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- What's the hurry? You can still see Miami from the plane.
- GAO calls for national strategy to cope with effects of global warming. by Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-31
- GAO report: NASA at 'high risk' of data breach
- What kind of 'sensitive data' would they have?I mean, I don't think that they are still working on experimental planes for the DoD, are they?Well...NASA has done, and continues to do some pretty freaky stuff. Also, lest you forget, they're big into big/fast rockets, and they are the people who...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-20
- GAO report: NASA at 'high risk' of data breach
- An audit of the space agency's computer systems found weaknesses in several critical areas, especially in the way NASA implemented access controls like user accounts, passwords and the encryption of sensitive data. by Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- GAO News Reader 1.6.3 (Mobile)
- Government Accountability Office GAO News Reader grabs the top stories from the GAO and delivers them to your iPhone or iTouch. The news feeds covers long version: reports and testimonies, long version: legal decisions and opinions, short version: reports and testimonies, and short version: legal decisions and opinions. It features...
- Software downloads 2009-08-25
- The sky is failing; GAO warns GPS satellite program needs funding and leadership
- The sky is failing; GAO warns GPS satellite program needs funding and leadershipmake the GPS manufactures pay a license fee/deviceit's like using the roads...RE: The sky is failing; GAO warns GPS satellite program needs funding and leadershipHow about charging a license fee to those who don't pay taxes to maintain...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-20
- The sky is failing; GAO warns GPS satellite program needs funding and leadership
- Some of the most popular Christmas gifts the last couple of years were personal navigation devices providing GPS data to consumers. Just about every smartphone today comes with a GPS receiver and different applications that support mapping and navigation. Location-based applications are also becoming more and more popular as GPS...
- Blog posts 2009-05-20
- New GAO Team Counts on SAS for Information Sharing
- Since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, many government agencies have been refocusing their resources to improve homeland security. While this work primarily involves intelligence, defense and law enforcement agencies, a new team within the Government Accountability Office GAO has formed to address the overall context of national preparedness. The challenge...
- Case studies 2009-01-01
- E-waste regs are way too lax, GAO says
- Greenpeace A new Government Accountability Office report slams the EPA for its "low priority" on e-waste. EPA regs only cover old cathode-ray tube TVs and monitors, John Stephenson, environmental director for GAO told a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee, News.com reports. Not only are the EPA...
- Blog posts 2008-09-18
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Blog posts 2007-02-27
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