It what seems like a little more then a witch hunt Linton Brooks, head of the U.S. Nuclear Security Agency, was forced to step down over ‘management issues.’ It seems the ‘issues’ at hand are wide ranging from failing to report the theft of computer files at an NNSA facility in Albuquerque, N.M., containing the SSN’s of 1500 workers to classified-weapons documents found on a USB thumb-drive in a meth lab stolen from a Los Alamos, N.M. lab. The Los Alamos case raised some red flags since the lab had recently gone through a 10million dollar ‘cyber security’ update. It just seems that the security update was based more on the perimeter security plan rather then focusing on the inside attack. Then after the Los Alamos scare it seems that the security fix was something straight out of the CrzyLand back files. Super glue in the USB port trick. With banks securing their USB ports from key-loggers and reports of other IT managers doing the same to secure their USB ports. I guess it’s just proof that once again super glue is the IT managers ‘duct tape.’ Welcome to CrzyLand.

-Nic

Think that was Crzy check out one of these:
• Tens of millions of Americans have been spied on by the NSA
• Legal Loophole Emerges In NSA Spy Program
• U.S. Rolls Out Plan to Build 125 Nukes per Year.
• Mass. rep demands FCC action in NSA phone-spy case
• Man Charged With Hacking Into GM Database

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