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Inspector General claims the Park Police are plagued by low morale

2008-02-10 06:46:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...inspector general, the U.S. Park Police may not be properly protecting the Nation's monuments. Even the Fraternal order of Police have appealed for management changes and describe the agency as a "mess A Union survey found that only 2.2% of respondents had confidence in the Chief, Dwight E. Pettiford. When Chief Pettiford was asked about the...
 
Tags: police, park police, chief pettiford, pettiford, properly protect, monuments, properly, chief, inspector
 
 
 
 
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A breach that hits home with 2008 presidential candidates

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2008-03-22 13:16:50 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...inspector general is investigating Evan] The Inspector General job is still vacant. Would you want this job? If so, you may have to call them. I don't see a job description or a posting on Monster.com State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said the violations of McCain and Clinton's passport files were not discovered until Friday, after...
 
Tags: stanley subcontractor employees, subcontractor employees, subcontractor, confidential information, information, information security, stanley, personal information, employees
 
 
 
 
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Social Security Administration lists live people in the Death Master File

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2008-07-07 08:44:12 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...inspector general has determined Evan] "The DMF is a publicly available database maintained by SSA that contains detailed information on more than 82 million deceased numberholders. Each year, SSA receives death reports for more than 2.5 million individuals and adds the information to the DMF. " (Source: SSA Inspector General AUDIT REPORT...
 
Tags: information, secure information, social security, social security administration, personal information, information online, dmf information, death master file, ssa
 
 
 
 
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FAA Badges Missing

2008-03-11 11:14:43 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...inspector badges have been stolen or lost in the past five years. The credentials are one of the few forms of identification that give complete and unfettered access to airport facilities, including the cockpits of planes in flight The FAA badge is probably of all the badges just as dangerous if not more so than any other," aviation expert...
 
Tags: faa badge, badge, person free access, access, airport, airport facilities, badges, airline, commercial pilot
 
 
 
 
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Stealth Fighter Security 'May Have Been Compromised'

2008-05-01 20:00:00 by Danger Room in Wired Security
 
The Defense Department hasn't kept close enough watch over the contractors working on its most important aircraft program, the Joint Strike Fighter. And as a result, "the advanced aviation and weapons technology for the JSF program may have been compromised," the Department of Defense's Inspector General notes in a newly-unearthed report
 
Tags: defense, defense department, department, joint strike fighter, weapons technology, aircraft program, jsf program, contractors, report
 
 
 
 
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London's Cameras Don't Reduce Crime

2008-05-07 06:53:36 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Inspector Mick Neville, the officer in charge of the Metropolitan police unit. "CCTV was originally seen as a preventative measure," Neville told the Security Document World Conference in London. "Billions of pounds has been spent on kit, but no thought has gone into how the police are going to use the images and how they will be used in...
 
Tags: cctv, cctv cameras, cameras, cctv images, police, metropolitan police unit, images, senior police officer, officer
 
 
 
 
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Secret Data in FBI Wiretap Audit Revealed With Ctrl+C

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2008-05-21 02:09:59 by Dave Lewis in Liquidmatrix Security Digest
...Inspector Generals office had failed to adequately obfuscate data in a March report (.pdf) about FBI payments to telecoms to make their legacy phone switches comply with 1995 wiretapping rules. That report detailed how the FBI had finished spending its allotted $500 million to help telephone companies retrofit their old switches to make them...
 
Tags: fbi, supposedly sensitive information, report, government report, sensitive, information, law enforcement act, telephone companies retrofit, march report
 
 
 
 
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Govt Earns C On Computer Security Report Card

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2008-05-20 22:46:23 by Dave Lewis in Liquidmatrix Security Digest
...inspector generals to the White House for fiscal year 2007 There are a couple bright spots. The DOJ, SSA, EPA and the GSA were among eight agencies that managed to score an A on their report card. They get to go to McDonalds But, the NRC gets no hot apple pie with their happy meal Article Link
 
Tags: government, government reform, report card, federal government, hot apple pie, agency inspector generals, agencies, couple bright spots, nuclear regulatory commission
 
 
 
 
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Pentagon Watchdogs Swamped by Military Spending: $152 Billion a Year

2008-05-27 21:00:00 by Threat Level in Wired Security
 
The Pentagon's internal watchdogs can't keep up with the explosive growth in military spending. Which means $152 billion's worth of contracts annually isn't being reviewed for fraud, abuse and criminal interference by the Defense Department's Inspector General
 
Tags: internal watchdogs, pentagon, explosive growth, military, billion, criminal interference, defense department, fraud, worth
 
 
 
 
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Senators want criminal prosecutions of passport snoopers

2008-07-10 00:00:00 by Grant Gross in Network World on Security