via National Defense Magazine A Department of Homeland Security administered database where reports on cyber-intrusions, and potential network security vulnerabilities are collected, analyzed and pushed out to local and state governments is itself vulnerable to internal and external attack, the depa...
via Fierce Government IT The Health and Human Services inspector general is pushing for inclusion of addition security controls in national standards for electronic health records. In an audit dated May 16, the HHS IG says the Office of Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Techn...
via Fierce Government IT An audit from the Health and Human Services inspector general questions the ability of private sector hospitals to protect health information in electronic form. Under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, more commonly known as HIPAA, hospitals have a dut...
via Fierce Government IT The inter-agency task force the FBI set up in 2008 to share information about domestic cyber threat investigations is holding information back from partner agencies, finds the Justice Department inspector general. In a somewhat redacted audit dated “April 2011” a...
via Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) – FBI agents have had trouble investigating cyber attacks involving national security because they lack the needed technical expertise or are often transferred or diverted to other cases, according to a government report released on Wednesday. Sensitive governm...
via KSRO Newstalk About a third of the FBI agents working on cyber investigations lack the networking and counterintelligence expertise to investigate national security intrusions, the Justice Department’s inspector general concluded in a new report. The report said the FBI’s practice of...
via Defense Systems In February, the nation’s top intelligence officials from the Homeland Security Department, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, CIA, FBI and other agencies expressed their concerns about the threat of cyberattacks on our nation. One official said it would be ha...
via RedOrbit NASA servers used to control spacecraft are vulnerable to cyber attack via the Internet, warned a report released Monday by NASA’s inspector general following an audit of the space agency’s network security. “We found that computer servers on NASA’s agency-wide m...