Bet on the hackers, not the hacks

An internal report released last week showed that the Interior Department failed to update its computer network even after it was warned that the system was exposed to hackers and ordered by a federal judge to fix the problem. Though Interior Department officials claimed last summer that they improved the system, the report, written by the department's inspector general Earl Devaney, found that the agency "persistently failed to meet minimum standards in information security," leaving the computer network dangerously exposed. This came in response to a Native American class-action lawsuit which claimed $47 billion claiming that the department's computer system failed to keep track of income generated from 170,000 tracts of land. (Washington Post)

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