, SecurityFocus 2004-10-19
The FBI is investigating the penetration of a university research system that housed sensitive personal data on a staggering 1.4 million Californians who participated in a state social program, officials said Tuesday.
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Does anyone know?
Systems like these should, by law, be not hooked up to an external network. Not ever!
The government should create a law that would make putting a system like this on a network that was facing the internet a criminal act.
All systems are vulnerable according to the likes of every expert I have ever read. So why risk it. Why can't this data be kept off the systems that are connected to networks that are connected to other networks (like also put such a system in a big vault with only one big steel lockable door and a no wires going in or out)!
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