Security News > 1999 > October > DOE oblivious to security issues, top officials say

http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9910/25/doe.apathy.idg/index.html From: "James J. Capone" DOE oblivious to security issues, top officials say (IDG) -- The former director of the Energy Department's Office of Safeguards and Security today outlined for Congress years of cybersecurity problems at the nation's nuclear weapons laboratories, claiming officials were aware of ongoing espionage but failed to do anything about it. Edward McCallum, the former chief of DOE security who is now detailed to the Defense Department as the Pentagon's acting director of the Combating Terrorism Technology Support Office, said DOE officials "knew our greatest secrets were being stolen and . . . did nothing about it." [snip..] ISN is sponsored by Security-Focus.COM

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