Homeland Security computers hacked

[Hans]

It's so much safer now that we have homeland security watching over the homeland. They even spend 1 Billion USD to make their pc network all secure.

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Hackers compromised dozens of Department of Homeland Security computers, moving sensitive information to Chinese-language Web sites, congressional investigators said Monday.

Investigators pointed a finger at a government contractor, saying the firm hired to protect DHS computers tried to hide the incidents from the department.

In their letter requesting an investigation, Thompson and Langevin said that "contractors provided inaccurate and misleading information to Department of Homeland Security officials about the source of these attacks and attempted to hide security gaps in their capabilities."

The letter does not name the contractor, but a committee staffer identified it as Unisys Corp., which has a $1 billion contract to safeguard DHS computers.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/24/hom...ers/index.html

[Return of Too Many Daves]

Is this some kind of love letter to Speedy again?

Hans and Speedy sitting in a tree....

[Hans]

No, it's a serious concern with an organization that calls itself homeland security. Hard to call your homeland secure when a 1 billion USD security system fails at the hand of some hackers.
Makes you wonder what else those hackers are peeking at eh?

[1337]

Mssive infrastrutcture for homeland security - $1,000,000,000.00
Having the leader of the freeworld's computer hacked - priceless!

[GenX]

I heard hackers got through Belgium's security system, too.

How they managed to snip the lock so fast is beyond me.