The Virus That Ate DHS

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72051-0.html?tw=wn_index_1
 
A Morocco-born computer virus that crashed the Department of Homeland
Security's US-VISIT border screening system last year first passed though
the backbone network of the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement bureau,
according to newly released documents on the incident.

The documents were released by court order, following a yearlong battle by
Wired News to obtain the pages under the Freedom of Information Act. They
provide the first official acknowledgement that DHS erred by deliberately
leaving more than 1,300 sensitive US-VISIT workstations vulnerable to
attack, even as it mounted an all-out effort to patch routine desktop
computers against the virulent Zotob worm.

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