Russian Spy Ring Needed Some Serious IT Help 191
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samzenpus
from the close-your-spy-network dept.
from the close-your-spy-network dept.
coondoggie writes "The Russian ring charged this week with spying on the United States faced some of the common security problems that plague many companies — misconfigured wireless networks, users writing passwords on slips of paper, and laptop help desk issues that take months to resolve."
Re:Well this just proves (Score:5, Informative)
That seal is hanging at the NSA museum. If you go there, you can open it up and see the microphone. Pretty neat.
http://www.nsa.gov/about/cryptologic_heritage/museum/virtual_tour/museum_tour_text.shtml
look for "great seal"
Re:Well this just proves (Score:3, Informative)
To be fair, it might have been just as well made by children - at least when it comes to visible parts ;p
Also, the seal device was actually hung on a wall in Soviet Union, by the US ambassador there. The interesting part made by no other but...Theremin.
Re:Thats the least of their problems. (Score:5, Informative)
You laugh and mock, but the last head of IT we had, had us on 14 day rotating passwords. After 2 months he got canned.
Re:Well this just proves (Score:5, Informative)
they did it on british soil (Score:5, Informative)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvinenko [wikipedia.org]
if they have no problem doing it on british soil, what would stop them from doing it on american soil?