New estimates suggest that international criminal outfits are stealing hundreds of billions of dollars from the US government every year. One of the major goals of the second Trump administration has been to cut what it perceives as government waste thousands of jobs or federal funding programs, for example. It has not gone so smoothly, and it has caused a lot of furors, but there is one non-partisan area the government might consider applying its resources, if the goal is to save money. In A
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Efforts by the US DHS, Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to address cybersecurity issues faced significant criticism this week from government watchdogs, members of Congress and regulated companies. A US Government Accountability Office (GAO) report last week said four of the six cybersecurity recommendations made to TSA since 2018 have still not been addressed, including one centered around the agency’s efforts to protect companies from ransomware. “For example, in January 2024, GA
According to a recent US report, nearly 60% of the cyber security recommendations made by the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) since 2010 have yet to be implemented by federal agencies. The Office unveiled the figures in a release on 16 January 2023, adding that out of 335 public recommendations, 190 still needed to be implemented. "Until these are fully implemented, federal agencies will be more limited in their ability to protect private and sensitive data entrusted to them," GAO re
