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- Email preservation standards extremely lax, GAO finds
- Email preservation standards extremely lax, GAO finds.....Can we say DUH! It has been pointed out time and time again that the Bush administration has absolutely no respect for the Constitution nor do they care to adhere to the laws they create. The "we are above the law" mentality and the...
- Tags: preservation standard, Email preservation standard, e-mail, General Accounting Office, U.S. Congress
- Discussion threads 2008-07-10
- Email preservation standards extremely lax, GAO finds
- It just keeps looking like the Bush Administration is intentionally keeping shoddy records to avoid public accountability. After all of the missing White House and RNC emails, including a dearth of messages sent by and to Karl Rove, the Government Accountability Office reports that federal agencies and officials consistently fail...
- Tags: Agency, General Accounting Office, Standards, House, E-mail, Advertising & Promotion, Online Communications, Marketing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-10
- Call for new privacy law
- The Government Accountability Office and privacy experts are calling for a major revamp of the U.S. Privacy Act, which dates from 1974. The GAO released two reports on the situation today, ComputerWorld reports, one calling for new privacy rules and one calling for the Office of Management and Budget to...
- Tags: Information Management, General Accounting Office, Strategy, Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- For sale on eBay: Nuclear biological protection gear and other cool stuff
- eBay auction. Item: F-14 Antenna. Winning bidder: Mahoud A. For sale: Nuclear biological chemical gear. Contact anon1234@craigslist.org eBay auction. Item: Small arms protective inserts. Winning bidder: Hu J. These are just a few of the items the Government Accountability Office discovered for sale on eBay...
- Tags: General Accounting Office, eBay Inc., Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-04-11
- You can keep on asking...
- But you have to ask the right questions. Two senators have sent a letter to 24 US agencies asking them to report on their progress in data protection. This article at Federal Computer Week highlights the woeful state of security compliance at most US agencies. This...
- Tags: Agency, General Accounting Office, Authentication, Advertising & Promotion, Firewalls, Telnet, Security, Marketing, Networking, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2008-02-26
- The federal budget is finally digital
- At 2,200 pages, how many people actually read the whole federal budget the president sends to Congress each year? Definitely not enough to pay for the cost of printing. And more importantly, how can citizens search through it for programs on interest when it's only in print? OK, enough is...
- Tags: Budget, U.S. Congress, General Accounting Office, Printing, OMB, Document Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-01-23
- GAO: Dry runs make radiation-detection tests unreliable
- The Government Accountability Office says that the Department of Homeland Security has been encouraging vendors of new radiation detection equipment to cheat on upcoming tests, The Washington Post reports. Those tests are supposed to determine whether Congress moves forward with $1.2 billion in funding for the machines....
- Tags: Microsoft ASP, Government Accountability Office, U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, General Accounting Office, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-09-18
- GAO: Data breaches rarely lead to identity theft
- GAO: Data breaches rarely lead to identity theftData BreachesThe headline of your article is misleading. The report is actually inconclusive, and admits that links may simply be unknown. A detailed analysis of the report was released at http://www.creditlock.com , and it emphasized several weaknesses of the report, some of which...
- Tags: Data Breaches, General Accounting Office, identity theft
- Discussion threads 2007-07-10
- GAO: Data breaches rarely lead to identity theft
- A study by the Government Accountability Office found that despite the massive number of data breaches, few of them turn into identity theft, reports CNET News.Of 24 major incidents that the GAO studied, only three resulted in identity theft. That includes break-ins at third-party credit card payment processor CardSystems, shoe...
- Tags: Security, GAO
- Blog posts 2007-07-09
- GAO: FBI needs a lesson in network security
- The Federal Bureau of Investigation's internal network security practices are a mess, according to a report by the General Accountability Office. In a report released on Thursday, the GAO said "certain information security controls over the critical internal network reviewed were ineffective in protecting the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of...
- Tags: General, Government, Hardware Infrastructure, IT Management, Software Infrastructure
- Blog posts 2007-05-25
- IRS information systems get 2007 tax season report card
- The tax deadline is April 15, but the General Accountability Office has already given the Internal Revenue Service a preliminary report card. And the results arent half bad considering the IRS implemented a bevy of information systems changes. In a...
- Tags: General, IT Management, Government
- Blog posts 2007-04-06
- GAO rips US-VISIT program, lawmakers are seething
- According to a GAO report PDF released in February, the Department of Homeland Securitys US-VISIT programs costs are spiraling out of control "without any accompanying explanation of the reasons," Wired News reports. Randy Hite, the author of the GAO report, described US-VISIT as a plane flying aimlessly. "Were asking...
- Tags: Government technology, Homeland security, Congress
- Blog posts 2007-02-27
- Agencies fail to comply with FISMA
- Federal agencies are failing to test their IT security controls consistently, a new General Accounting Office report has found, Government Accounting News reports. “Federal agencies have not adequately designed and effectively implemented policies for periodically testing and evaluating information security controls,” the GAO concluded after surveying 24 major agencies...
- Tags: agency, FISMA, General Accounting Office
- Blog posts 2006-11-20
- GAO dings IRS on systems, monitoring
- GAO dings IRS on systems, monitoringDismantle the IRSIt is my opinion that the way taxes are handled in the USA, the deep complexity of IRS regulations and processes, the necessity for most taxpayers to pay consultants to figure out their taxes each year, in short, the inherent unfairness of a...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Internal Revenue Service, tax, regulation, General Accounting Office, monitoring
- Discussion threads 2006-11-17
- GAO dings IRS on systems, monitoring
- Poor coding in the Internal Revenue Services tax records has cost the U.S. government about $2.4 billion in potential collections, according to a General Accountability Office report released Nov. 15. At issue is how the IRS determines what tax payers are routed into the...
- Tags: Taxes, monitoring, Internal Revenue Service, tax, General Accounting Office
- Blog posts 2006-11-16
- GAO IDs 47 weaknesses in how Medicare/Medicaid transmit data
- Medicare and Medicaid systems are so weak that millions of Americans are vulnerable to disclosure of their medical records, the Government Accounting Office warned recently, The Washington Post reports. GAO found 47 weaknesses in the computer systems used by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to send...
- Tags: General Accounting Office, Medicare
- Blog posts 2006-10-04
- GAO: Problems with OMB oversight of IT
- David Powner, director of IT management issues at the Government Accountability Office, is critical of the way the Office of Management and Budget collects information about IT projects, Government Computer News reports. “The watch lists are very valuable because they identify projects that are poorly performing,” Powner said. But...
- Tags: agency, information technology, David Powner, OMB
- Blog posts 2006-07-26
- The EPC Class Structure
- The EPC Tag Class Structure is often misunderstood. 'Class' is not the same as 'Generation'. Class describes a tags basic functionality for example whether it has memory or a battery. Generation refers to a tag specification's major release or version number. The full name for what is popularly called EPC...
- Tags: Generation, Class, Memory, Specification, General Accounting Office, EPC Tag Class Structure, RFID, Wireless, Security, Biometrics
- White papers 2006-07-01
- On heels of VA's giant data breach, White House & GAO review security practices
- On heels of VA's giant data breach, White House & GAO review security practicesAnd Worst Of Allsome of these bills contain privisions to take away from consumers the right to freeze their credit, a right only recently granted to consumers by several states and the single best way of preventing...
- Tags: General Accounting Office, White House, encryption, security
- Discussion threads 2006-06-19
- On heels of VA's giant data breach, White House & GAO review security practices
- According to ComputerWorld, the White House Office of Management and Budget OMB and the Government Accountability Office GAO are jointly looking into the data security practices of the Veterans Administration as well as several other agencies. Recently, a computer containing the personal data of over 26.5 million people was...
- Tags: OMB, FISMA, password
- Blog posts 2006-06-19
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