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Re: U.S. Attorney's office tells employees not to log onto Drudge Report
From: "Tomas L. Byrnes" <tomb () byrneit net>
Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 21:17:01 -0700
A better understanding of the fundamental problem is that the entire .gov, and most of the .mil, posture is: "we are in compliance with standards". The problem is, those standards were developed by a committee to address threats defined when the committee was formed, and are thus years out of date.
-----Original Message----- From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On Behalf Of Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 7:51 PM To: Larry Seltzer Cc: funsec () linuxbox org Subject: Re: [funsec] U.S. Attorney's office tells employees not to log onto Drudge Report On Fri, 15 May 2009 20:38:11 EDT, Larry Seltzer said:But what really has me concerned here is that the Justice
Department's
malware management technique is to tell their users not to surf to a specific web site. That can't be an effective answer. They can't deal with this at the gateway somehow?You gotta remember that DoJ's computer security stance is probably best described as "at least it doesn't suck as hard as Dept of Interior".
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- Re: U.S. Attorney's office tells employees not to log on to Drudge Report Gregory Hicks (May 15)
- Re: U.S. Attorney's office tells employees not to log on to Drudge Report Dan Kaminsky (May 15)
- Re: U.S. Attorney's office tells employees not to log on to Drudge Report Larry Seltzer (May 15)
- Re: U.S. Attorney's office tells employees not to log on to Drudge Report Dan Kaminsky (May 15)
- Re: U.S. Attorney's office tells employees not to log on to Drudge Report Larry Seltzer (May 15)
- Re: U.S. Attorney's office tells employees not to log on to Drudge Report Dan Kaminsky (May 15)
- Re: U.S. Attorney's office tells employees not to log on to Drudge Report Valdis . Kletnieks (May 15)
- Re: U.S. Attorney's office tells employees not to log onto Drudge Report Tomas L. Byrnes (May 15)
- Re: U.S. Attorney's office tells employees not to log on to Drudge Report Larry Seltzer (May 15)
- Re: U.S. Attorney's office tells employees not to log on to Drudge Report Dan Kaminsky (May 15)