GSA Bidding Site Compromised By Flaw

thomville writes "NY Times reports that eOffer, the government site allowing on-line bids for contracting government computer services, allowed viewing and modification of other contractor's corporate and financial data." From the article: "The security flaw, which could have permitted contractor fraud, was reported to the agency's inspector general on Dec. 22, but almost three weeks passed before the system was taken offline Wednesday afternoon. The General Services Administration is the federal agency responsible for procuring equipment and services, including computer security technology, making the lapse all the more striking. 'This is the government entity responsible for letting contracts for security,' said Mark Rasch, chief security counsel for Solutionary, a security firm. 'Clearly the people who log in would know about security.'"

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Gov't Employees == Affirmative Action Negroes

[Anonymous Coward]

Note to you all outside the Beltway: 80% of government employees in Washington, DC are lazy, ignorant, shiftless Negroes. DC is a third world country, more like Zimbabwe. What the hell were you expecting, Einstein?

That is a fact. Deal with it.

So...

[BorgCopyeditor]

...is this the result of another brilliant recess appointment of an unqualified person to a government post? ;-)

Re:ComputerWorld has more detail

[SleepyHappyDoc]

Perhaps the government is outsourcing their computer security to Microsoft.