Senate Can’t Protect Senators, Staff From Cyber Attacks, Wyden Warns

Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica
Thu, 09/20/2018 - 11:45am

Enlarge / The Senate's IT security team can't protect senators' and staffers' own devices and accounts. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) wants to change that. (credit: Martin Falbisoner / Wikimedia Commons) Sen. Ron Wyden has been a squeaky wheel about the US Senate's weak security posture for a while. In April, the Oregon Democrat raised objections over the lax physical security measures for Senate staff—including ID badges that just have pictures of smart chips like those on other access cards used across government agencies, rather than actual chips, and provide no access controls.

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