The Interior Department OIG clearly had some fun hacking the agency’s Wi-Fi networks
While multibillion-dollar companies hire expensive outside experts to conduct elaborate mock-raids on their networks, federal agencies tend to rely on their inspectors general for that. But a new report from the Department of Interior’s watchdog would make any crack team of corporate security-testers proud. To test the hundreds of wireless security networks at the DOI, inspector general (IG) investigators surreptitiously used cheap hacking tools from publicly accessible areas to intercept and decrypt communications in multiple bureaus at the sprawling department. They found systematic weakness in the department’s security that a malicious hacker could have exploited to steal data. “The department’s failure to securely configure wireless networks has put its wireless and internal networks at high risk of compromise,” IG investigators said in a report published Wednesday. The IG’s mock attacks — which weren’t noticed by either physical security guards or IT staff — were “highly successful,” the watchdog said. In one instance, […]
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