Is The Defense Department Maintaining Security?

TechDirt is reporting FBI Investigating Unisys For Not Preventing US Gov't Computers From Getting Hacked.

Does this investigation by the FBI mean that the U.S. Defense Department is admitting here, that Unisys was potentially responsible for setting up and maintaining security standards on Defense Department computers. If that is the case, we all need to be afraid, very afraid.

These are the same people responsible for maintaining the security around our Nuclear Arsenal. If the Defense Department is incapable of maintaining their security on their owen computers what happens the next time (and there will be a next time) Chinese hackers access Defense Department computers, could make 9/11 look like an Ice Cream Social.

All this while our government ignores these security problems and are more interested in whether or not Iran's crazy president should be allowed to address a few equally crazy liberal faculty and students at Columbia University.

I think the reason they are more interested in other items is that they fail to recognize the seriousness of the threat, similar to congresses lack of interest in al-Qaeda prior to 9/11. As technology advances and level data concentration increases, the level of severity of these data breaches are likely to increase as well.

With this intrusion, we see the Chinese going from thefts of our technology to trying to gain active access to our command and control systems. And this isn't the first time we have detected breakins, Symantec reports, China ranks second behind the U.S. as far as malicious activity on the Internet as a whole. And earlier this week we found out that it was possible for hackers to "Burn Out" a power plant by causing an overload.

The U.S. Government needs to wakeup the severity of the security problems we are currently having and be made aware just how terrible they could get. Then government needs to get serious in mandating information security protocols on sensitive material both public and private.

Until they do, I know I'm going to sleep a little less secure at night, how about you?

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