Posted on 06/10/2006 5:05:02 PM PDT by madison10
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A computer hacker got into the U.S. agency that guards the country's nuclear weapons stockpile and stole the personal records of at least 1,500 employees and contractors, a senior U.S. lawmaker said on Friday.
The target of the hacker, the National Nuclear Safety Administration, is the latest agency to reveal that sensitive private information about government workers was stolen.
The incident happened last September but top Energy Department officials were not told about it until this week, prompting the chairman of the House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee to demand the resignation of the head of the NNSA.
An NNSA spokesman was not available for comment.
The NNSA is a semi-autonomous arm of the Energy Department and also guards some of the U.S. military's nuclear secrets and responds to global nuclear and radiological emergencies.
Committee chairman Rep. Joe Barton said NNSA Administrator Linton Brooks should be "removed from your office as expeditiously as possible" because he did not quickly notify senior Energy Department officials of the breach...
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Sure Mac OS which is very similiar to BSD for some strage reason /sarc is good. And Mac pioneer many technologies. They why do so few people use it? I remember when I was younger and there were lots of IIe's out there? Its because MAC is expensive (overpriced) and fills a niche market.
Windows is so popular because everyone uses it. There is a reason everyone began to use it over the MAC. MAC lost the race a long time ago.
"With clicky windows and everything."
Yup and while they make cute computers not too many people want to spend twice as much for cuteness.
Argue as much as you want. Mac lost, Unix lost and windows rules the business desktop world. Windows is inferior in many ways except for the one that matters. Windows is easy to use and cheap for the consumer.
Jeeze...at work, we have several >$100K instruments that were bumped from our company network (without warning) because they are Win 95 or 98 machines. Our IT guys said it was time to upgrade the PC's because they could not run the latest security software. They didn't understand that the instruments are critical to our R&D efforts, as well as their network connections, and that to change the OS mease spending hundreds of thousands of dollars for hardware we don't need. The old instruments work fine, but are not compatible with the newer operating systems. We are still waiting to see if the IT department will pay for the new instruments, too. I imagine the government has nuclear labs with the same problems - old PCs that ncan't be upgraded without spending millions of dollars for new hardware the PC's operate. So the network stays fixed like it was still 1996. And hackers can get in easily.
I also second your rant on the VA letting our personal data get into the wrong hands.
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