The Homeland Security Department’s internal computer network generated 65 million security alerts during a three-month period and 6.5 million of those may be linked to employees accessing pornographic words or materials, according to a report today from DHS inspector general Richard Skinner.
Nearly three-quarters of the automated “security event messages” and “detect.misuse.porn” alerts originated from 16 devices on the department’s wide area network, according to the report. However, DHS could not identify the specific workstations that had generated the messages, the inspector general found.
…The security warnings are generated automatically by network security tools and are intended to help secure IT systems and detect hacking attempts and viruses.
Porn activity detected at DHS (maybe) (Washington Technology, via Sploid)
DHS reports, in case the article goes away:
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