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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. About right by kilfarsnar · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The statistic I have always heard is that 60% of intrusions are internal. So 50% of breaches coming from employees sounds about right. It's a lot easier to steal stuff if you have a key. And as we have learned again over the past 6 years or so, the best way to rob a bank is to own one.

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