IDG Contributor Network: Government systems use ancient OSes, have potential to get hacked

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Every now and then a pair of stories come along that seem unrelated, but when you put them together, combined you get a bigger picture than of the two separate parts. Last week saw one such example.

The first was a report from systems security specialist Thales e-Security and 451 Research, which said that 65% of U.S. federal agencies have experienced a data breach at some stage in the past, and 34% experienced one in the last year. Even more alarming, 96% of agencies consider themselves vulnerable to a breach, with 48% stating they are very or extremely vulnerable.

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