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Senate Finds U.S. Agencies Let Cybersecurity Lapse for a Decade

Saturday, Jul 06 2019
Vulnerabilities
Written by  Security Tech Brief Staff
Senate Finds U.S. Agencies Let Cybersecurity Lapse for a Decade

A U.S. Senate subcommittee’s report has found that several federal agencies failed to do enough to protect personal information in their systems over the past two White House administrations. So reports The Hill.

Those agencies were the Social Security Administration along with the departments of State, Homeland Security, Health and Human Services, Transportation, Education, Agriculture, and Housing and Urban Development. According to the report, steered by Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and Tom Carper (D-Del.), a few of the agencies had failed to shore up vulnerabilities uncovered more than 10 years ago by the inspector general.

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