Just days after President Donald Trump fired the U.S. Coast Guard commandant, investigators confirmed Wednesday the military branch left computer systems and sensitive data vulnerable to foreign adversaries and hackers in a cybersecurity blunder that also left Pentagon systems dangerously exposed.
The Homeland Security inspector general reported that the Coast Guard failed to followed required cybersecurity procedures for at least three of its computer systems that transmitted data to and from the Department of Defense Information Network and that as a result national security was placed at risk.
“The three systems we reviewed, and other similarly situated systems in the Coast Guard’s enterprise, are vulnerable to cybersecurity weaknesses and exposed to un-assessed risks that could result in the unauthorized disclosure or compromise of sensitive Coast Guard information,” the federal watchdog warned in a report that included redactions for security information. more here
Meh.
What can they learn from a Coastie that they didnt already get in spades from Pedo Joe…
Should have wiped it with a ‘cloth’
By design, I think.
US Coast Guard…but whose coast?
Seven CG bases around the world…we once had a Navy for that. It sure sounds like mission creep to me. Bring them home. There’s plenty for them to do here.
At least no ship was sunk – unlike that dumb female captain in the New Zealand navy:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/zealand-warship-crashed-sank-because-161115570.html