NSA Watchdog: Surveillance Giant Still Isn't Securing Its Networks

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>
> Date: July 26, 2018 at 8:58:07 PM GMT+9
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> Subject: [Dewayne-Net] NSA Watchdog: Surveillance Giant Still Isn't Securing Its Networks
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> NSA Watchdog: Surveillance Giant Still Isn’t Securing Its Networks
> By Spencer Ackerman
> Jul 25 2018
> <https://www.thedailybeast.com/nsa-watchdog-surveillance-giant-still-isnt-securing-its-networks>
>
> Despite suffering multiple devastating security breaches and data exfiltrations over the past five years, the 
> National Security Agency still isn’t taking sufficient measures to secure its digital troves of highly valuable 
> information, according to a rare public report from the NSA’s inspector general. The report, released Wednesday, said 
> investigators found “many instances of non-compliance” with internal rules to protect “computer networks, systems and 
> data.” Those include “inaccurate or incomplete” security plans, unimplemented plans for multi-person access controls 
> over “data centers and equipment rooms” and “removable media” like thumb drives “not [being] scanned for viruses.” In 
> under a decade, a surveillance agency once thought nigh impregnable has experienced at least four catastrophic data 
> breaches, including from whistleblower Edward Snowden; the Shadow Brokers disclosure of NSA digital weapons; a breach 
> attributed to Kaspersky Lab software; and a former cybersecurity contractor who this year pleaded guilty to taking 
> home thousands of agency documents. “Most operators knew how they could get anything they wanted out of the 
> classified nets and onto the internet if they wanted to, even without the USB drives,” a former NSA employee told The 
> Daily Beast last October, the beginning of the six-month period covered in the inspector general report.



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