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40% of Government Websites FAILED mandatory security update

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    tpatt100tpatt100 Member Posts: 2,991 ■■■■■■■■■□
    Not surprised from personal work experience but also not surprised if this applies to the private sector as well.
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    EveryoneEveryone Member Posts: 1,661
    tpatt100 wrote: »
    Not surprised from personal work experience but also not surprised if this applies to the private sector as well.

    Wouldn't be surprised at all if private sector is actually WORSE.
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    tpatt100tpatt100 Member Posts: 2,991 ■■■■■■■■■□
    Everyone wrote: »
    Wouldn't be surprised at all if private sector is actually WORSE.

    Yeah true, I just know from personal experience that the military lacks the resources to harden systems up. Plenty of people government side, the problem is they hold positions they should not have.
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    ChooseLifeChooseLife Member Posts: 941 ■■■■■■■□□□
    Everyone wrote: »
    Wouldn't be surprised at all if private sector is actually WORSE.
    According to a very recent research by Veracode, government-produced code sucks twice as bad as that made by private sector:

    Study Confirms The Government Produces The Buggiest Software - Forbes
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    SteveLordSteveLord Member Posts: 1,717
    Costs tons of money for major changes or investments that the tax payers would be reluctant to fund. Apparently it would cost Iowa $30 million just to replace the software employees use to do their timesheets. It's a custom app that we login to via a terminal program from the early 90s.
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    undomielundomiel Member Posts: 2,818
    Everyone wrote: »
    Wouldn't be surprised at all if private sector is actually WORSE.

    Considering the open relay I was finally authorized to shutdown after it was harvested and started sending spam I wouldn't be surprised either. The original argument several years back was that since it was on a non-standard port the server was perfectly safe.
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    phantasmphantasm Member Posts: 995
    SteveLord wrote: »
    Costs tons of money for major changes or investments that the tax payers would be reluctant to fund. Apparently it would cost Iowa $30 million just to replace the software employees use to do their timesheets. It's a custom app that we login to via a terminal program from the early 90s.

    How much you want to bet that most of that cost is support and licensing. lol.
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    onesaintonesaint Member Posts: 801
    40% seems to be a hot percentage these days:

    40% of UK businesses breached due to spam
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    whatthehellwhatthehell Member Posts: 920
    Not surprised at all, but still disappointed.
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    SouthSeaPirateSouthSeaPirate Member Posts: 173
    phantasm wrote: »
    How much you want to bet that most of that cost is support and licensing. lol.

    Nailed that one! I could complain for hours about BS licensing and useless support!
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