NSA Claims Snowden Used High Officials' Login Creds

[ThunderRd]

The National Security Agency (NSA) is the font of information security wisdom for the US defense and intelligence communities. But apparently, the NSA's own network security is so weak that a single administrator was able to hijack the credentials of a number of NSA employees with high-level security clearances and use them to download data from the agency's internal networks. That administrator was Edward Snowden.
More here: http://arstechnica.com/information-...-nsa-finds-snowden-hijacked-officials-logins/

 

[booman]

Billions of dollars every year for security and the contractors don't even keep their own standard of security. If someone can hack into NSA, how are we secure?

 

[Daniel~]

When asked by the press to see the e-mail evidence of Snowden's treason the NSA replied that they couldn't not find them as they don't have a search-able data base... You know like the one we use... and they are worried that Snowden will reveal secrets? If I were Russia and China I'd be pissed that Snowden told the world what they already knew..."Just walk in and take what you like!"