Russian Spy Ring Needed Some Serious IT Help 191
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?