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Yet another government agency was found to have substandard cybersecurity measures in place after an internal audit -- worse, it exposed the organization's intelligence network to attacks. According to a late 2014 audit report obtained by
Reuters, around 29 percent of the devices that connect to the US Treasury's Foreign Intelligence Network don't meet federal cybersecurity standards. Some of those are Windows computers that weren't properly configured, preventing the IT division from updating them on time and making sure they were secure. The country's spy agencies tap into that network to add info they want to share with each other and assess and detect international threats to America's economy. They also use it to keep track of what their peers know about militant groups and the effect of sanctions against organizations and countries like Iran and Russia.
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