Environmental Protection Agency Computer Security Deemed Faulty.(chemical industry officials demand investigation)(Government Activity)(Brief Article)

Chemical Market Reporter, February, 2000 by HESS, GLENN

CHEMICAL INDUSTRY officials are asking the Environmental Protection Agency to determine whether any of the hundreds of billions of dollars of sensitive business information American companies provide the agency each year has been compromised by attacks on the EPA's computer system. The General Accounting Office (GAO) recently conducted a test of the EPA's computer firewall system, which is designed to keep unauthorized users out of the most sensitive areas of the agency's computer network.

According to House Commerce Committee Chairman Thomas Bliley (R-Va.), who ordered the security review, the GAO was able to penetrate and take over, the EPA system, gain access to sensitive business information and learn the passwords of a number of agency...

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