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FBI Criticized For Delaying Breach Notifications, Including Insufficient Details (zdnet.com)

Posted by msmash on from the how-about-that dept.

The Federal Bureau of Investigations does a poor job at notifying victims of a cyber-attack, a US government report released last week said. A story adds: FBI notifications arrive either too late or contain insufficient information for victims to take action, a report from the Department of Justice's Office of the Inspector General (DOJ-OIG) has concluded. The report analyzed Cyber Guardian, an FBI application for storing information about tips and ongoing investigations. The system also allows agents to enter details about suspected victims, which Cyber Guardian can later notify via automated messages. But the DOJ-OIG report said FBI agents are not using the system as it is intended. For example, interviews with 31 agents revealed that 29 entered victim information in a lead category called "Action," rather than the standard "Victim Notification."

12 comments

  1. Pff by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yeah, right. As if the FBI gives a crap what the elected government thinks. They went rogue quite some years ago and pursue their own interests at the expense of us all. There are still some parts that go after kidnappers or mafia or whatever, but the top leadership is rotten to the core. They don't take orders, they give them.

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    1. Re:Pff by BringsApples · · Score: 2

      You must mean the CIA. The FBI just had to have a third-party come do an investigation for them, and that 3rd-party didn't come up with what it seemed the FBI wanted. Dunno.

      But it does seem that any person or organisation today, that has authority, is totally taking advantage of everything/everyone possible with said authority.

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  2. Re:Offensive by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Likely a liberal pretending to be a conservative. No conservative I know talks like that.

  3. Story not Jewish enough. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Slashdot was compromised by HR a long time ago now, by the FBI aint that right. Hi guys.

    https://twitter.com/superzar2000/with_replies

  4. Re:Offensive by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You've clearly never met an American conservative, especially from the south.

  5. they were too busy overthrowing election results by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Lisa Page and Peter Strzok were too busy making sure 'their pick' got into the White House.

    Oh, also all the other guys that weren't caught.

    They sent me a recruitment email a month ago. Couldn't be bothered to open it.