Federal Computers Fail Hacker Test

Nintendork writes: "An article by the Associated Press, published on CNN tells of the latest network security report cards earned by Federal agencies. The Department of Defense along with several others failed. I hope terrorists that pose physical threats don't have any script kiddies in their arsenal."

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Re:Typical useless gov't reports

[vanguard]

Please - this was just an audit of what agencies SAID they did. Can you imagine the grade they'd get if they actually scanned the systems and networks for vulnerabilities?

Actually, I think you need to read the article more closely.

The GAO routinely hacks into federal computers to test security and rarely fails. At the Commerce Department, for example, the GAO in August found some computers didn't require any passwords; some used "password" as the password; and entire lists of passwords were stored in plain view on the computers themselves. When one Commerce employee detected investigators trying to hack the agency's computers during their testing, he launched an illegal, electronic counterattack against the GAO.

I'm pretty sure they didn't gather the "we keep passwords taped to our monitors" information through a form that the DOD filled out.