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Senators Grill Pompeo on Vulnerable Cybersecurity at State Department (axios.com)

Posted by msmash on from the holding-accountable dept.

A bipartisan cadre of senators sent a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday calling out the department's poor adoption of multi-factor authentication. From a report: Multi-factor authentication requires users to take an additional protective step when logging into an account -- often a physical key or a biometric scan. Beyond being a good practice for federal agencies, multi-factor authentication is also the law for all high-level government accounts. Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Rand Paul (R-Kent.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H) pointed to a recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report that found only 11% of required agency devices had enhanced security.

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  1. About Hillary's email server... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Ahhh, too soon? Too easy!

    1. Re: About Hillary's email server... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Hillary's server may have been compromised

      Donald Trump has been compromised

  2. you tell him! by cascadingstylesheet · · Score: 1

    In biting tones, Booker said "look, it's go 100% two-factor, or put the servers in your bathroom, Mr. Secretary!"

    1. Re:you tell him! by ScentCone · · Score: 2

      In biting tones, Booker said "look, it's go 100% two-factor, or put the servers in your bathroom, Mr. Secretary!"

      I recommend the new Spartacus firewall. It blocks everything except pompous middle-school quality theatricality.

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  3. Love that Wyden by Tinsoldier314 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Seems like every time I see the Senate doing something rational regarding tech, the internet, net neutrality, etc., Ron Wyden is involved or leading the charge. I appreciate his track record on this kind of thing. I think he should be honored as a defacto Slashdotter.

  4. Tillerson knew by charliemerritt03 · · Score: 1

    F*cking Moron(s)
    Podesta got spearphished.
    Dpt of State doesn't get TFA.
    45 with a nonsecured iphone.

    When will basic cybersecurity classes begin?

    Don't allow anyone in .gov near a computer till at least 2 class hours and a passed "driver's test". (Any government).

  5. Infowars is faggot shit for morons. Get tested. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    You seem to be stupid. You think that's a link to information on the topic, lol.

  6. +1 Insightful by mccrew · · Score: 1

    Wish I had some mod points for you today, AC.

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  7. Re:The Troll is Strong with This One by najajomo · · Score: 1

    > The Troll is Strong with This One .. Meps.

    Yea, I've noticed .. sad .. covfefe :[

  8. Of course, the state department by ArylAkamov · · Score: 1

    The more things change, the more they stay the same. The state department sure has a long history of spies and security issues.

    1. Re:Of course, the state department by rtb61 · · Score: 1

      What would you expect, the US state department, seems to be mainly about selling the bits and pieces of the US government to the highest bidder via lobbyist sales reps. Want a army for a dirty war, for sale cheap (quite public about that), contact the appropriate lobbyists, who will set you up with the foundation donation links to buy access. Want to out right buy a piece of land not for sale, no worries, contact you nearest US lobbyists, who will establish fiscal links to buy the coup you want, pay only ten cents on the dollar for the coup as long as that ten cents on the dollar is going to members of the state department and their lobbyists reps and wham the Crimea is yours. Want weapons, they have any weapons you want, contact your US lobbyist friend, terrorist schmemorist, you want those weapons, they'll get them for you, even for free if you pay those lobbyists and their state department contacts enough.

      The US state department, it's where you go to corruptly buy the US government, contact your nearest friendly US lobbyist for full details, it's all for sale, cheap, well not so cheap but way cheaper for them to steal it from the US taxpayer, than you having to pay the full cost, so a real bargain.

      The US state department has a pretty long history of being entirely corrupt. You name it they will sell it, although I imagine the price on nukes is pretty high but they will sell you the plans, the materials and parts and get the US government to look the other way on the whole spread of nuclear weapons treaty thingy, pay to play at the US state department. Now if Russian and China would stop being so stingy and just pay off US lobbyists to pay off the US state department, we could have a bit more peace around here. Although I suppose Africa terrorism is going to become the new hotbed of US arms sales and maybe still South America. Then there is the whole life boat Australia thingy managed out of the US state department for old UE/EU money, sort of still limping along.

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