Information Security News: DOE oblivious to security issues, top officials say

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http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9910/25/doe.apathy.idg/index.html

From: "James J. Capone" <james () ptm com>

DOE oblivious to security issues, top officials say

(IDG) -- The former director of the Energy Department's Office of
Safeguards and Security today outlined for Congress years of cybersecurity
problems at the nation's nuclear weapons laboratories, claiming officials
were aware of ongoing espionage but failed to do anything about it. Edward
McCallum, the former chief of DOE security who is now detailed to the
Defense Department as the Pentagon's acting director of the Combating
Terrorism Technology Support Office, said DOE officials "knew our greatest
secrets were being stolen and . . . did nothing about it."

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