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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. turn off autoplay by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you don't want to watch 4 unrelated videos at once, turn off autoplay before visiting the sites in the summary.

    1. Re:turn off autoplay by ShanghaiBill · · Score: 4, Informative

      If you don't want to watch 4 unrelated videos at once, turn off autoplay before visiting the sites in the summary.

      Also, you don't need to click both links, since they are the exact same story, word for word. One is the AP report, the other is the Fox News verbatim repost of the AP report.