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| TVA Security Lapses Could Endanger US Health, Economy              |
|   from the tva-flooded-my-grandmother’s-birthplace dept.           |
|   posted by timothy on Thursday May 22, @16:03 (Security)          |
|   http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/22/1951215 |
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[0]coondoggie links to a Network World story about [1]myriad security
flaws (described in a report from the Governmental Accountability Office)
at all levels of the Tennessee Valley Authority, the country’s largest
public power utility, excerpting: “The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
is a federal corporation that generates power using 52 fossil, hydro and
nuclear facilities in an area of about 80,000 square miles and has not
fully implemented appropriate security practices to protect the control
systems used to operate its critical infrastructures, the GAO concluded.
TVA’s corporate network infrastructure and its control systems networks
and devices at individual facilities and plants reviewed were vulnerable
to disruptions that could endanger a good portion of the country’s
economic security and public health and safety, the GAO said.” The TVA is
hardly alone, though, when it comes to governmental computer security.
Reader [2]bc90021 points out the Federal Government’s newly released
[3]Computer Security Report Card (prepared for Congressman Tom Davis),
which “breaks down the agencies and assigns them all a grade. There are
plenty of Fs, not the least of which is for the [4]newly reconnected
Department of the Interior.”

Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/05/22/1951215

Links:
0. mailto:mcooney [Email address: mcooney #AT# nww.com - replace #AT# with @ ]
1. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/28031
2. http://bc90021atbc90021dotnet/
3. http://reclaimliberty.org/2008/05/21/federal-computer-security-report-card/
4. http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/21/2211201&tid=95