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US Government IT Security 'Outstandingly Mediocre'

Posted by Zonk on from the c-minus-for-the-lose dept.

mrneutron2004 writes wrote with a link to an article on The Register, discussing an annual IT security report card handed out to the federal government. The results this year were mixed. The good news is that they graded higher than last year. The bad news? They still just rate a C-". Individual departments did better than others, but overall the results were quite poor. "Although overall security procedures improved the Department of Defense (DoD) recorded a failing F grade. Meanwhile the Department of Veterans Affairs - whose loss of laptops containing veterans' confidential data triggered a huge security breach - failed to submit a report. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission, another agency that has trouble keeping track of its PCs, flunked."

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  1. Government by superangrybrit · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    everywhere they go, disaster follows...

  2. tag: dewp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    seeing as they censor "dupe" (pretty fucking hypocritical for such a supposedly anti-censorship site), lets try "dewp"

    dear zonk and the rest of the slashdot "editors": i hope you realise how lucky you are to have a job where you apparently can't get fired despite totally failing at pretty much every aspect of it (can't even be bothered to read your own site's stories from YESTERDAY, apparently no grasp of spelling or grammar, etc)

    1. Re:tag: dewp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Or d00p. That way we can make jokes about when "teh d00p hits teh fanb0iz".

    2. Re:tag: dewp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Oh no, what makes censoring "dupe" funny is this.

      The tagging system is supposed to know what "dupe" means and do something vague. Instead it just gets censored.

  3. Re:Dupe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    There are two news sites covering the same report; I don't believe that is a dupe. Consider multiple news sites covering the latest: OS X, Vista, Ubuntu release. Would that make them all dupes? Or just the Apple (no pun intended) of the medias eye.