FBI's Lax Security Gets Worldwide Attention

A Government Accountability Office report released last week pointing out major security weaknesses in one of the FBI critical networks was a big topic for bloggers this long Memorial Day weekend. Carl Weinshenk of IT Business Edge was the latest blogger to post biting commentary, writing that "an observer is left to wonder whether the problem is more a lack of accountability and corporate inertia than the possibility that security is being run by the descendents of Benny Hill." (Tech Insider posted an item on the report, too.) Other bloggers offered up hard criticism, too. The story was carried worldwide, all the way to Australia and on newswires. This may be one GAO report that doesn't sit on the shelf.