The Los Alamos military research establishment in the US
admits it is missing 67 computers.
The US Project On Government Oversight (POGO) pressure group has
obtained an internal memo in which the government overseer of
the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) rebuked the lab for its
handling of the January theft of three computers from the home of
an employee.
"This memo shows that the lab admits that 67 computers are
currently 'missing', and that 13 have been lost or stolen in the
past year alone," said Danielle Brian, executive director of
POGO.
"It is troubling that a contractor only informed the government
of this during investigations into the most recent thefts," she
said.
Additionally, said POGO, the Los Alamos Site Office (LASO)
expressed frustration with LANL's decision to treat the lost
computers merely as a property management issue, and not as a
potential lapse in cyber security.
LANL is also said to have recently lost a BlackBerry smartphone
in a "sensitive foreign country".
POGO is an independent non-profit organisation that investigates
and exposes corruption and other misconduct in US federal
government.
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