NASA Employees Duped in Chinese Phishing Scheme Targeting U.S. Defense Software

The Office of Inspector General OIG of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA has revealed how a Chinese national posed as a U.S. researcher as part of a spear-phishing campaign to obtain sensitive information from the space agency, as well as from government entities,...

‘Signalgate’ Inspector General Report Wants Just One Change to Avoid a Repeat Debacle

The United States Inspector General report reviewing Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s text messaging mess recommends a single change to keep classified material secure...

NSA Watchdog Will Review Tucker Carlson Spy Claims

The National Security Agency’s Inspector General Robert Storch has announced a review of whether the agency illegally conducted cyber-espionage and collected the electronic communications of Fox News opinion-show host Tucker Carlson, who has accused the NSA of trying to capture embarrassing...

So Much For the Deep State Plot Against Donald Trump

Inspector general Michael Horowitz's report shows that the FBI's investigation of ties between Russia and the Trump campaign was both justified and without political bias...

FEMA leaks sensitive details of 2.3 million disaster survivors

By Carolina The Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General has released a report revealing that FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency couldn’t protect the private and confidential information of about 2.3 million hurricane survivors. In 2017, residents of Harvey, Maria,...

Department of Education Lambasted Over Database Vulnerabilities

Like the Office of Personnel Management before it, the Department of Education has failed to heed repeated warnings that its systems contain multiple weaknesses. In a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing held this week, Congressman and committee chair Jason Chaffetz R-Utah...

Chinese Attackers Hack NOAA's Systems

Systems belonging to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA were recently compromised, purportedly by Chinese hackers. The NOAA confirmed that four of the scientific agency’s websites were targeted and compromised in an “internet-sourced attack” earlier this fall, in a statement...

U.S. Nuclear Regulator Hacked Three Times in Three Years

Hackers hit the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission NRC three separate times during the past three years, duping employees of the agency into spreading malware and clicking through phishing links intended to harvest log-in credentials. A NextGov report on Monday said hackers in an unnamed foreign...

NOAA, Satellite Data, Riddled with Vulnerabilities

The informational systems that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA run are fraught with vulnerabilities and what the U.S. Department of Commerce deems “significant security deficiencies” that could leave it vulnerable to cyber attacks. That’s according to the findings of an...

IG Report Shows DHS Making Progress, But Still Has Room to Improve on Information Security

Although there are still a number of issues that need to be addressed with the Department of Homeland Security’s information security efforts, the department is improving in many areas and making strong progress toward implementing better security controls, a new report from the Inspector General...

Department of Energy Susceptible to Attack

An audit of the Department of Energy has shown that 29 new weaknesses emerged on the agency’s networks this year in addition to 10 existing that the DoE failed to fix after a 2012 audit. The audit, undertaken by the Office of Inspector General and the Office of Audits and Inspections, revealed...

DoD Inspector General Calls Out Army CIO For Poor Mobile Device Security

The CIO of the U.S. Army failed to put in place a comprehensive security program capable of protecting data stored on commercial mobile devices such as iPhones and Androids, leaving sensitive information in key Army installations exposed. The Inspector General of the Department of Defense took th...

Stolen NASA Laptop Puts 'Large Number' of Employees at Risk

NASA has enacted new policies to protect employee and other sensitive information after a laptop was stolen from an employee’s locked vehicle, exposing records of personal information on a “large number” of NASA employees. The laptop was not protected by whole disk encryption, NASA officials said...

NASA Compromised

And then there was NASA. Poor NASA. This was a tough year for the formerly high-flying and universally beloved U.S. space agency. Not only has their budget seen deep cuts as the US Government tries to balance its books, but they also celebrated the bitter-sweet final mission of their once marquee...

NASA Computers Hacked Repeatedly in Last Two Years

NASA has been hit repeatedly by hackers during the last two years – including an incident where attackers compromised systems at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The situation was revealed in testimony Feb. 29 by NASA Inspector General Paul Martin before the House Science, Space and...

Holes in FBI cyber security !!

About a third of the FBI agents working on cyber investigations lack the networking and counterintelligence expertise to investigate national security intrusions, the Justice Department's inspector general concluded in a new report. The report said the FBI's practice of rotating agents among...

Inspector General Finds Vulns at US-CERT

A scan of IT systems at US-CERT, the Homeland Security Department’s primary operational cybersecurity agency, found hundreds of vulnerabilities that could allow someone to compromise data, according to a recent inspector general’s report. Read the full article. Government Computer News...

Inspector General Talks Limitations of US-CERT

DHS Inspector General Richard Skinner spoke before the House Committee on Homeland Security yesterday and detailed his office’s latest report on the progress US-CERT has made in securing cyberspace and included noting limitations with enforcement, staffing and strategic planning. Read the full...