Return-Path: <sentto-279987-1251-990584951-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.1.0) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Tue, 22 May 2001 19:30:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 22070 invoked by uid 510); 23 May 2001 01:30:19 -0000 Received: from ml.egroups.com (208.50.144.77) by 204.181.12.215 with SMTP; 23 May 2001 01:30:19 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-1251-990584951-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.4.53] by ml.egroups.com with NNFMP; 23 May 2001 02:29:11 -0000 X-Sender: fc@all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 23 May 2001 02:29:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 44479 invoked from network); 23 May 2001 02:28:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 23 May 2001 02:28:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO all.net) (65.0.156.78) by mta3 with SMTP; 23 May 2001 02:28:48 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by all.net (8.9.3/8.7.3) id TAA15472 for iwar@onelist.com; Tue, 22 May 2001 19:28:44 -0700 Message-Id: <200105230228.TAA15472@all.net> To: iwar@onelist.com (Information Warfare Mailing List) Organization: I'm not allowed to say X-Mailer: don't even ask X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] From: Fred Cohen <fc@all.net> Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 19:28:44 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Subject: [iwar] GAO Study of NIPC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit http://www.kablenet.com/newkable.nsf/KNHomeLatest/9989EEE7243A98C680256A5400508199?OpenDocument International FBI bungles cyber security 22 May 2001 Protection of the US government and critical infrastructure from internet attack is flimsy, according to a report A cyber-protection unit designed to prevent hackers and terrorists attacking the US government and critical infrastructure is failing, say federal government auditors. The FBI's $27m National Infrastructure Protection Center, the centrepiece of US internet security, often does not co-operate with other agencies or private bodies and fails to warn them about imminent attack, says the General Accounting Office (GAO). A congressional study released on 22 May 2001 is the latest critical report made of the centre. It said the unit suffers from staffing problems and a lack of expertise. Personnel at the centre told auditors they were badly treated by other FBI staff: until summer 2000, for example, they had to wear different colour badges and had only limited access to databases. In March 2000, an internal memo at the Pentagon complained that for non-FBI workers at the centre "it is often a struggle to even get access to the internal email", The Wall Street Journal reports. George Andricos of the White House National Security Council said the task of protecting US infrastructure "might be better accomplished by distributing the tasks across several existing federal agencies. Andricos, who advises President Bush, also suggested creating a "virtual analysis centre" to issue emergency warnings. The report makes criticises the centre's emergency warnings procedure. Although it issued more than 80 advance notices since 1998, most concerned damage already done, the report said. In particular, auditors criticised the centre's response to the 2000 "'I love you" virus. The report said FBI warnings about the virus came hours after widespread damage to US email systems The GAO stops short of recommending disbanding the centre, as some critics have suggested but its release coincides with an ongoing review by the Bush administration to reorganise the US cyber-protection programme. ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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