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Fed's Own Hacker Cracks Homeland Security Network

Posted June 21, 2007 3:57 PM

From TechWeb:

Within the past year, a hacker secretly broke into the Department of Homeland Security network and deleted, updated, and captured information -- all without anyone knowing he was even in there. Luckily, the hacker was Keith A. Rhodes, chief technologist at the U.S. Government Accountability Office. Rhodes, considered to be the federal government's top hacker, has a congressional mandate to test the network security at 24 government agencies and departments. He performs 10 penetration tests a year on agencies such as the IRS and the Department of Agriculture. And for the past year, he's been testing the network at DHS.

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06/22/2007 5:27 AM

I'm not normally know for my paranoia, but you have to ask who else the gov.com's hack into?

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06/22/2007 8:00 AM

You're not paranoid if it's true.

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