80% of .gov Web Sites Miss DNSSEC Deadline
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netbuzz writes "Eighty percent of US federal agencies — including the Department of Homeland Security — have missed a deadline to deploy DNS Security Extensions, a new authentication mechanism designed to prevent hackers from hijacking Web traffic. The deadline that whooshed by was Dec. 31, 2009. Experts disagree as to whether this level of deployment represents a failure or reasonable progress toward meeting a mandate set by the Office of Management and Budget in the summer of 2008. OMB officials declined to say why the agency hasn't enforced the DNSSEC deadline for executive branch departments."
That's nothing (Score:4, Funny)
Rumour has it All Canadian governments open TCP/UDP ports 2 through 65535.
The first one is the reserved emergency port for the Prime Minister to escape in the case of a national emergency. We tried to explain to him that's not how it works but... You know politicians...
Don't worry about govt security (Score:1, Funny)
They'll do a much better job when they gatekeep everyone's health records.
Re:I'm not a huge fan of DHS either (Score:2, Funny)
Sir, I think that you have penis on the brain.
And I quote:
I'm not a huge fan of DHS, but come on there are so many other government agencies that hardly ever get any abuse at all. DHS has had a lot of cock ups, and should be ridden hard to shape up or dissolve, but this is hardly an opening sentence kind of cock up.
Now where is the full list of orgs that have or have not done it? I suspect its going to be a lot like reading the pork report.
Re:That's nothing (Score:1, Funny)
It's called the "Diefenportnumber".