The Department of Homeland Security has admitted to Congress that it has had over 800 hacker break-ins, virus outbreaks and other computer security problems over the 2005 and 2006 fiscal years.
Okay, there’s two sides to this one. On one hand, they’re supposedly in charge of all the intel info that our great nation has and they really need to protect that information. On the other hand, they are THE target because they do have all the information. What I’d like to see is the # on how many attempts there were that didn’t make it. Then we could see if it’s just the shear number of attacks that some are slipping through or if it’s really that the DHS is just dropping the ball here.
In the end, though, the DHS knows it’s a target and should better protect the information that they have. And that starts with training the employees, not with hardware. Most security breaches are a result of someone doing something stupid, anyway.
