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Report: DHS cyber security lagging
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2004-12-16

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is having some homeland cyber security issues on its systems providing remote access to telecommuters, according to a newly-released report by the DHS Inspector General's office.

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Report: DHS cyber security lagging 2004-12-21
Tommy Ward
If our government was serious about information security, they would not be relying on static passwords at all, or especially not for ANY remote access. No amount of password complexity, aging or invalid entry timeouts can overcome the deficiencies inherent in static passwords, which for remote acce...

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