Federal government struggles against cyberattacks
By Martha Mendoza ASSOCIATED PRESS NOVEMBER 10, 2014 The Boston Globe TweetShareWhatsApp
NEW YORK - A $10-billion-a-year effort to protect sensitive government data, from military secrets to Social Security numbers, is struggling to keep pace with an increasing number of cyberattacks and is unwittingly being undermined by federal employees and contractors.
Workers scattered across more than a dozen agencies, from the Defense and Education departments to the National Weather Service, are responsible for at least half of the federal cyberincidents reported each year since 2010, according to an Associated Press analysis of records.
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