800 Break-ins at Dept. of Homeland Security

WrongSizeGlass writes "Yahoo is reporting about the computer security nightmare going on at the Department of Homeland Security. Senior DHS officials admitted to Congress that over a two year period there were 800 hacker break-ins, virus outbreaks and in one instance, hacker tools for stealing passwords and other files were found on two internal Homeland Security computer systems. I guess it's true what they say ... a mechanic's car is always the last to get fixed."

Comments

Thank god we fixed a 40 billion dollar bureaucracy

[Anonymous Coward]

...that failed to deliver when it came to 9/11 warnings by layering on a new bureaucracy on top of the failed bureaucracy.

Clearly what we need is a new Dept. of Homeland Security Security.

Re:Homeland Security != Information Security

[mcpkaaos]

Kinda like "War on Terror"?

Re:Homeland Security != Information Security

[Farmer Tim]

they are charged with protecting the computing infrastructure of the country.

What's Chinese for "pwned"?

They have holes in their security...

[athloi]

...that you could fly a 747 through!

Oops, that was in bad taste.

Re:I'll only say...

[bberens]

You see, the Department of Homeland Security is the 'People Person' of the national security industry. They take the top secret files from the FBI to the CIA. Usually their secretaries do it, but sometimes they do it personally. This is an important task so that the FBI doesn't have to deal with the CIA.