CISA broke into US federal agency, wasn't spotted for months

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https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/12/cisa_broke_into_fed_agency/

Red team exercise revealed a score of security fails

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idiomaddict@feddit.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

The team found a password file left from a previous employee on an open, administrative IT share, which contained plaintext usernames and passwords for several privileged service accounts

That’s not going to be a fun meeting.

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