FBI Investigating Unisys For Not Preventing Hacker Intrusions

Following up yesterdays post, Gap Analysis - Blame It On The Contractor, TechDirt is reporting FBI Investigating Unisys For Not Preventing US Gov't Computers From Getting Hacked.

So it appears that we have yet another blame the security "GAP" on the Contractor, this time we have the FBI investigating Unisys, the contractor, for allowing the Chinese hackers to break in U.S. Defense Department Computers.

Is the U.S. Defense Department admitting here, that they are technically incapable of setting up and maintaining security standards on their own computers, and they rely on contractors to set, and maintain the security standards. 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. What happens the 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 is 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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