The United States is at no risk of being confused for a country with serious cybersecurity defences. Many of the findings are alarming, to put it mildly. https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2021/08/...e-u-s-government-remains-as-hackable-as-ever/
One of the funniest, and most pathetic, things I can recall happened in Los Alamos NM. The Los Alamos National Laboratory - where the atomic bomb was developed, was hacked just a few years ago. The culprits didn't do much to cover their tracks. I don't think they even tried. They were 3 Los Alamos high school seniors who used high school computers to get into the most sensitive and 'highly' secure parts of the Lab database. Nothing was damaged (except pride and ego) and the 3 readily admitted what they did. What makes this funny to me, these kids couldn't work in the computer section of the lab because they weren't college graduates. Yet they broke through every security device the lab had, got through all the safeguards, into the most secret data. No information on what kind of punishment they received. Knowing that place, and knowing that their daddies were probably all scientists at the lab, probably not much happened to them. As for the Federal Govt, it would not surprise me if some sections were still operating on Windows 3.1. There are agencies that, as of a few years ago, couldn't even 'talk' to each other due to obsolete equipment and operating systems.
