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Border Security System Left Open

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the on-a-need-to-patch-basis dept.

7x7 writes "Wired News is running an article on documents they recovered via the Freedom of Information Act and a lawsuit. From the article:" A computer failure that hobbled border-screening systems at airports across the country last August occurred after Homeland Security officials deliberately held back a security patch that would have protected the sensitive computers from a virus then sweeping the internet, according to documents obtained by Wired News." It looks like Zotob made it in to the supposedly protected network."

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  1. Irony with a 60lb mallet by caudron · · Score: 4, Informative

    It looks like Zotob made it in to the supposedly protected network.

    I'm supposed to be surprised that the department that is there to "protect" us from attack fell to an easily preventable virus?

    Not when that same agency appoints Gator (now Claria) executive, D. Reed Freeman, to their Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee or when that very same agency hired its own Chief Privacy Officer from Doubleclick.

    No, I couldn't muster less shock at the irony if my nutsack depended on it.

    Tom Caudron
    http://tom.digitalelite.com/politics.html

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    -Tom