http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/04/15/customs-system-left-open-to-virus-threat/ 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 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/04/15/customs-system-left-open-to-virus-threat/#comment-6813 The cover-up of Homeland Security’s virus infection - Homeland Stupidity Tue, 07 Nov 2006 21:25:24 +0000 http://www.ioerror.us/2006/04/15/customs-system-left-open-to-virus-threat/#comment-6813 [...] Last August a Windows virus infected over 1,300 computers which Customs and Border Protection uses to screen foreign travelers visiting the U.S. The bureau almost immediately tried to cover up the incident. [...] [...] Last August a Windows virus infected over 1,300 computers which Customs and Border Protection uses to screen foreign travelers visiting the U.S. The bureau almost immediately tried to cover up the incident. [...]

]]> http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/04/15/customs-system-left-open-to-virus-threat/#comment-6812 Bureaucrats fight to hide US-VISIT incompetence - Homeland Stupidity Fri, 12 May 2006 08:35:43 +0000 http://www.ioerror.us/2006/04/15/customs-system-left-open-to-virus-threat/#comment-6812 [...] A major component of the program is screening of visitors’ travel documents and fingerprints at ports of entry. And when something goes wrong with that part, the arrival lines start getting very long, as they did on August 18. That’s the day that US-VISIT’s computer network was hit by the Zotob Internet worm, a fact that DHS strongly denied right up until it released documents under FOIA that showed that not only was that exactly what happened, but that DHS had allowed it to happen by holding back a security patch which would have prevented it. [...] [...] A major component of the program is screening of visitors’ travel documents and fingerprints at ports of entry. And when something goes wrong with that part, the arrival lines start getting very long, as they did on August 18. That’s the day that US-VISIT’s computer network was hit by the Zotob Internet worm, a fact that DHS strongly denied right up until it released documents under FOIA that showed that not only was that exactly what happened, but that DHS had allowed it to happen by holding back a security patch which would have prevented it. [...]

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