40% of Government Websites FAILED mandatory security update

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40% of U.S. government Web sites fail security test

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tpatt100

Not surprised from personal work experience but also not surprised if this applies to the private sector as well.

Everyone

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.

tpatt100

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.

ChooseLife

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

SteveLord

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.

undomiel

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.

phantasm

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.

onesaint

40% seems to be a hot percentage these days:

40% of UK businesses breached due to spam

whatthehell

Not surprised at all, but still disappointed.

SouthSeaPirate

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!