Homeland Security’s own IT security is a hot mess, watchdog finds

From: ZDNet

An inspector general audit found dozens of systems across the agency’s networks were running old and outdated software, and in some cases, computers hadn’t received security patches for five years.

By  for Zero Day

A government watchdog found that Homeland Security, the federal department in charge of protecting the nation’s cybersecurity, had a litany of security problems of it own.

A newly released report by the department’s Office of Inspector General found many of the agency’s systems, including both unclassified and national security systems containing the highest “top secret” information, were running outdated, unsupported operating systems that in some cases hadn’t been patched with security updates for years.

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