http://www.fiercegovernmentit.com/story/federal-air-marshal-blackberries-risk-says-dhs-oig/2011-08-22 By David Perera FierceGovernmentIT August 22, 2011 Servers supporting the Blackberry devices used by federal air marshals have high-risk vulnerabilities thanks to a backlog of security patches, says the Homeland Security Department inspector general. In a redacted report dated July 29 not posted online until Aug. 22, the DHS OIG says scans of Federal Air Marshall Service Blackberry enterprise servers turned up a number of vulnerabilities, the total number being undisclosed to the public. Transportation Security Administration officials (the air marshal service is part of the TSA) told auditors a backlog of server patches built up thanks to a recent switch in infrastructure providers that caused the previous patch testing environment to be unavailable. The backlog is being addressed, the report states. [...] _____________________________________________________________ Register now for the #HITB2011KUL - Asia's premier deep-knowledge network security event now in it's 9th year! http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2011kul/Received on Wed Aug 24 2011 - 00:56:26 PDT
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