Two reports on Thursday should send alarm bells clanging to beef up the government's cybersecurity. Whether anyone in the Obama administration will hear them is another question.
USA Today obtained federal records showing that the Department of Energy was successfully hacked 159 times between 2010 and 2014 ) — potentially putting the nation's power grid at risk and nuclear stockpile at risk.
A third of these intrusions were "root compromises," the paper found, which means that the hackers gained administrative privileges, giving them wide access to the Energy Department network.
The USA Today investigation also found that 19 of the successful attacks involved the National Nuclear Security Administration, which is responsible for managing the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile.
All this comes in the wake of repeated warnings from auditors about severe vulnerabilities at the Energy Department. Last year, for example, the department's inspector general found that 41 servers and 14 workstations "were configured with default or easily guessed passwords."Read the rest of the story HERE and view a related video below:
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