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Report: Federal Workers, Contractors Behind Half of Government Cyber Breaches

Posted by samzenpus on from the who's-to-blame dept.

schwit1 writes Federal employees and contractors are unwittingly undermining a $10 billion-per-year effort to protect sensitive government data from cyberattacks, according to a published report. The AP says that workers in more than a dozen agencies, from the Defense and Education departments to the National Weather Service, are responsible for at least half of the federal cyberincidents reported each year since 2010, according to an analysis of records.

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  1. Blame the victim ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You don't work in IT do you? Users are fucking idiots, when you can ask a random employee in the street to allow you into their building because you're working on floor X and have forgotten your pass, and they let you in how the fuck do you blame IT?