures, such as anti-virus software, on the at-risk computers, they instead block access to e-mail? [...]

]]> By: IO ERROR http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2005/07/10/government-computer-security-still-sucks/#comment-1419 IO ERROR Tue, 12 Jul 2005 01:32:56 +0000 http://www.ioerror.us/?p=228#comment-1419 <strong>“Biggest military hacker of all time” looking for UFO evidence</strong> Gary McKinnon, 39, of Wood Green, north London, was arrested and accused of breaking into 97 US military computer systems and causing $700,000 in damages. ... “Biggest military hacker of all time” looking for UFO evidence

Gary McKinnon, 39, of Wood Green, north London, was arrested and accused of breaking into 97 US military computer systems and causing $700,000 in damages.

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