DHS Gets Another "F" In Cyber Security

An anonymous reader writes "For the third straight year, the Department of Homeland Security -- which is charged with charting the federal government's cyber security agenda -- earned a grade of "F" for computer security from a key congressional oversight committee, according to a story at Washingtonpost.com. Not only did the overall government-wide computer security grade remain flat (at a barely-passing "D+" but several agencies -- mostly those on the "front lines in the war on terror" -- actually managed to fare worse this year."

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Muhammed drawings

[mixenmaxen]

Well then, time to deface some .gov websites with drawings of the prophet Muhammed...

Ofcourse

[poeidon1]

Cracking child porno is much more important than these trivial issues. Why care when everything is available at/from google.

Perhaps they are using

[LarsWestergren]

prayer based security [evolvefish.com]?

and the root Password is...

[Anonymous Coward]

JOSHUA

Re:Bureacratic incompetence?

[new_breed]

Yes it can, and stop calling me Shirley :o

Be careful what you say.

[Stephen Samuel]

Criticizing DHS can be seen as being unpatriotic.

If only...

[datadriven]

We had elected Al Gore. I hear he invented the internet. We'd be in much better shape then.

Re:Do we live in a developed country?

[dwandy]

organizations that consistently screw up have been known to go out of business...

So, does the Treasury Department file for chapter-11 on behalf of the government? and is there a corporate raider big enough to auction off the remains?

Beware - using Linux can be bad

[FORTRANslinger]

whilst Linux is undoubtedly good, I used it for my MSCE exams and got a "Grade F". Using Linux is not a guaranteed method of getting an "A".

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Re:Be careful what you say.

[Anonymous Coward]

Only if you are from the US. DHS sucks - hows that?

Re:Obviously...

[jim_v2000]

Actually, just consider your average govt employee and it all makes sense.