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Subject: [ISN] Pentagon Farmed Out Its Coding to Russia
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews ! org>
Date: 2015-11-05 11:06:41
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/11/04/pentagon-farmed-out-its-coding-to-russia.html
By Patrick Malone
Center for Public Integrity
11.04.15
The Pentagon was tipped off in 2011 by a longtime Army contractor that
Russian computer programmers were helping to write computer software for
sensitive U.S. military communications systems, setting in motion a
four-year federal investigation that ended this week with a
multimillion-dollar fine against two firms involved in the work.
The contractor, John C. Kingsley, said in court documents filed in the
case that he discovered the Russians' role after he was appointed to run
one of the firms in 2010. He said the software they wrote had made it
possible for the Pentagon's communications systems to be infected with
viruses.
Greed drove the contractor to employ the Russian programmers, he said in
his March 2011 complaint, which was sealed until late last week. He said
they worked for one-third the rate that American programmers with the
requisite security clearances could command. His accusations were denied
by the firms that did the programming work.
"On at least one occasion, numerous viruses were loaded onto the DISA
[Defense Information Systems Agency] network as a result of code written
by the Russian programmers and installed on servers in the DISA secure
system," Kingsley said in his complaint, filed under the federal False
Claims Act in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., on March 18, 2011.
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