The Inspector General (IG) of the Interior Department (DoI) told a House panel on Wednesday that an audit it did of the department’s information technology controls found inadequate defense-in-depth measures at three bureaus and nearly 3,000 “critical and high-risk vulnerabilities in hundreds of publicly accessible computers” that these bureaus operate.“If exploited, these vulnerabilities would allow a remote hacker to take control of publicly accessible computers or render them unavailable,” Mary Kendall, the IG, said at a joint subcommittee meeting of…
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