Report slams ‘woefully lax’ cyber-security controls at CIA
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Aaron Nicodemus2020-06-18T17:00:00
Cyber-security protections deployed for some of the nation’s most secret data was “woefully lax,” according to a 2017 intelligence brief that detailed shortcomings at the CIA following the agency’s 2016 data breach.
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